Using cURL to get Facebook Album jSON with PHP

I found a script in Web Designer magazine that enables you to gather Album Data from a Facebook Fan Page, and put it on your site.

The script utilizes PHP's file_get_contents() function, which works great on my personal server, but is not allowed on the Network Solutions hosting.

In looking through their documentation, they recommended that you use a cURL session to gather the data. I have never used cURL sessions before, and so this is something of a mystery to me. Any help would be appreciated.

The code I "was" using looked like this:

<?php
    $FBid = '239319006081415';
    $FBpage = file_get_contents('https://graph.facebook.com/'.$FBid.'/albums');
    $photoData = json_decode($FBpage);

    $albumID = $photoData->data[0]->id;
$albumURL = "https://graph.facebook.com/".$albumID."/photos";

    $rawAlbumData = file_get_contents("https://graph.facebook.com/".$albumID."/photos");
$photoData2 = json_decode($rawAlbumData);

    $a = 0;

foreach($photoData2->data as $data) {
        $photoArray[$a]["source"] = $data->source;
    $photoArray[$a]["width"] = $data->width;
    $photoArray[$a]["height"] = $data->height;
    $a++;
}
?>

The code that I am atte开发者_JAVA技巧mpting to use now looks like this:

<?php
    $FBid = '239319006081415';
$FBUrl = "https://graph.facebook.com/".$FBid."/albums";

    $ch = curl_init($FBUrl);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
$contents = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$photoData = json_decode($contents);
?>

When I try to echo or manipulate the contents of $photoData however, it's clear that it is empty.

Any thoughts?

Try removing curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER, 1); I'm not exactly sure what that does but I'm not using it and my code otherwise looks very similar. I'd also use:

json_decode($contents,true); This should put the results in an array instead of an object. I've had better luck with this approach.

Put it in the works for me category.

Try this it could work

$ch = curl_init($FBUrl);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
$contents = curl_exec($ch);
$pageData = json_decode($contents);
//object to array
$objtoarr = get_object_vars($pageData);
curl_close($ch);

Use jquery get Json instead This tips is from FB Album downloader GreaseMonkey script