Question

I am new to the Facebook graph API and I am currently developing my first app using the php-sdk. I am looking to be able to post questions on a group via the graph API. I have come across Facebook’s blog post here http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/635/ which gives an example of posting a question to a page, but I have found little documentation on posting questions to groups. I have attempted to post a question to a group with the following code, which is throwing an ‘Unsupported post request’ error. I don’t know why it isn’t working, as I have no problems posting questions to a users feed with this code.

$params = array(
    'question'=> $question,
    'options'=> $options,
    'allow_new_options' => false  
);

$questionpost = $facebook->api('/' . $ID . '/questions', 'POST', $params);

Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

This is odd. You cannot (as well as I cannot) find documentation on how to post a question to a group via the API. Then you try posting a question, just like you can to a page (per the blog post), to a group and receive an error. Well, I assume that pretty well confirms that you cannot post a question to a group using the API.

From: https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/635/

We are now adding the option to write them. To create a question for
the current user, issue an HTTP POST to the questions connection like
this:

Here’s a PHP example that shows the optional parameters: options and
allow_new_options — and how to post a question as a Page using its
access token:

Please notice they did not say you can do this for groups. Only users and pages.

You should file a bug with Facebook asking them to implement the ability to post a question to a group. Please report back here the bug number so other stack overflow users can see/track the bug.

Thanks!

Happy coding.