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Ok, there are alot of similar questions here which I have found to be of aid, but nothing clear enough for me to work with(probably because it is my first time integrating facebook in my apps).

I have read this: Facebook Access Token for Pages and this post as page on facebook page wall but none of them describe the process which they have gone through to setup it all up.

I want to allow multiple users to post to a Facebook page I own, possibly at the same time, which means that I do not want the users to require logging in in order to post on the wall through the application.

What I understand:

  1. I believe that this must be server side script for it to work as I need it to.
  2. I have a FB app set up, which I know I require it.
  3. I read this https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/access-tokens/

What I don't understand:

Which type of access token do I need ? An App Access token, or a Page Access token ? Whatever the answer, how should I go about getting the token ? Are there multiple/different ways of doing it? As i have found several answers with different instructions, such as obtaining it on the fly using the HTTP get request such as 

GET https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?
            client_id=YOUR_APP_ID
           &client_secret=YOUR_APP_SECRET
           &grant_type=client_credentials

or getting it by visiting : https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/AppID/?method=GET&path=me%2Faccounts

So Which is it? I am confused. Any help regarding this is greatly appreciated

NB: Development is done using cakePHP.

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  • @ShivanRaptor I have mentioned the post and pointed out that it is very similar to what I need but not quite clear!Actually it is the reason why I am asking this question. As both answers are different. One stating you need App access token, other the page access token – LogixMaster Feb 25 '14 at 10:08
  • _“I want to allow multiple users to post to a Facebook page I own, possibly at the same time, which means that I do not want the users to require logging in in order to post on the wall through the application.”_ – then your only option is to have them post _as_ the page )is that really what you want?). If so, then yes, you will have to get a page access token. And one way of how to do that is described in the other answer already. Other ways are described in the FB documentation. – CBroe Feb 25 '14 at 14:11
  • If this users is not the page admin, you must grant user access token of each user and using multiple User Access Token to post on their behalf. – 林果皞 Feb 25 '14 at 16:18
  • @CBroe I am already getting the page access token using one of the methods described(from the graph explorer), but the problem is that I am hardcoding that access token, but will eventually expire once the user logs out of fb. How can I dealt with that? Thanks – LogixMaster Feb 26 '14 at 12:20
  • https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/access-tokens/#extendingpagetokens – CBroe Feb 26 '14 at 13:37

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