(PHP ActiveX) Get the Photos for a User

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

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<?php

// 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
// For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use new COM('Chilkat_9_5_0.Chilkat.OAuth2')
$oauth2 = new COM("Chilkat.OAuth2");
$oauth2->AccessToken = 'FACEBOOK-ACCESS-TOKEN';

// For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use new COM('Chilkat_9_5_0.Chilkat.Rest')
$rest = new COM("Chilkat.Rest");

// Connect to Facebook.
$success = $rest->Connect('graph.facebook.com',443,1,1);
if ($success != 1) {
    print $rest->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

// Provide the authentication credentials (i.e. the access key)
$rest->SetAuthOAuth2($oauth2);

// Indicate that we only want the photos the user has personally uploaded.
$rest->AddQueryParam('type','uploaded');

// We could limit the number of photos by setting a limit.
$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 != 1) {
    print $rest->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

// For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use new COM('Chilkat_9_5_0.Chilkat.JsonObject')
$json = new COM("Chilkat.JsonObject");
$json->EmitCompact = 0;
$json->Load($responseJson);
print $json->emit() . "\n";

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

// For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use new COM('Chilkat_9_5_0.Chilkat.CkDateTime')
$dtime = new COM("Chilkat.CkDateTime");
$bLocalTime = 1;

$i = 0;
$numItems = $json->SizeOfArray('data');
while ($i < $numItems) {
    $json->I = $i;
    print '--- ' . $i . "\n";
    $name = $json->stringOf('data[i].name');
    if ($json->LastMethodSuccess == 1) {
        print 'name: ' . $name . "\n";
    }

    print 'id: ' . $json->stringOf('data[i].id') . "\n";

    // We can load the created_time into a CkDateTime...
    $dtime->SetFromTimestamp($json->stringOf('data[i].created_time'));
    // dt is a Chilkat.DtObj
    $dt = $dtime->GetDtObj($bLocalTime);
    print $dt->Month . '/' . $dt->Day . '/' . $dt->Year . '  ' . $dt->Hour . ':' . $dt->Minute . "\n";

    $i = $i + 1;
}

// We can get the paging information as follows:
print 'URL for next page: ' . $json->stringOf('paging.next') . "\n";
print 'before cursor: ' . $json->stringOf('paging.cursors.before') . "\n";
print 'after cursor: ' . $json->stringOf('paging.cursors.after') . "\n";

// 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"
//   }
// }
// 

?>