How to send an event to a Facebook fan page using the PHP SDK and graphics API?

Question

The following code works, but it raises an event as the current page administrator. I need him to post the event to the fan page itself. FYI: permission was granted to my application: manage_pages

 <?php // Initialize a Facebook instance from the PHP SDK $config = array( 'appId' => FACEBOOK_APP_ID, 'secret' => FACEBOOK_APP_SECRET, 'cookie' => false, 'scope' => 'manage_pages,create_event' ); $facebook = new Facebook($config); $access_token = $facebook->getAccessToken(); $page_id = 'XXXXXXXXXXXX'; // Now, getting the PAGE Access token, using the user access token $page_token_url = "https://graph.facebook.com/$page_id?fields=access_token&" . $access_token; $response = file_get_contents($page_token_url); // Parse the return value and get the Page access token $resp_obj = json_decode($response,true); $page_access_token = $resp_obj['access_token']; // Declare the variables we'll use to demonstrate // the new event-management APIs $event_id = 0; $event_name = "New Event API Test Event"; $event_start = time() + rand(1, 100) * rand(24, 64) * 3600; $event_privacy = "SECRET"; // We'll make it secret so we don't annoy folks. // We'll create an event in this example. // We'll need create_event permission for this. $params = array( 'name' => $event_name, 'start_time' => $event_start, 'privacy_type' => $event_privacy, 'access_token' => $page_access_token, 'page_id' => $page_id //where $page_id is the ID of the page you are managing ); // Create an event $ret_obj = $facebook->api("/$page_id/events", 'POST', $params); if(isset($ret_obj['id'])) { // Success $event_id = $ret_obj['id']; printMsg('Event ID: ' . $event_id); } else { printMsg("Couldn't create event."); } // Convenience method to print simple pre-formatted text. function printMsg($msg) { echo "<pre>$msg</pre>"; } ?> 

Answer 1

The answer is here: Facebook API PHP, posting events on the page

Copied below for convenience:

It seems to me that you need the access_token page, and here is how you get it:

 $page_id = "XXXXXXXXX"; $page_access_token = ""; $result = $facebook->api("/me/accounts"); foreach($result["data"] as $page) { if($page["id"] == $page_id) { $page_access_token = $page["access_token"]; break; } } 

Make sure you grant manage_pages permission and add access_token to the $ event_info array.