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PHP ActiveX 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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<?php

$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
$oauth2 = new COM("Chilkat.OAuth2");
$oauth2->AccessToken = 'FACEBOOK-ACCESS-TOKEN';

$rest = new COM("Chilkat.Rest");

//  Connect to Facebook.
$success = $rest->Connect('graph.facebook.com',443,1,1);
if ($success == 0) {
    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 == 0) {
    print $rest->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

$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.

$dtime = new COM("Chilkat.CkDateTime");
$bLocalTime = 1;

$dt = new COM("Chilkat.DtObj");
$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'));
    $dtime->ToDtObj($bLocalTime,$dt);

    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"
//    }
//  }
//  

?>