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  1. POFacebook API php - Post a news item to a facebook group
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    copied!<p>*<em>strong text</em>*I have a website that publishes articles every day. </p> <p>I want to have a corresponding Facebook group that I can publish the articles to at the same time as on my site. </p> <p>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.</p> <p>Is it possible to have my stories forwarded to my facebook group wall? </p> <p><strong>EDIT</strong></p> <p>Ok, I have gotten this far, and no further:</p> <p>Step 1: Get authorisation to publish to the stream</p> <pre><code>if ($fp = fopen('https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?client_id=XXXXXXXXXX&amp;client_secret=XXXXXXXXXXXXtype=client_cred&amp;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"; } </code></pre> <p>Step 2: send my message to the stream using my authorisation code (I have chosen to use cURL):</p> <pre><code> $message="This will be a post on my groups wall."; $url = "https://graph.facebook.com/my_app_id/feed"; $data = array('message' =&gt; $message, 'auth_token' =&gt; $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; } </code></pre> <p>The code runs with no errors, but nothing gets returned and nothing gets posted to the wall</p> <p>any ideas?</p>
 

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