How do I update Facebook status from my own website? - php

Question

I have my own site which I am creating a blog/news entries but I want these to upload directly to my Facebook page as I add them.
Is there a simple way to do this?
My code is something like this
<?php
$title = "$_Post['title'];
$article = "$_Post['article'];
// Upload sql and query code code
?>
Is there a code or api I can use to also update to my facebook page

Answer 1

You will need to sign up to become a facebook developer, create an application, and then using the PHP SDK you can do exactly this.
Developers site: http://developers.facebook.com/
PHP SDK: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/php/
Example code:
http://www.masteringapi.com/tutorials/how-to-post-on-facebook-page-as-page-not-as-admin-user-using-php-sdk/31/
<?php
// This code is just a snippet of the example.php script
// from the PHP-SDK <http://github.com/facebook/php-sdk/blob/master/examples/example.php>
require '../src/facebook.php';
// Create our Application instance (replace this with your appId and secret).
$facebook = new Facebook(array(
'appId' => 'app_id',
'secret' => 'app_secret',
));
// Get User ID
$user = $facebook->getUser();
if ($user) {
try {
$page_id = 'page_id';
$page_info = $facebook->api("/$page_id?fields=access_token");
if( !empty($page_info['access_token']) ) {
$args = array(
'access_token' => $page_info['access_token'],
'message' => "I'm a Page!"
);
$post_id = $facebook->api("/$page_id/feed","post",$args);
}
} catch (FacebookApiException $e) {
error_log($e);
$user = null;
}
}
// Login or logout url will be needed depending on current user state.
if ($user) {
$logoutUrl = $facebook->getLogoutUrl();
} else {
$loginUrl = $facebook->getLoginUrl(array('scope'=>'manage_pages,publish_stream'));
}
?>