So I was working with this script to loop through the events from a given page. Suddenly I find it doesn't work anymore :(
I have a feeling it could be a bug, because if you pick any page, view events with an access_token, you can't get any data back for the "next" paginated URL. e.g. try https://graph.facebook.com/evenightclub/events in apigee.com
Any ideas?
($fid is the page object id)
try {
$facebook = new Facebook(array(
'appId' => '<removed>',
'secret' => '<removed>',
));
$access_token = $facebook->getAccessToken();
$events_data = array();
$offset = 0;
$limit = 5000;
$params = array('access_token' => $access_token);
//fetch events from Facebook API
$data = $facebook->api("$fid/events/?limit=$limit&offset=$offset", $params);
$events_data = array_merge($events_data, $data["data"]);
//loop through pages to return all results
while(in_array("paging", $data) && array_key_exists("next", $data["paging"])) {
$offset += $limit;
$data = $facebook->api("$fid/events/?limit=$limit&offset=$offset", $params);
$events_data = array_merge($events_data, $data["data"]);
}}
Your code works for me, the only thing that I did is to make sure that count($data["data"]) > 0 before merging it with the existing information. So it looks like this:
//loop through pages to return all results
while(in_array("paging", $data) && array_key_exists("next", $data["paging"])) {
$offset += $limit;
$data = $facebook->api("$fid/events/?limit=$limit&offset=$offset", $params);
// make sure we do not merge with an empty array
if (count($data["data"]) > 0){
$events_data = array_merge($events_data, $data["data"]);
} else {
// if the data entry is empty, we have reached the end, exit the while loop
break;
}
}}