Question

I am working on web application in which I have implemented Facebook connectivity. User can post to his/her Facebook wall from my site.

I know that access token is required for updating user’s status from my site & access token expires after certain amount of time i.e after 2 hrs.

So if user’s access token expires user needs to be re-authenticated with Facebook to be able to post on wall. But i want to implement it something like twitter does. Once you connect your Facebook account to Twitter your tweets are posted to Facebook.

I have read this, but I don’t understand PHP.
Can I renew the token? If yes then how? And how twitter implements it?
Please guide me I am new to this stuff.

Thanks in advance…!

Answer 1

the offline_access permission is valid forever or until the user explicitly deauthenticates your app in their facebook application settings. The way that I check for this in my app is by the following:

@$accounts = json_decode(file_get_contents("https://graph.facebook.com/".$fb_info['uid']."/accounts?access_token=".$fb_info['access_token']));

if($accounts){
    $deauthed=false;
}

now reprompt for permissions for a new access token