i feel so frustrated, since i have been looking for this all day, from hundreds of sites and with my accumulated frustration i´m not making my life easier.
My problem is this.. i have made an app for facebook in php, and now i want to put a button there that when people press it, it would send a post to their time line, with the permissions and all. I have seen a lot of things and have not been able to help my self, í´m almost having a stroke with this. Can some one please help me?????
Facebook has decent documentation. Besides the overall reference mentioned in the comment, start here:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/php/gettingstarted/
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/php/howto/postwithgraphapi
Be sure to create a Facebook app to get the App ID that you'll need to configure the Facebook object.
The part of the code that does the actual post is this:
$facebook->api('/me/feed', 'POST',
array(
'link' => 'www.example.com',
'message' => 'Posting with the PHP SDK!'
));
I know you mentioned doing this with PHP. I have created similar functionality in a PHP app (post to a user's wall when clicking a button), but I used the Javascript API, so it's invoked client-side. There is similar documentation for the Javascript API by Facebook. Just a thought.
If you are getting specific errors, please post them and you'll get more specific answers.
i was able to do something similar to what i wanted with the search parameters from the help you provided.
I found this tutorial and with a little tweaking i managed to do something. I will leave the link to the tutorial below so it can help some one in the future.
http://25labs.com/tutorial-integrate-facebook-connect-to-your-website-using-php-sdk-v-3-x-x-which-uses-graph-api/
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I have managed to grab data from Reddit easily, displaying all links that users have submitted to a sub-reddit. What I want to achieve now though is to allow users of my site to login to reddit, and post to that sub-reddit from my site.
How would I achieve this using PHP?
I have searched the web everywhere and cannot seem to find anything that can help me. I am a begginer a PHP so it's quite confusing at times.
If there is an article explaining exactly what I want, I would be grateful if you could link me to it :)
Thank you!
EDIT: Documentation here; http://www.reddit.com/dev/api
I'd recomment to use/look into this opensource project on github (not my project). It uses curl to communicate and it might even be enough for you.
Another option would be to look into httpRequest::send and simply send your post variables with this method. This is if you like things to be more lowlevel.
The reddit api basically tells you what post parameters you need for which action
So a while back I used to use the twitter json search in one of my apps but it seems since the change in API versions there has been some major changes which even after reading the documentation I still can't get my head around and it really doesn't make it very easy to understand so hopefully one of you tech guys out there can help me out.
I want to clean my application up so it works again in plainly doing the following:-
http://search.twitter.com/search.json?
q='+param+'&
rpp=100&
result_type=recent&
lang=en
Obviously with the changes this is no longer possible but I want to be able to do this again using the new address but in JQuery unless someone can suggest either a tutorial or a piece of code or even a link to a topic where I could get my answer. I'm also open to using PHP as this is what I used at one point with searching Facebook's timeline and you can get an access token using $.get() for Facebook so surely it would be the same with Twitter too?
Any advice/code is welcome.
Thanks!
the search API needs authorization now. I'd say that, first off, you need to call the https url not http.
With Abhramam William's library you'd do something like the following, after having received your app's bearer token:
$your_tweets = $connection->get("https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json?q=from:grey_mina&result_type=recent&count=5");
I want to update a no_comments row in a database exactly when a facebook comment on my site is made. I would like to do the same thing for likes as well.
I can imagine setting up a cron job that uses the graph API to periodically retrieve the number of comments and likes and update the database but for a large number of objects that are associated with comments the lag introduced is undesirable.
I am not looking for someone to "code a solution" for me...rather can someone point me in the right direction: is it possible to use AJAX to somehow update the database at the point when a comment is made or a like is done?
I can see how one can use the click event for the like button but it's not fool proof...
All help is appreciated!
Assuming you are using Oauth and have a facebook application then I would consult the facebook API docs for events or triggers. If a method exists it will be in the API docs.
Your description of your "site" is vague so it is hard to understand what your site or how it connects to facebook.
Edit:
I wish people would explain down votes. I can't fix it if I don't know what the issue was.
I followed my own advice and searched for this "facebook run script when like is clicked" on Google and found this: enter link description here This is almost the same question except it deals with "like" buttons rather than comments.
You can generate "events" like I had previously suggested. So further consultation of the FB API may be the most fruitful way of finding out if there are events around "comments" as well as "likes".
Maybe the OP knows this, but there are several APIs (last time I checked) to facebook including Javascript methods that could be used in an Ajax manner. However, without further details of their website implementation there is no way to tell.
I have a PHP based website which has a post/comment system. Can I add a checkbox to my post function so that if it is checked the post will be published to Facebook as well as my own website at the same time?
I have looked through the docs on facebook and I saw a comment plugin, but it's not really what I am looking for.
I would appreciate a tutorial, links, code, or just general help.
If you're looking for a way to replicate the auto-posting functionality in the fb:comments plugin, the only way to accomplish that is asking the users to install an app. By using the sandboxed fb:comments social plugin, Facebook controls the user experience, so users can post to their wall without an install. If you use your own method though, you'll need to require an install (and publish_stream permissions).
I'd recommend using fb:comments if at all possible, since that creates less friction for your users and will be a more familiar experience for them. If you wish to do something with the comment as it's added, you can subscribe to the comment.create event.
May be you can use the Feed Dialog have a look: http://bit.ly/rQWC36
You can launch the dialog if the checkbox is checked, after submit the comments form.
Or may be you can use the OpenGraph API versión of the feed dialog, look for the section: "Graph API Equivalent" documentation doesn't sais nothing about permission on using that dialog this way. I hope it helps.
I am still unsure of what you are looking for but still facebook api is a good place to start off. A part from that, the checkboxes and automatically going to facebook that you have referred will be done according to your language/framework which you have not illustrated.
Currently I am building a small application that allows a user to sign in to their Facebook account and update their status from within the application.
However, the Facebook API does not seem well documented and I am having trouble locating sources of information that are relevant to the specific project that I am building.
Does anyone know of any articles that might be of use to me?
Thank you.
The documentation is there, scattered around and difficult to find, but there. These two links may help if you are looking to post to someone's wall. FB.ui is sort of a multi-purpose call that will present different dialogs, prompting the user for action. It's far easier to implement than it is find.
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/javascript/
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/javascript/fb.ui/