I am creating an external photo gallery using PHP and
the Facebook
graph API. It pulls thumbnails as well as
the large image from albums on our Facebook Fan Page.
Everything works perfect, except I'm only able to retrieve photos that an ADMIN posts to our page. (graph.facebook.com/myalbumid/photos) Is there a way to use
graph api to load publicy uploaded photos from fans?
I want to retrieve
the pictures from
the "Photos from" album, but trying to get
the ID for
the graph query is not like other albums... it looks like this: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=o.116860675007039
Another note:
The only way i've come close to retreiving this data is by using
the "feed" option.. ie:
graph.facebook.com/pageid/feed
EDIT:
This is about as far as I could get- it works, but has certain issues stated below. Maybe someone could expand on this, or provide a better solution. (Using FB PHP SDK)
<?php
require_once ('config.php');
// get all photos for album
$photos = $facebook->api("/YourID/tagged");
$maxitem =10;
$count = 0;
foreach($photos['data'] as $photo) {
if ($photo['type'] == "photo"):
echo "<img src='{$photo['picture']}' />", "<br />";
endif;
$count+= 1;
if ($count >= "$maxitem") break;
}
?>
Issues with this:
1)
The fact that I don't know a method for
graph querying specific "types" of Tags, I had to run a conditional statement to display photos.
2) You cannot effectively use
the "?limit=#" with this, because as I said
the "tagged" query contains all types (photo, video, and status). So if you are going for a photo gallery and wish to avoid running an entire query by using ?limit, you will lose images.
3)
The only content that shows up in
the "tagged" query is from people that are not Admins of
the page. This isn't
the end of
the world, but I don't understand why Facebook wouldn't allow yourself to be shown in this data as long as you posted it "as yourself" and not as
the page.
