Facebook JSON Decoding Events in PHP

Question

I have:

$user = json_decode(file_get_contents(
    'https://graph.facebook.com/me?access_token=' .
    $cookie['access_token']), true);


var_dump($user);

which works fine and gives profile output.

But:

$events = json_decode(file_get_contents(
    'https://graph.facebook.com/me/events?access_token=' .
    $cookie['access_token']), true);


var_dump($events);

gives:

object(stdClass)#5 (1) { ["data"]=> array(0) { } }

I'm not sure if this is an empty object, or if I'm not accessing what's inside 'data' correctly. But, I know there are in fact events associated with my profile. Permissions have been granted, so that's not the problem. Anyone know how to return all event names for my profile?

That is the correct graph api. How is $cookie being populated? — gview, Sep 04 '11 at 20:29
I believe events must also be made public. A private event wouldn't be available for an API call. I think. — Jemaclus, Sep 20 '11 at 17:33

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:46

In order to get events in PHP you have to follow these steps,

Request a proper Access Token follow this link facebook: permanent Page Access Token?

Replace your Access token below texted YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN field

    <?php
        $json_string = 'https://graph.facebook.com/5973249561/events/?access_token=YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN&fields=id,name,description,start_time,place,cover,end_time&limit=999';
        $obj = json_decode(curl_get_contents($json_string),true);

        foreach ($obj['data'] as $key => $value) {
          echo @$value['id'];
          echo @$value['name'];
          echo @$value['start_time'];
          echo @$value['place'];
          echo @$value['cover']['source'];
        }

        function curl_get_contents($url)
        {
         $ch = curl_init($url);
         curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
         curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
         curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
         curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
         $data = curl_exec($ch);
         curl_close($ch);
         return $data;
       }
     ?>

Facebook JSON Decoding Events in PHP

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