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Classic ASP Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

Get the Photos for a User

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Demonstrates how to get the photos that the user has uploaded.

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Classic ASP
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success = 0

'  This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
'  See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

'  This example assumes a previously obtained an access token
set oauth2 = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.OAuth2")
oauth2.AccessToken = "FACEBOOK-ACCESS-TOKEN"

set rest = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Rest")

'  Connect to Facebook.
success = rest.Connect("graph.facebook.com",443,1,1)
If (success = 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( rest.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

'  Provide the authentication credentials (i.e. the access key)
success = rest.SetAuthOAuth2(oauth2)

'  Indicate that we only want the photos the user has personally uploaded.
success = rest.AddQueryParam("type","uploaded")

'  We could limit the number of photos by setting a limit.
success = rest.AddQueryParam("limit","5")

'  Gets the 1st page of photos. (Not the actual image data, but the information about each photo.)
'  See https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/user/photos/ for more information.
responseJson = rest.FullRequestNoBody("GET","/v2.7/me/photos")
If (rest.LastMethodSuccess = 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( rest.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

set json = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.JsonObject")
json.EmitCompact = 0
success = json.Load(responseJson)
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( json.Emit()) & "</pre>"

'  A sample JSON response is shown below.  
'  This is the code to parse the JSON response.

set dtime = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.CkDateTime")
bLocalTime = 1

set dt = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.DtObj")
i = 0
numItems = json.SizeOfArray("data")
Do While i < numItems
    json.I = i
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "--- " & i) & "</pre>"
    name = json.StringOf("data[i].name")
    If (json.LastMethodSuccess = 1) Then
        Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "name: " & name) & "</pre>"
    End If

    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "id: " & json.StringOf("data[i].id")) & "</pre>"

    '  We can load the created_time into a CkDateTime...
    success = dtime.SetFromTimestamp(json.StringOf("data[i].created_time"))
    dtime.ToDtObj bLocalTime,dt

    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( dt.Month & "/" & dt.Day & "/" & dt.Year & "  " & dt.Hour & ":" & dt.Minute) & "</pre>"
    i = i + 1
Loop

'  We can get the paging information as follows:
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "URL for next page: " & json.StringOf("paging.next")) & "</pre>"
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "before cursor: " & json.StringOf("paging.cursors.before")) & "</pre>"
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "after cursor: " & json.StringOf("paging.cursors.after")) & "</pre>"

'  This is a sample JSON response:
'  { 
'    "data": [
'      {
'        "created_time": "2016-09-29T20:46:18+0000",
'        "name": "Ignore my posts -- I'm doing some testing for Facebook related programming...",
'        "id": "10210199026347451"
'      },
'      { 
'        "created_time": "2016-09-19T02:00:42+0000",
'        "id": "10210091531240138"
'      },
'      { 
'        "created_time": "2016-09-19T02:00:42+0000",
'        "id": "10210091520620125"
'      },
'      { 
'        "created_time": "2016-09-19T01:59:46+0000",
'        "name": "I would've went for a swim had it not been for the sign",
'        "id": "10210091522299917"
'      },
'      { 
'        "created_time": "2016-09-12T00:37:35+0000",
'        "id": "10210023316834798"
'      }
'    ],
'    "paging": { 
'      "cursors": { 
'        "before": "MTAyMTAxOTkwMjYzNDc0NTEZD",
'        "after": "MTAyMTAwMjMzMTU4MzQ3OTgZD"
'      },
'      "next": "https:\/\/graph.facebook.com\/v2.7\/10224048320139890\/photos?type=uploaded&limit=5&after=MTAyMTAwMjMzMTU4MzQ3OTgZD"
'    }
'  }
'  

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