Add Facebook status feed to profile page of site members

Question

I have a Digg style site, currently each member has a profile page where they add links to their projects and social networking profiles.

I am trying to implement a feature that allows the member to display the last "X" number of status updates to their Facebook wall.

I have been going through the Facebook API FAQs, but unclear on how to best implement this.

Does anyone know a good starting point for writing the API call or where I should look for examples?

My site currently runs on PHP.

Answer 1

Here's a set of point to get you started:

1. Create an application
2. Download the Facebook PHP-SDK
3. Acquire the read_stream,offline_access permissions (more about this here )
4. Save the user id AND the access_token to your DB.

5. Next time you want to retrieve the user's wall posts use:

    $feed = $facebook->api("/PROFILE_ID/feed", "GET", array("access_token" => "XXXX")); 

6. Always try your Facebook application locally before implementing it on a live website (see link on point 3).