Facebook Cookbook

Event Table

Problem

What’s the schema for the event table?

Solution

The event table holds all of the events created in the Facebook Events application. Its fields are listed in Table 8-5. Queries to this table will only return data the current user is allowed to see (meaning you can’t request events for users the current user isn’t friends with). More information about this table, including an up-to-date listing of fields, can be found at http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Event_(FQL).

Table 8-5. event table fields

Name	Type	Index	Description
eid	int	•	eid (event ID) of this event.
name	string		Name of this event.
tagline	string		Tagline of this event.
nid	int		nid (network ID) of the network, as set by the creator when the event was created.
pic_small	string		URL of the small picture for this event, which has a maximum width of 50 px and a maximum height of 150 px. Might be empty if this field wasn’t set by the creator.
pic_big	string		URL of the big picture for this event (max width of 200 px, max height of 600 px). Might be empty if this field wasn’t set by the creator.
pic	string		URL of the picture for this event (max width of 100 px, max height of 300 px). Might be empty if this field wasn’t set by the creator.
host	string		Name of the host of the event. Note that this can be set to a group when the event is created, but this will return only a string, not a gid.
description	string		Description of this event.
event_type	string		Type of this event. Can be any one of Party, Causes, ...