Tagging friends in status updates from Facebook API

Question

I recently came across this blog post that said that it's possible to tag someone in a status update from a Facebook app (= from the API):

However, it doesn't seem to work for me.

It tried it in three different ways:

$post = $facebook->api('/me/feed', 'post', array(     'access_token' => $session['access_token'],     'message' => 'Hello @[562372646:Lionel Cordier], how are you?' )); 

or

$access_token = $session['access_token']; $message = 'Hello @[562372646:Lionel Cordier], how are you?'; $curl_post = 'access_token='.$access_token.'&message='.$message; $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://graph.facebook.com/me/feed'); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $curl_post); $data = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); 

or

$access_token = $session['access_token']; $message = 'Hello @[562372646:Lionel Cordier], how are you?'; $curl_post = 'access_token='.$access_token.'&status='.$message; $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://api.facebook.com/method/users.setStatus'); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $curl_post); $data = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); 

But nothing works. The result I have is "Hello @[562372646:Lionel Cordier], how are you?" on my wall.

But if I type "Hello @[562372646:Lionel Cordier], how are you?" directly in Facebook, it works correctly.

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

I was struggling with this problem last week and found the following bug report, which suggests (given the current ASSIGNED status) that it cannot be done yet:(

http://developers.facebook.com/bugs/395975667115722/

Answer 2

Yes it is possible in this format: @[{user_id}:1:{name}]

Try this tutorial: http://digitizor.com/2011/01/24/tag-user-facebook-graph/