how send message facebook friend through graph api using Accessstoken

Question

Can anyone help me to send message to facebook friends using graph api.

I tried

$response = $facebook->call_api("/me/feed", "post", "to=john","message=You have a Test message");

It's not working. I have the accesstoken of the user in my hand.only I am confused on sending process.

Solution 1

You can't send messages using a Facebook application. You used to be able to do that, but the (predictable?) colossal amount of abuse led to the revocation of this ability.

Provided Alice, your user, has given you the necessary extended permissions, you have the following options:

• Post to Alice's wall on her behalf
• Send email to Alice
• Create events on behalf of Alice
  • invite Bob (not your user) to said events
• Issue a request/invitation on behalf of Alice to Bob
• Issue a request from the App to Alice

Solution 2

You could open the Send Dialog in a popup.

 $parameters = array(
    'app_id' => $facebook->getAppId(),
    'to' => $facebookUserId,
    'link' => 'http://google.nl/',
    'redirect_uri' => 'http://my.app.url/callback'
 );
 $url = 'http://www.facebook.com/dialog/send?'.http_build_query($parameters);
 echo '<script type="text/javascript">window.open('.json_encode($url).', ...

For detailed options see: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/dialogs/send/

Solution 3

$attachment =  array(

    'access_token' => $access_token,
    'message'      => $msg,
    'name'         => $name,
    'link'         => $link,
    'description'  => $desc,
);

facebook->api('/'.$uesr_id.'/feed', 'POST', $attachment);

Solution 4

Technically you can do feed or cross feed post with privacy settings that allows only the feed owner to see the post but its not really sending a message to a person.

Solution 5

You will need to integrate xmpp chat to reply a message and to write a new message.

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Comments

[qasimzee]

Thanks a lot bob. I was exactly looking for this. This even helps in pre-populating message fields so it's so easy to send an invitation link to my app using this dialog.

[Somnath Muluk]

This will post message on $uesr_id's wall.

[Michael Mior]

Note that you can't send email to Bob from Alice (a message from Alice to Bob appears to be the OP's goal)

[Julio Santos]

Well... one could play with the to field ;) But no, you can't. Hence it not being listed.

[CyberJunkie]

Is there a way to bypass the send dialog popup and send the message directly via url?

[lomse]

@SomnathMuluk This does not work anymore cause it is deprecated!

[Somnath Muluk]

@Lomse: Yes... It's deprecated on Feb 2013.

[John Erck]

Here's the link saying you can't get friends' email addresses: developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/login/email-permissio‌​ns

[tusharmath]

links to documentation please?

[Sajuna Fernando]

I know this was answered sometime back. But how do i get my hands on a white label domain? Do you know which criteria fb uses to determine spoofing?

[Rajat Gupta]

could you have multiple userIds specified by app in the to field ?

[user1349663]

This didn't work for me :( Unfortunate, considering how easy it is

[sulaiman sudirman]

Facebook has discontinued this since last February, it will forward to your real email instead. forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/02/25/…

[lephleg]

'Issue a request/invitation on behalf of Alice to Bob' how can someone do this from backend?