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Vinch
Vinch

Reputation: 1561

Tagging friends in status updates from Facebook API

I recently came across this blog post that said that it's possible to tag someone in a status update from a Facebook app (= from the API):

However, it doesn't seem to work for me.

It tried it in three different ways:

$post = $facebook->api('/me/feed', 'post', array(
    'access_token' => $session['access_token'],
    'message' => 'Hello @[562372646:Lionel Cordier], how are you?'
));

or

$access_token = $session['access_token'];
$message = 'Hello @[562372646:Lionel Cordier], how are you?';
$curl_post = 'access_token='.$access_token.'&message='.$message;
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://graph.facebook.com/me/feed');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $curl_post);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

or

$access_token = $session['access_token'];
$message = 'Hello @[562372646:Lionel Cordier], how are you?';
$curl_post = 'access_token='.$access_token.'&status='.$message;
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://api.facebook.com/method/users.setStatus');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $curl_post);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

But nothing works. The result I have is "Hello @[562372646:Lionel Cordier], how are you?" on my wall.

But if I type "Hello @[562372646:Lionel Cordier], how are you?" directly in Facebook, it works correctly.

What am I doing wrong?

Upvotes: 24

Views: 22490

Answers (5)

waseem
waseem

Reputation: 167

below code worked for me , try if you don't want to show place in post then use the same code i mentioned $params['place']='155021662189'; that code won't show the place in Post

             $params=array();       

             $params['message'] = "Hi Friends ";
             $params['tags']='12345678903,1234567654'; //comma separated friends ID's
             $params['place']='155021662189'; 

             $params['name'] = "Some namee";
             $params['link'] = "http://blaha.com";
             $params['description'] = "blah blah blah blah";
             $params['picture'] = "image link"; 
             $params['caption'] = "Join ";


            $shared=$facebook->api("/".$user['id']."/feed", "post", $params);
                         or 
                    $shared=$facebook->api("/me/feed", "post", $params);

Upvotes: 5

Robarondaz
Robarondaz

Reputation: 555

I was struggling with this problem last week and found the following bug report, which suggests (given the current ASSIGNED status) that it cannot be done yet:(

http://developers.facebook.com/bugs/395975667115722/

Upvotes: 7

maaz
maaz

Reputation: 4493

https://apps.facebook.com/profile_ranking is uploading a picture and you can tag people in pictures not in status messages.

To Tag people in picture

curl -F 'access_token=xxxxxx' -F 'url=https://appharbor.com/assets/images/stackoverflow-logo.png' -F 'message=@[100000891609024:Silient Killerz]' https://graph.facebook.com/me/photos

In Graph Api Explorer
Make the call post, set url to https://graph.facebook.com/me/photos,
Add field with key message and value @[100000891609024:Silient Killerz] (replace it with your friend id and name)
Add another field with key url and value https://appharbor.com/assets/images/stackoverflow-logo.png
click submit

Upvotes: 6

Somnath Muluk
Somnath Muluk

Reputation: 57766

I have tried for hour but I think there needs to add new bug report. It was working year before as posted by Debjit.

You should make bug report to facebook. (If doesn't exist).

Have updated on following posts:

  1. how to tag users in application post of a facebook application
  2. Tagging people in a Facebook Post?
  3. Tagging a user in a wall post/update using Facebook API
  4. How to let users tag their friends in a Facebook status update posted from a tab on a Facebook page?

Upvotes: 2

Debjit
Debjit

Reputation: 69

Yes it is possible in this format: @[{user_id}:1:{name}]

Try this tutorial: http://digitizor.com/2011/01/24/tag-user-facebook-graph/

Upvotes: 6

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