Question

In the facebook graph api we have a attribute (picture) for attaching a image with a post. The source of the image has to be some location on the server. I have a file upload control on the page, can the uploaded image(not yet submitted) be used instead of images on the server?

I need to give the user an option to upload a image from his/her computer and that image will be posted on facebook using graph api. But since i don’t have a path to the image, how would I do this?

Answer 1

From facebook documentation ‘how to’:

Publishing an Photo

In order to publish a photo to a user’s album, you must have the
publish_stream permission. With that granted, you can upload a photo
by issuing an HTTP POST request with the photo content and an optional
description to one these to Graph API connections:

https://graph.facebook.com/USER_ID/photos – The photo will be
published to an album created for your app. We automatically create an
album for your app if it does not already exist. All photos uploaded
this way will then be added to this same album.

…

Uploading a photo to your app’s album. Creating a new album and
uploading a photo to the album you create.

https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/498/

Also, you may upload your photo with Graph method /me/photos