From Processwire to Facebook

[Manol]

Hello guys.

     I would like some help on where to start to create a button that publishes from a processwire page ( title, text and image ) to the facebook wall.

     The idea is that the user writes some news in a processwire page and then  I will  use  the facebook api graph to publish on that user's wall.

    My idea was to develop a module to make it as reusable as possible ( and include google+ and tweeter ).

    I've got some ideas on how to do it, but maybe some of you have done something similar or face problems I haven't think about yet that could help.

Thank you.

[adrian]

The easy way out would be to generate an RSS feed of PW pages:

http://modules.processwire.com/modules/markup-rss/

http://modules.processwire.com/modules/markup-rssenhanced/

and push them to FB, Twitter etc using any number of services:

https://dlvr.it/

https://hootsuite.com/

or my current favorite - IFTTT

https://ifttt.com/recipes/search?q=rss+to+facebook&ac=false

https://ifttt.com/recipes/search?q=rss+to+twitter&ac=false

[Martijn Geerts]

If you want to push an image to you better use the enhanced as that one support enclosures. (images, files)

[Manol]

Hello.

  I've created a rss template and is working, now I'm trying to push those to facebook with IFTTT https://ifttt.com/re...cebook&ac=false

https://ifttt.com/re...witter&ac=false but  results aren't triggering, I pasted the url directly into the browser but no changes at all.

 

Thank you.

[adrian]

Sorry, when you say:

but  results aren't triggering, I pasted the url directly into the browser but no changes at all.

do you mean that the rss feed itself is not updating, or that IFTTT is not sending the changes to FB?

[Manol]

Hi Adrian.

    I used the enhanced rss module, created a template with this code:

• $rss = $modules->get("MarkupRSSEnhanced");

• $items = $pages->find("limit=10, sort=-modified"); // $items, PageArray of Pages
• $rss = $modules->get("MarkupRSSEnhanced"); // load the module
• $rss->render($items);

and when I call the a page creates with that template htt://mypage/rss I can see the xml, but IFTTT doesn't  detect the changes. I think I'm missing some very basic stuff.

[Martijn Geerts]

@Manol,

Regarding the Feed Module:

1. Could you validate your feed. It should say: "Congratulations!"

2. It can be that the ttl (time to live) is to high. 

[Manol]

Hi Martijn

It says congratullations and also:

This feed is valid, but interoperability with the widest range of feed readers could be improved by implementing the following recommendations.

• line 31, column 0: Missing atom:link with rel="self"

 

     <link>http://casergi.com/noticias/comida-de-empresa-para-navidad/</link>

    <guid>http://casergi.com/noticias/comida-de-empresa-para-navidad/</guid>

    </item>

31 </channel>

    </rss>

 

I'm trying to understand the help file provided.

[Martijn Geerts]

That should not a problem I guess.

What about the time to live? If you didn't set it, it is an hour. ( 60 minutes)

[Manol]

Yes I changed to 1 minute but no results.

My original idea was to publish some stuff to facebook wall after saving a page in the admin area, title, description and images.

I got and external php that does exactly that and works:

<?php
 include_once 'inc/facebook.php';

 $appId = '703738********';
 $secret = 'd30530a5dcd*************';
 $returnurl = 'http://myweb.es/facebook/post.php';
 $permissions = 'manage_pages, publish_stream';
 
 $fb = new Facebook(array('appId'=>$appId, 'secret'=>$secret));
 
 $fbuser = $fb->getUser();
 
 if($fbuser){
		

        try{
            $message = array(
                'message' => 'foo'
            );

            $result = $fb->api('/me/feed/','POST',$message);
            if($result){
                echo 'Published';
            }
        }catch(FacebookApiException $e){
            echo $e->getMessage();
        }

    
 }else{
    $fbloginurl = $fb->getLoginUrl(array('redirect-uri'=>$returnurl, 'scope'=>$permissions));
    echo '<a href="'.$fbloginurl.'">Login with Facebook</a>';
 }
 
?>

I'm trying to implement that in a hook, there is a checkbox, if is on then publish to facebook

$this->pages->addHookAfter('save', $this, 'fb'); 

.....		

if($page->facebook==1) {

			 include_once 'fb/facebook.php';

			 $appId = '70373825******';
			 $secret = 'd30530a5dcd4e5829e6c8b********';
			 // $returnurl = 'http://indinet.es/facebook/post.php';
			 $returnurl = 'http://pwpage.com';
			 $permissions = 'manage_pages, publish_stream';
			 $fb = new Facebook(array('appId'=>$appId, 'secret'=>$secret));
			 
			 $fbuser = $fb->getUser();

			 $this->message("user " . $fbuser);
 
		} // facebook
....

I'm trying first to check the user id, but the result is just 0, whereas in the original file outside pw I get the user id without problems.

Any ideas, Why?

[Manol]

works changing time lo live.