邀请朋友使用PHP列表来使用app

Question

I wish to manage the friends invitations to use a facebook app, in PHP.

• I saw the documentation for JS
• And already saw the request form doc
• I've already saw a lot of questions in stackoverflow.

But I can't find a good answer, because I don't wish to display those facebook dialog box !

First : Is it possible to do it in PHP, without displaying the facebook dialog box ?

I get the friends list with the following (user is already connected/allowed the app)

include("../config/fb_config.php");

$facebook = new Facebook(array(
  'appId'  => $fbconfig['appid'],
  'secret' => $fbconfig['secret'],
  'cookie' => true,
));

$friends = $facebook->api('me/friends');

foreach($friends['data'] as $users)
{   
    echo "<input type=\"checkbox\" name=\"".$users['id']."\"/> 
             ".$users['name']."<br/>";
}

Is there any facebook url/method to send the invite requests, with checked ids and a message ?

Or something like the "publish a message on the user wall"

$facebook->api('/me/feed', 'post', array('message'=>'blabla...');

Answer 1

You are unable to do it without providing the popup box. Simply put Facebook makes sure on most occasions the user is in control of what they are doing, unless they give explicit permissions for an app to do so. And there is no permission for what you are trying to do.

The closest you will get is Frictionless Requests. As linked to in your question: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/dialogs/requests/. But it looks like they need to confirm at least once. After that you can send requests without a popup dialog.

However this is only supported via the Javascript SDK and not PHP.

I am afraid at this time, it is the best you have.