Facebook Cookbook

Event Member Table

Problem

What’s the schema of the event_member table?

Solution

The event_member table records the relationships between events and users, as well as their RSVP status. Its fields are listed in Table 8-6. 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_member_(FQL).

Table 8-6. event_member table fields

Name	Type	Index	Description
eid	int	•	eid (Event ID) of this event.
uid	int	•	uid (User ID) of the Facebook user whose RSVP status is recorded in this entry.
rsvp_status	string		The user’s RSVP status. Can be one of attending, declined, unsure, or not_replied.

Note that only the fields marked as “Index” in this table can be used in an FQL query’s WHERE clause, but any of the fields can appear in the SELECT.

Discussion

If you’d rather use the API to access event_members, try the Events.get() and Events.getMembers() methods.