Facebook graph api and file_get_contents problem

PHP
1

Hello,

Hi, i try to create a simple script that fetch userprofil data from an id

Example: here the id is zuk


<?
$link = json_decode(file_get_contents('http://graph.facebook.com/zuck'));
echo $link_>name;
?>

Problem is, it’s seems like facebook limit this kind of request, sometime it’s working but sometime i get the error :

Warning: file_get_contents(http://graph.facebook.com/zuck) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden

Do you know how to bypass this ?

Thank you.

2

Make sure in your PHP ini file you have allow_url_fopen set to On or it will block cross domain requests.

3

Just did a phpinfo() : allow_url_fopen On On

I think the problem is on the facebook side. Butit’s orking time by time …

4

I ran the script on my local server and it worked fine, which version of PHP are you using?

5

PHP Version 5.2.17

Did you try it several time ? i mean try to refresh the page ?

6

I refreshed it 30 times within 1 minute and go a JSON response back every time, sounds like something isn’t configured right or you’re hitting facebook.com too many times in a certain time period.

7

I tried on another server and it’s woking fine. Thanks for your help. I have another question, how to manage error with this ? if i type a bad username for example ?

8

î will get a 404 not found and my script will stop

9

Typically an error property would be returned instead of graph data so you can look for that once you have parse the response.