how to save facebook profile picture using php graph Api

Question

i am using this curl class for saving the file -->

class CurlHelper
{
  /**
   * Downloads a file from a url and returns the temporary file path.
   * @param string $url
   * @return string The file path
   */
  public static function downloadFile($url, $options = array())
  {
    if (!is_array($options))
      $options = array();
    $options = array_merge(array(
        'connectionTimeout' => 5, // seconds
        'timeout' => 10, // seconds
        'sslVerifyPeer' => false,
        'followLocation' => false, // if true, limit recursive redirection by
        'maxRedirs' => 1, // setting value for "maxRedirs"
        ), $options);

    // create a temporary file (we are assuming that we can write to the system's temporary directory)
    $tempFileName = tempnam(sys_get_temp_dir(), '');
    $fh = fopen($tempFileName, 'w');

    $curl = curl_init($url);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FILE, $fh);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $options['connectionTimeout']);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, $options['timeout']);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, $options['sslVerifyPeer']);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, $options['followLocation']);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, $options['maxRedirs']);
    curl_exec($curl);

    curl_close($curl);
    fclose($fh);

    return $tempFileName;
  }
}

    $url = 'http://graph.facebook.com/shashankvaishnav/picture';
$sourceFilePath = CurlHelper::downloadFile($url, array(
  'followLocation' => true,
  'maxRedirs' => 5,
));

this above code will give me the temporary url in $sourceFilePath variable now i want to store that image in my image folder. I am stuck here...please help me in this...thank you in advance.

$tempFileName = tempnam(sys_get_temp_dir(), ''); this code save the file as xxxx.tmp, it supposed to save as .jpg as @senthilbp mentioned in his answer. — thomasbabuj, Nov 02 '12 at 09:18

andyrandy · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-23T13:20:41.390

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There is a pretty easy option for this:

$url = 'http://graph.facebook.com/shashankvaishnav/picture';
$data = file_get_contents($url);
$fileName = 'fb_profilepic.jpg';
$file = fopen($fileName, 'w+');
fputs($file, $data);
fclose($file);

You don´t even need anything else then.

Or if file_get_contents is disabled (usually it isn´t), this should also work:

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://graph.facebook.com/shashankvaishnav/picture');
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$fileName = 'fb_profilepic.jpg';
$file = fopen($fileName, 'w+');
fputs($file, $data);
fclose($file);

Edit: This is not possible anymore, since you can´t use the username for API calls anymore. You have to use an (App Scoped) ID after authorizing a User with the Facebook API instead of the username.

edited Feb 23 '16 at 13:20

answered Nov 02 '12 at 08:58

andyrandy

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in my server file_get_contents is disabled... i don't know what to do now – Shashank M Vaishnav Nov 02 '12 at 11:02
i included a version with curl too, did not test it but should be pretty much the same – andyrandy Nov 02 '12 at 11:49
@luschn what is the $timeout initialization for? it is not used anywhere O.o – jave.web Jan 13 '14 at 13:13
good question, it´s really not needed here, i´ll remove it. thanx for the heads up :) – andyrandy Jan 13 '14 at 22:08
Thanks but I have to add curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1); in order to make it work :) – Snehasish Sep 25 '14 at 17:22
well, it may be different on your server, of course – andyrandy Sep 25 '14 at 17:51
Thanks a lot. You saved my time. Method 1 is worked perfectly. Voted. – Sumith Harshan Feb 03 '16 at 17:54

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 02 '12 at 09:01

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$filename = 'abcd.jpg';    
$to = 'image/'.$filename;
if(copy($sourceFilePath,$to))
echo 'copied';
else
echo 'error';

answered Nov 02 '12 at 09:01

Guru

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senthilbp · Answer 3 · 2012-11-02T12:57:19.647

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$fbprofileimage = file_get_contents('http://graph.facebook.com/senthilbp/picture/'); 
file_put_contents('senthilbp.gif', $fbprofileimage);

edited Nov 02 '12 at 12:57

answered Nov 02 '12 at 09:09

senthilbp

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this is not working giving very big error message --> HTTP/1.1 302 Found Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Cache-Control: private, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate Content-Type: image/jpeg Expires: Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT Location: http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc6/203228_100000407223160_1936571676_s.jpg Pragma: no-cache X-FB-Rev: 661961 X-FB-Debug: +t1EQ3gRio5a6XjuG0Q+uQnUlM+M78/2EZYBXkIsyV4= Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2012 11:08:19 GMT Connection: keep-alive Content-Length: 0 – Shashank M Vaishnav Nov 02 '12 at 11:08
Copy this code in a PHP file , create folder named "fbimg" and give write permission to that folder , I mentioned **facebookid** -- give your facebook id and run in browser , your profiile image will be downloaded in "fbimg" folder – senthilbp Nov 02 '12 at 11:44
i tried the same but that above mentioned text is coming and image is not comming :( – Shashank M Vaishnav Nov 02 '12 at 12:38
sit this file_get_contents is disabled on our server...they are not allowing us to do it – Shashank M Vaishnav Nov 02 '12 at 13:19

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 02 '12 at 11:48

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$profile_Image = 'http://graph.facebook.com/shashankvaishnav/picture';
$userImage = $picturtmp_name . '.jpg'; // insert $userImage in db table field.
$savepath = '/images/';
insert_user_picture($savepath, $profile_Image, $userImage);

function insert_user_picture($path, $profile_Image, $userImage) {
  $thumb_image = file_get_contents($profile_Image);
  $thumb_file = $path . $userImage;
  file_put_contents($thumb_file, $thumb_image);
}

answered Nov 02 '12 at 11:48

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i think that's a most part to get api response for image all functions work on allow_url_fopen = on (copy,fputs,file_put_contents) you acn get image using curl but for saving in folder you have allow_url_fopen = on in your php.ini – Rakesh Sharma Nov 03 '12 at 03:44

how to save facebook profile picture using php graph Api

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