Create a Photo Album
Problem
I need to create a photo album.
Solution
Use the Photos.createAlbum()
method, which unfortunately isn’t supported in the PHP Client
Library (see Adding Missing PHP Client Library Methods):
$album = $facebook->api_client->photos_createAlbum('Test Album', 'Testville','This is a test');
Discussion
This method will return an array containing the information about your newly created album:
Array ( [aid] => 12345679012345 [cover_pid] => 0 [owner] => 12345 [name] => Test Album [created] => 1212878578 [modified] => 1212878578 [description] => This is a test [location] => Testville [link] => http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=12345679012345&id=12345 [size] => 0 )
You’re allowed to store the aid
(album ID) and the uid
of the owner, but nothing else. The
returned cover_pid
value will
always be 0 because this album was just created and doesn’t contain
any photos yet.
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