Facebook API php - Post a news item to a facebook group - php

Question

*strong text*I have a website that publishes articles every day.
I want to have a corresponding Facebook group that I can publish the articles to at the same time as on my site.
I have set up a similar arrangement in twitter using the api. When I publish an article to my site I it automatiaclly posts the headline and link back to twitter via the twitter API. I would like to have a similar arrangement for my facebook group.
Is it possible to have my stories forwarded to my facebook group wall?
EDIT
Ok, I have gotten this far, and no further:
Step 1: Get authorisation to publish to the stream
if ($fp = fopen('https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?client_id=XXXXXXXXXX&client_secret=XXXXXXXXXXXXtype=client_cred&scope=publish_stream', 'r')) {
$content = '';
// keep reading until there's nothing left
while ($line = fread($fp, 1024)) {
$content .= $line;
}
$tokens = explode("access_token=",$content);
// do something with the content here
$auth_token = $tokens[1];
fclose($fp);
} else {
// echo" an error occured when trying to open the specified url";
}
Step 2: send my message to the stream using my authorisation code (I have chosen to use cURL):
$message="This will be a post on my groups wall.";
$url = "https://graph.facebook.com/my_app_id/feed";
$data = array('message' => $message, 'auth_token' => $auth_token);
$handle = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
curl_setopt($curl_handle,CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($curl_handle,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,2);
curl_setopt($curl_handle,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
$buffer = curl_exec($curl_handle);
curl_close($curl_handle);
if (empty($buffer))
{
print "Nothing seems to have happened";
}
else
{
print $buffer;
}
The code runs with no errors, but nothing gets returned and nothing gets posted to the wall
any ideas?

Answer 1

Facebook treats pages similar to the way they treat people, you specify a UID which is associated with the Page ID of your group. Then just use Facebook's Graph API to post to the stream, just as you would a person.
To authorize, you get Facebook API permission from an admin and request the manage_pages permission.
All of the information you need is contained here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/#impersonation.
(Ctrl+F Page Login for more information on authorizing to update to pages).