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Sets currently authenticated user's preferences in batch. Each preference is a string of maximum 128 characters and each of them has a numeric identifier ranged from 0 to 200. Therefore, every application can store up to 201 string values for each of its user.

To "remove" a preference, set it to 0 or empty string. Note that, both "0" and "" are considered as "not present", and getPreference() call will not return them. To tell them from each other, one can use some serialization format. For example, "n:0" for zeros and "s:" for empty strings.

Contents 1 Parameters 2 Return Value 3 PHP Client Coding Examples 4 FQL Equivalent 5 Error codes

[edit] Parameters

Type	Name	Description
string	api_key	The application key associated with the calling application.
string	session_key	The session key of the logged in user.
float	call_id	The request's sequence number. Each successive call for any session must use a sequence number greater than the last. We suggest using the current time in milliseconds, such as PHP's microtime(true) function.
string	sig	An MD5 hash of the current request and your secret key, as described in the authentication guide.
string	v	This must be set to 1.0 to use this version of the API.
string	format	Optional - desired response format. Either "XML" (default) or "JSON".
string	callback	Optional - wrap the response inside a function call. This is primarily to enable cross-domain javascript requests using the <script> tag, sometimes known as "JSONP". This works with both XML and JSON.
map	values	Id-value pairs of preferences to set. Each id is an integer between 0 and 200 inclusively. Each value is a string with maximum length of 128 characters. Use "0" or "" to remove a preference.
boolean	replace	True to replace all existing preferences of this user; false to merge into existing preferences.

[edit] Return Value

(none)

[edit] PHP Client Coding Examples

Since the preferences are being as a batch, we are setting ALL preferences at once.

<?php

 $facebook = new Facebook($key,$secret);
 // Set all preferences in order. Preference 0 will be 'ValA', 1 => 'ValB', etc.
 $facebook->api_client->data_setUserPreferences(Array('ValA', 'ValB', 'ValC', 'ValD'));

?>

[edit] FQL Equivalent

(none)

[edit] Error codes

Code	Description
1	An unknown error occurred. Please resubmit the request.
2	The service is not available at this time.
4	The application has reached the maximum number of requests allowed. More requests are allowed once the time window has completed.
5	The request came from a remote address not allowed by this application.
100	One of the parameters specified was missing or invalid.
101	The api key submitted is not associated with any known application.
102	The session key was improperly submitted or has reached its timeout. Direct the user to log in again to obtain another key.
103	The submitted call_id was not greater than the previous call_id for this session.
104	Incorrect signature.
800	Internal error. Please report this to Facebook when getting this error.
802	Quota exceeded. Certain maximum number allocated for an application or a user is exceeded.
805	A temporary database failure happened. Usually this can be corrected by a re-try.