To post as Page not as User, you need the following:
Permissions:
publish_stream
manage_pages
Requirements:
- The page id and
access_token
(can be obtained since we got the required permissions above) - The current user to be an admin (to be able to retrieve the page’s
access_token
) - An
access_token
with long-lived expiration time of one of the admins if you want to do this offline (from a background script)
PHP-SDK Example:
<?php
/**
* Edit the Page ID you are targeting
* And the message for your fans!
*/
$page_id = 'PAGE_ID';
$message = "I'm a Page!";
/**
* 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_info = $facebook->api("/$page_id?fields=access_token");
if( !empty($page_info['access_token']) ) {
$args = array(
'access_token' => $page_info['access_token'],
'message' => $message
);
$post_id = $facebook->api("/$page_id/feed","post",$args);
} else {
$permissions = $facebook->api("/me/permissions");
if( !array_key_exists('publish_stream', $permissions['data'][0]) ||
!array_key_exists('manage_pages', $permissions['data'][0])) {
// We don't have one of the permissions
// Alert the admin or ask for the permission!
header( "Location: " . $facebook->getLoginUrl(array("scope" => "publish_stream, manage_pages")) );
}
}
} 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'));
}
// ... rest of your code
?>
Here the connected $user
is supposed to be the admin.
Result:
More in my tutorial