I'm creating a wall post on a fanpage where i do specify the message, url, url name, caption, description and the photho thumb of the url in question.
I did notice that Facebook uses my img url directly. Meaning if i delete it from my server, the image on the post will disapear.
It seams that if i create a post with a custom image i will have to host it for life - other whise i will have many posts with broken images.
It is possible to tell FB to get a copy of the image in question?
I had the same problem few weeks ago - and unfortunately there is no way to use picture hosted on FB servers. I tried giving URL of user's photo, etc - nothing works until you host it externally.
So either "host it for life" on your server, or use Flick or other similar image-hosting servers.
Not sure if this is what you want, but if you actually post the image to FB, then FB is hosting it. You can see the different post types here:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/page/#post_types
We chose "photos" because "links" didn't show image very large.
$api_call = '' . $network['network_id'] . '/photos'; //network_id is the page id
$attachment = array(
'access_token' => $network['network_token'], //access token
'source' => "@" . $image['image_path'], //must be actual path to image
'message' => $campaign['textresponse'],
);
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,'https://graph.facebook.com/' . $api_call);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 2);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $attachment);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); //to suppress the curl output
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
echo "<br>";
return $result; //returns the post number as json string
I think it is possible to upload the photos to an album in the fan-page, and then you can use uploaded image properties for you wall post message.
