Question

I am trying to use the direct link provided by facebook to post something on my wall. The post appears successfully on my wall. However, I can’t seem to find a good way to give some feedback to the user on the successful action. I could create a webpage that says “Success” or something like that but I really wanted to show the post after I posting it.

In the facebook developers reference it says that after a successful post it puts a “post id” in the redirect link, but what should the redirect_uri be to use it?

http://www.facebook.com/dialog/feed?app_id=123050457758183&
link=http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/dialogs/&
picture=http://fbrell.com/f8.jpg&
name=Facebook%20Dialogs&
caption=Reference%20Documentation&
description=Using%20Dialogs%20to%20interact%20with%20users.&
redirect_uri=http://www.facebook.com

Answer 1

redirect_uri should point to your page where you will parse the post_id parameter out of URL arguments and do whatever you want, like redirect to the created post.

You may also want to use FB.ui({method:'feed'/*...*/}, callback) of JS-SDK to do all the work for you, so you’ll be able to pick post_id in FB.ui callback instead of manually creating Feed Dialog URL and passing redirect_uri.