How To: Post A Message On The User Wall Using Facebook Graph API

From: http://www.masteringapi.com/tutorials/how-to-post-a-message-on-the-user-wall-using-facebook-graph-api/33/

 

This is a quick post to demonstrate how to post a status message on the user wall using the Facebook Graph API. First of all, you need the publish_stream extended permission to perform this action.

 

Using the PHP-SDK

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$args = array(     'message'   => 'Hello from my App!',     'link'      => 'http://www.masteringapi.com/',     'caption'   => 'Visit MasteringAPI.com For Facebook API Tutorials!' ); $post_id = $facebook->api("/me/feed", "post", $args);

Posting a message and a link

In the above example we posted a message and a link using the PHP-SDK.

 

Using the JavaScript-SDK

This is an example of posting a message using the JavaScript SDK taken from the FB.api documentation:

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var body = 'Reading Connect JS documentation'; FB.api('/me/feed', 'post', { message: body }, function(response) {   if (!response || response.error) {     alert('Error occured');   } else {     alert('Post ID: ' + response.id);   } });

 

Notes

Please note that you can still post to a user wall even if the user is not connected to your application and without offline_access permission just by knowing the user id:

publish_stream:
Enables your application to post content, comments, and likes to a user’s stream and to the streams of the user’s friends. With this permission, you can publish content to a user’s feed at any time, without requiring offline_access. However, please note that Facebook recommends a user-initiated sharing model.

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$args = array(     'message'   => 'Hello from app',     'link'      => 'http://www.masteringapi.com/',     'caption'   => 'Visit MasteringAPI.com For Facebook API Tutorials!' ); $post_id = $facebook->api("/$USER_ID/feed", "post", $args);