Question

I’m currently working on a facebook page tab application, but I’ve encountered a problem along the way. When I try to post a Youtube video on a users wall, it shows everything except the thumbnail, that you usually would be able to click and then watch the video directly on the persons timeline.

My code for creating the timeline story:

<?php

require_once('sdk/facebook.php');

$config = array();
$config['appId'] = '331499573565576';
$config['secret'] = 'xxx';
$config['cookie'] = true;

$facebook = new Facebook($config);

$post = $facebook->api('/me/feed', 'post', array(
    'message' => 'Anvo Test Besked',
    'name' => 'Anvo Test Navn',
    'description' => 'Anvo Test Beskrivelse',
    'caption' => 'Anvo Test Caption',
    'source' =>  'http://www.youtube.com/embed/mhJp9E10gbU',
    'picture' => 'http://i2.ytimg.com/vi/mhJp9E10gbU/default.jpg',
    'link' => 'http://anvo.dk'
));

if($post){
    echo 'It\'s done!';
}else{
    echo 'fail';
}

?>

The problem:

Usually you would be able to see the clickable thumbnail to the left, but there is nothing there, however if I remove the source variable from the array, it shows a thumbnail but not one that I am able to click on, since it does not lead to anything.

I’ve struggled with this problem for about 4 hours now, and searched for anything I thourght would fix the problem, but with no luck.

I really hope that one of you out there can help me.

Answer 1

Try this (not sure about ‘name’ parameter, changed it to title):

$post = $facebook->api('/me/feed', 'post', array(
    'message' => 'Anvo Test Besked',
    'title' => 'Anvo Test Navn',
    'description' => 'Anvo Test Beskrivelse',
    'caption' => 'Anvo Test Caption',
    'link' => 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhJp9E10gbU'
));