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This package allow to create, update, delete and get posts from facebook page in laravel application

Requirements

• PHP >=7.2
• Laravel >= 6

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require nazmulhasan/laravel-facebook-post

Configuration

You can publish the configuration file config/facebook.php optionally by using the following command:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="NazmulHasan\LaravelFacebookPost\FacebookPostServiceProvider" --tag="config"

Configure .env file

FACEBOOK_PAGE_ID=
FACEBOOK_ACCESS_TOKEN=

Usage

Get All posts

use NazmulHasan\LaravelFacebookPost\Facades\FacebookPost;

$response = FacebookPost::getPost();

Create Text post

use NazmulHasan\LaravelFacebookPost\Facades\FacebookPost;

$message = 'Message from laravel application';

$response = FacebookPost::storePost($message);

Create Text post with photo

use NazmulHasan\LaravelFacebookPost\Facades\FacebookPost;

$message = 'Message from laravel application'; //message is optional
$url = 'Your image url';

$response = FacebookPost::storePostWithPhoto($url, $message);

Update post

use NazmulHasan\LaravelFacebookPost\Facades\FacebookPost;

$message = 'Message from laravel application';
$post_id = 'Your post id';

$response = FacebookPost::updatePost($post_id, $message);

Delete post

use NazmulHasan\LaravelFacebookPost\Facades\FacebookPost;

$post_id = 'Your post id';

$response = FacebookPost::deletePost($post_id);

Example Success Response

array:4 [
  "status" => "success"
  "status_code" => 200
  "message" => "Post created successfully"
  "post_id" => "103408372435470_395802394384938"
]

Example Failure Response

array:3 [
  "status" => "fail"
  "status_code" => 422
  "message" => "Message is required"
]

Limitations

• You can update only the text of a post. Image is not updatable.
• Multiple image upload is not supported.
• Video upload is not supported

How to generate access token?

1. At first create a business type facebook app. Create app from Facebook Deveoper Panel
2. Go to Facebook Graph Api Explorer
3. Here you will see three select option:

• Meta App
• User or Page
• Permissions

1. Meta App: Here you will see all facebook app that you have created. Select your business type app from the dropdown list.
2. User or Page: Here you need to select page access token. Then it will redirect you to your facebook page list. Select your preferred page and give necessary permission.
3. Permissions: Please select the following permission from this permission list

• pages_show_list
• pages_read_engagement
• pages_manage_engagement
• pages_manage_posts
• pages_read_user_content

1. Finally click on the Generate Access Token button and it will generate temporary access token for one hour.

2. If you want to make this token as long lived, you need to go Access Token Debugger. Insert the access token and click on the Debug button. Then it will show token information. Scroll down this page and you will see Extend Access Token. Click on this button and it will generate long lived access token.Then copy the access token and use this as FACEBOOK_ACCESS_TOKEN

Note:

If you want to generate never expiry access token, you need to follow this step:

• Please open an api testing tool like Postman and send a get request by using this url https://graph.facebook.com/v19.0/{app-scoped-user-id}/accounts?access_token={long-lived-user-access-token}. If you want to generate user access token instead of page access token, just select user access token from User or Page section that i have mentioned in step 5.
• Extend expiry date of this user access token as like as page access token extend method that i have mentioned in step 8.
• Then debug this long-lived-user-access-token and you will get app-scoped-user-id from this debug information.
• Finally send get request to this url https://graph.facebook.com/v19.0/{app-scoped-user-id}/accounts?access_token={long-lived-user-access-token}. Now You will get never expiry page access token from this request and use this access token as FACEBOOK_ACCESS_TOKEN

If you face any issue or bug, please create an issue by using this link https://github.com/Nazmul7989/laravel-facebook-post/issues.

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.

See Facebook Page Api for more details

See Facebook Long Lived Access Token for more details