How do I find at what time an access token is going to expire in php?
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The token you receive initially from Facebook in the signed_request expires in 2 hours or 7200000 milliseconds or 7200 seconds. If you extend the token with the below request you will receive a new expire time of 5184000 seconds in the response which converts to 60 days. What I typically do is store this time in milliseconds added to the current Unix time in milliseconds since the epoch and continually check against that time when needed.
Extending the token:
As an example I would request that sources information on the client side and do the following check..