Facebook status update through php

Question

I want to develop a bot which will update the status of a facebook account using php.

Please guide me on this

Prescriptible

Check this question #875012 – Cordeelia

This bot already exists: it connects to facebook, performs the login and then sets the status. You can find it here: > barattalo.it/2010/03/01/php-curl-bot-to-update-facebook-status – Assess

Answer 1

@Porkchop is correct, you will probably need the Facebook Connect API. To update a users status on Facebook, you should look at the Status.set API call.

For coding a googletalk bot in php there are some articles that should get you started:

• Twitter PHP Jabber Bot Tutorial
• Jabber Simple - A PHP library

But also consider using IMified, which does a lot of the work of creating and running chat bots for you.

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If all you are interested in is a simple way to update your Facebook status from you Google Talk status, you probably don't need to go to all that work - just install the 'Google Talk Status Synchronizer' facebook application.

Tymes

Answer 2

You could hire somebody to do it for cheap by outsourcing it, i mean thats what i do when i dont know code.

Gyrostatic

Answer 3

Since you are coding in PHP, I recommend using Jaxl (Jabber XMPP Library). It supports bot authentication using X-FACEBOOK-PLATFORM and updating facebook status should be a one line task using the library. http://github.com/abhinavsingh/JAXL

Kosher