Question

Suppose that I had a logged in user through the Facebook PHP SDK, and that I had permission to fetch the bio (user_about_me) and the education (user_education_history). If I wanted to fetch that data, how would I go about doing that? I know that if I wanna get the user interests, I just run

$facebook->api("/me/interests");

However, this does not work for the bio and education history. Using the PHP SDK, how can I get this data? Thanks.

EDIT: Here’s a picture of the app permissions, as well as the code used to request the permissions.

$login_url = $facebook->getLoginUrl(array( 'scope' => 'email, publish_stream, 
user_about_me, user_interests, user_education_history'));

Answer 1

You can’t do $facebook->api("/me/about") ; OR $facebook->api("/me/bio") ; It will throw a fatal error:

Fatal error: Uncaught OAuthException: Unknown path components: /about thrown in 
[...]/base_facebook.php on line 1028

If you want to get user_about_me and user_education_history you can do it like:

$user = $facebook->api("/me") ;

Then parse the $user array to obtain the values you need . IF you wan use education history then you can do:

$user_education_history = $user['education'];

Hope this helps,. 🙂