Get Photos
Problem
I need to retrieve specific photos, either because they
contain a specific user, are in a specific album, or I have their
pid
s (photo IDs).
Solution
Use the Photos.get()
method. To retrieve photos of a specific user, call:
$photos = $facebook->api_client->photos_get('561415460',null,null);
To retrieve photos from a specific album, get the aid
using Photos.getAlbums()
and then pass it as
the middle parameter (note that the aid
shown in the URL when you’re looking at
a specific album isn’t the album’s real aid
and won’t retrieve the photos
here):
$photos = $facebook->api_client->photos_get(null,'1234567890123456789',null);
To retrieve specific photos, pass an array of aid
s as the final parameter:
$targetPhotos = array('1234567890123456789','9876543210987654321'); $photos = $facebook->api_client->photos_get(null,null,$targetPhotos);
You can combine the three parameters in any way you’d like, allowing you to filter for photos from specific albums that have been tagged with a specific user, or the subset of a specific set of photos that have been tagged with a specific user, etc.
Discussion
This method will return a multidimensional array of photo elements, each containing the following:
[0] => Array ( [pid] => 1234567890123456789 [aid] => 9876543210987654321 [owner] => 1345 [src] => http://photos-f.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/ v283/16/97/12345/s....jpg [src_big] => http://photos-f.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak- sf2p/v283/16/97/561415460/n....jpg [src_small] => http://photos-f.ak.facebook.com/ ...
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