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How To: Create Facebook Events Using Graph API – Advanced


Following our previous tutorial: How To: Create Facebook Events Using Graph API
And to insure that we cover as much information as we can, we are going to show you today how to use the similar (previous) approach but without redirecting the user to Facebook (using cURL).
 

Our code

For this we have modified our previous code as follows:

<?php$app_id = "APP_ID";$app_secret = "APP_SECRET";$my_url = "REDIRECT_URL"; // mainly this should be the same URL to THIS page
$code = $_REQUEST["code"];
if(empty($code)) {    $auth_url = "http://www.facebook.com/dialog/oauth?client_id="    . $app_id . "&redirect_uri=" . urlencode($my_url)    . "&scope=create_event";    echo("<script>top.location.href='" . $auth_url . "'</script>");}
$token_url = "https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?client_id=". $app_id . "&redirect_uri=" . urlencode($my_url). "&client_secret=" . $app_secret. "&code=" . $code;$access_token = file_get_contents($token_url);
if( !empty($_POST) && (empty($_POST['name']) || empty($_POST['start_time']) || empty($_POST['end_time'])) ) {    $msg = "Please check your inputs!";} elseif(!empty($_POST)) {    $url = "https://graph.facebook.com/me/events?" . $access_token;    $params = array();    // Prepare Event fields    foreach($_POST as $key=>$value)        if(strlen($value))            $params[$key] = $value;    
    // Check if we have an image    if( isset($_FILES) && !empty($_FILES['picture']['name']) ) {        $uploaddir = './upload/';        $uploadfile = $uploaddir . basename($_FILES['picture']['name']);        if (move_uploaded_file($_FILES['picture']['tmp_name'], $uploadfile)) {            $params['picture'] = "@" . realpath($uploadfile);        }    } 
    
    // Start the Graph API call    $ch = curl_init();    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);    /*        Next option is only used for
        user from a local (WAMP)
        machine. This should be removed        when used on a live server!
https://github.com/facebook/php-sdk/issues/7
    */    //curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $params);    $result = curl_exec($ch);    $decoded = json_decode($result, true);    curl_close($ch);    if(is_array($decoded) && isset($decoded['id'])) {        // Event created successfully, now we can        // a) save event id to DB AND/OR        // b) show success message AND/OR        // c) optionally, delete image from our server (if any)        $msg = "Event created successfully: {$decoded['id']}";    }}?><!doctype html><html><head><title>Create An Event</title><style>label {float: left; width: 100px;}input[type=text],textarea {width: 210px;}#msg {border: 1px solid #000; padding: 5px; color: red;}</style></head><body><?php if( isset($msg) ) { ?><p id="msg"><?php echo $msg; ?></p><?php } ?><form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="" method="post">    <p><label for="name">Event Name</label><input type="text" name="name" value="a" /></p>    <p><label for="description">Event Description</label><textarea name="description"></textarea></p>    <p><label for="location">Location</label><input type="text" name="location" value="" /></p>    <p><label for="">Start Time</label><input type="text" name="start_time" value="<?php echo date('Y-m-d H:i:s'); ?>" /></p>    <p><label for="end_time">End Time</label><input type="text" name="end_time" value="<?php echo date('Y-m-d H:i:s', mktime(0, 0, 0, date("m")  , date("d")+1, date("Y"))); ?>" /></p>    <p><label for="picture">Event Picture</label><input type="file" name="picture" /></p>    <p>        <label for="privacy_type">Privacy</label>        <input type="radio" name="privacy_type" value="OPEN" checked='checked'/>Open&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;        <input type="radio" name="privacy_type" value="CLOSED" />Closed&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;        <input type="radio" name="privacy_type" value="SECRET" />Secret&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;    </p>    <p><input type="submit" value="Create Event" /></p></form></body></html>


Notes

  • File upload snippet (lines 32-38) is for education purposes only, you should NOT use it on live websites!
  • One can use the PHP-SDK instead of writing the cURL call ourselves, but this snippet is meant to people who don’t want to use the whole SDK for this simple task
  • This code can be easily modified to accomplish other Graph API calls (e.g. posting to user wall, uploading a photo)


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