Facebook – Getting Facebooks’ Cover Photo via PHP SDK & Graph API

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I'd like to know if there is a simple way of retrieving the Cover photo from a user in my application, via the Facebook php sdk.

I managed to retrieve the cover photo id of the album of the cover photo album, but my solution only works partially. (As you can see, it's not efficient, and If more albums will be added, and moved to other pages, thus this will not work).

    $albums = $facebook->api('/me/albums','GET');
    for($i = 0;$i<count($albums['data']);$i++){
        for($j = 0;$j<count($albums['data'][$i]);$j++){
            if($albums['data'][$i]['name'] == "Cover Photos"){
                echo $facebook->api('/me/albums/'.$albums['data'][$i]['cover_photo'],'GET');
            }
        }
    }

Best Answer

Facebook seems to have added the Cover field to User Object recently

https://graph.facebook.com/facebookuserid?fields=cover will give you the user cover pic Details

Facebook Doc Link : http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/user/

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Facebook – “An access token is required to request this resource” while accessing an album / photo with Facebook php sdk

There are 3 things you need.

You need to oAuth with the owner of those photos. (with the 'user_photos' extended permission)
You need the access token (which you get returned in the URL box after the oAuth is done.)
When those are complete you can then access the photos like so https://graph.facebook.com/me?access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN

You can find all of the information in more detail here: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication

Php – facebook php – how to get album cover photo

You could just use FQL, it is my preferred method and offers a lot of flexibility. This code sample should be what you need:

$album_id = '6464156415616';
    try{
        $fql    =   'SELECT pid, src_small FROM photo WHERE pid in (SELECT cover_pid FROM album WHERE aid='.$album_id.' AND owner=me())';
        $param  =   array(
            'method'    => 'fql.query',
            'query'     => $fql,
            'callback'  => ''
            //,'return_ssl_resources'=>1 //set this option if you want the source to come from https
        );
        $fqlResult   =   $facebook->api($param);
        $fqlResult['type'] = $uploadVal['type'];

        //fetch values
        $src_small = $fqlResult['src_small'];                   

    } catch(Exception $o){
      print_r($o);
    }

You can find a reference to all of the FQL tables here: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/

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