Share facebook event to my wall

facebook, facebook-php-sdk, facebook-wall

Solution

This:

$facebook->api('/me/feed', 'post', array(
   'link' => 'https://www.facebook.com/events/event id/'
));

doesn't work? All of the other info should be available for facebook.

Edit

I have no idea why simply sharing the event does not work. Even when supplying the info, the image can not be loaded (as you wrote) with a message saying the pics served from the fb CDNs can't be shared.

I have two possible workarounds for you though:

1) You can ask for the event info using the api and then publish that, for example with the js sdk:

FB.api("EVENT_ID", function(response) {
    FB.ui({
        method: "feed",
        link: "http://www.facebook.com/events/EVENT_ID/",
        name: response.name,
        description: response.description
    });
});

As for the image, since you are doing it on your servers then you can download the image (`https://graph.facebook.com/EVENT_ID/picture?type=large`), store it on your server and then add it to the post.

2) According to the Invited connection of the Event object:

You can invite users to an event by issuing an HTTP POST to /EVENT_ID/invited/USER_ID. You can invite multiple users by issuing an HTTP POST to /EVENT_ID/invited?users=USER_ID1,USER_ID2,USER_ID3. Both of these require the create_event permission and return true if the invite is successful.

So with that you can invite the friends to the event directly. I know it's not the same, but it might be better than nothing, depending on what you need this for.

I recommend that you open a bug report on the Bugs system.

Problem

I can't seem to get the picture of the event, and it also gives me a fatal error trying to connect to the event image. Can I share an (already created) event (not create one, just link to it - with a picture and description) and post it to my wall? He is what I already have: ``` $facebook->api('/me/feed', 'post', array( 'message' => 'event test', 'link' => 'https://www.facebook.com/events/event id/', 'picture' => 'https://www.facebook.com/events/event id/',//produces an error 'name' => 'event test', 'caption' => '', 'description' => 'event desc', )); ```

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