How to access albums from a Fan Page on Facebook?

Question

I used the following code, to access the albums of a fan page on facebook:

$cUrl = new cUrl;
$fb_page_id = "xxxx";

$json_link = "http://graph.facebook.com/{$fb_page_id}/albums?fields=id,name,description,link,cover_photo,count,created_time";
$json = $cUrl->file_get_contents_curl($json_link); 

/*$obj = json_decode($json, true, 512, JSON_BIGINT_AS_STRING);*/
$obj = json_decode(preg_replace('/("\w+"):(\d+)/', '\\1:"\\2"', $json), true);

$album_count = count($obj['data']);

        for($x=0; $x<$album_count; $x++):

            $id = $obj['data'][$x]['id'];
            $name = $obj['data'][$x]['name'];
            /*$description = $obj['data'][$x]['description'];*/
            $link = $obj['data'][$x]['link'];
            $cover_photo = $obj['data'][$x]['cover_photo'];
            $count = $obj['data'][$x]['count'];
            $data_s-> usarData($obj['data'][$x]['created_time']);

            // if you want to exclude an album, just add the name on the if statement
            if(
                $name!="Profile Pictures" &&
                $name!="Untlited Album"
            ){
            $show_pictures_link = "?album_id={$id}&album_name={$name}";
            echo $data_s->data();
            echo "{$name}";                
            }

There was some HTML in the code, but that’s beside the point. It worked very well, but now nothing appears. Does anyone know why? or has another method?

Answer 1

Your code is wrong but that’s not the problem. Facebook recently changed its policies and now it needs a token for such a request.

I modified the beginning of your code, if you run you will see the message "An access token is required to request this Resource." .

// $cUrl = new cUrl;
$fb_page_id = "xxx";
$json_link = "http://graph.facebook.com/{$fb_page_id}/albums?fields=id,name,description,link,cover_photo,count,created_time";
// $json = $cUrl->file_get_contents_curl($json_link); 

$ch = curl_init($json_link);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$json = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

/*$obj = json_decode($json, true, 512, JSON_BIGINT_AS_STRING);*/
$obj = json_decode(preg_replace('/("\w+"):(\d+)/', '\\1:"\\2"', $json), true);
var_dump($obj);
exit;