Question

I use this script here for my Facebook App.
It uploads a photo on a user’s Facebook profile, and creates a new album for that photo.

The script returns “[APP NAME] Photos” as the Album name / title (without quotations).
– [APP NAME] being the name of my Facebook APP –

Basically, I don’t want that Album title. I want to specify an Album title on the script.
What I want is :

• … to be able to specify the Album’s name / title to create, from the script.
• And if possible, specify Album description too.

This is the script –

    $root_url = "http://www.WEBSITE.COM/";
    $facebook = new Facebook($config);
    $user_id = $facebook->getUser();

      // Get image from URL
      $img = $_GET['i'];
      // Change location depending on which type of cover
      if($get_set != 1) {
      $photo = './PATH/'.$img.''; // Path to the photo on the local filesystem
      } else {
      $photo = './PATH/'.$img.'';
      }
      $message = 'THIS IS THE PHOTO CAPTION';




        if($user_id) {

          // We have a user ID, so probably a logged in user.
          // If not, we'll get an exception, which we handle below.
          try {

            // Upload to a user's profile. The photo will be in the
            // first album in the profile. You can also upload to
            // a specific album by using /ALBUM_ID as the path 
            $ret_obj = $facebook->api('/me/photos', 'POST', array(
                                             'source' => '@' . $photo,
                                             'message' => $message,
                                             )
                                          );
          //  echo '<pre>Photo ID: ' . $ret_obj['id'] . '</pre>';
          print "<script>window.location = '".$root_url."index.php?cover=uploaded'</script>";

          } catch(FacebookApiException $e) {
            // If the user is logged out, you can have a 
            // user ID even though the access token is invalid.
            // In this case, we'll get an exception, so we'll
            // just ask the user to login again here.
            $login_url = $facebook->getLoginUrl( array(
                           'scope' => 'photo_upload'
                           )); 
            echo '<script> window.location = "' . $login_url . '"; </script>';
            error_log($e->getType());
            error_log($e->getMessage());
          }   

          echo '<br /><a href="' . $facebook->getLogoutUrl() . '">logout</a>';
        } else {

          // No user, print a link for the user to login
          // To upload a photo to a user's wall, we need photo_upload  permission
          // We'll use the current URL as the redirect_uri, so we don't
          // need to specify it here.
          $login_url = $facebook->getLoginUrl( array( 'scope' => 'photo_upload') );
            echo '<script> window.location = "' . $login_url . '"; </script>';
            //echo 'Please <a href="' . $login_url . '">login</a> to continue.';

        }

Seeing this one here, I am confident that is possible.

   $album_name = 'YOUR_ALBUM_NAME';
   $album_description = 'YOUR_ALBUM_DESCRIPTION';

I just don’t know how to work it in there…
Looking forward to solutions. Thanks for your time!

Answer 1

As it says in the documentation of the Photo object:

you can upload a photo by issuing an HTTP POST request with the photo
content and an optional description to one these to Graph API
connections:

• https://graph.facebook.com/USER_ID/photos – The photo will be published to an album created for your app. We automatically create an
  album for your app if it does not already exist. All photos uploaded
  this way will then be added to this same album.

• https://graph.facebook.com/ALBUM_ID/photos – The photo will be published to a specific, existing photo album, represented by the
  ALBUM_ID. Regular albums have a size limit of 200 photos. Default
  application albums have a size limit of 1000 photos.

You are currently using the first option, using the 2nd one requires for you to have an album id, which you first need to create:

You can create an album for a user by issuing an HTTP POST request to
PROFILE_ID/albums with the publish_stream permissions and the
following parameters
(Albums connection of the User object)

The problem is that you’ll have to save this album id for the user to use in the future when the app needs to upload again to the album.