Question

I’m trying to use the facebook api to get the app user’s profile pic and then save it on the server. I’m getting the image just fine, but creating a new image file and saving it in the correct folder seems to be a problem. I tried using the fopen and file_put_contents functions, but apparently they require that a file be created before hand. How can I save the fb user’s image on the server? My code is as follows.

$facebook = new Facebook(array(
'appId' => '12345',
'secret' => '12345',
'cookie' => true
));

$access_token = $facebook->getAccessToken();

if($access_token != "") 
{
$user = $facebook->getUser();
if($user != 0)
{
            $user_profile = $facebook->api('/me');   

        $fb_id = $user_profile['id'];
        $fb_first_name = $user_profile['first_name'];
        $fb_last_name = $user_profile['last_name'];
        $fb_email = $user_profile['email'];

            $img = file_get_contents('https://graph.facebook.com/'.$fb_id.'/picture?type=large');
    $file = '/img/profile_pics/large/';
    rename($img, "".$file."".$img."");
    }

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Lance

Answer 1

Using $img = file_get_contents(...) img will contain the source of the image just save that to a file, rename() wont work.

Just do:

error_reporting(E_ALL);//For debugging, in case something else

$img_data = file_get_contents('https://graph.facebook.com/'.$fb_id.'/picture?type=large');

$save_path = '/img/profile_pics/large/';
if(!file_exists($save_path)){
    die('Folder path does not exist');
}else{
    file_put_contents($save_path.$fb_id.'.jpg',$img_data);
}