Facebook API - Retrieve my own albums and photos

Question

I'm trying to retrieve my albums and photos from facebook using the Facebook api for php. I've created an app now i have my AppId and my AppSecretId. I don't need any login window because I want to display my own photos, not the ones from any other user, but everytime I try to retrieve them, I receive this message "An active access token must be used to query information about the current user."

I know that if I were going to show the photos from another users, then I should ask for their login and then generate the access token, but this is not the case.

I have tried generating an App token and tried to use this as an access token but it's not working either.

This is the code I'm using:

    require_once("facebook/facebook.php");
        try{
            $facebook = new Facebook(array(
                    'appId' => '<APPID>',
                    'secret' => '<SECRETID>',
                    'cookie' => true
            ));

echo($facebook->getUser());
        if(is_null($facebook->getUser()))
        {
                header("Location:{$facebook->getLoginUrl(array('req_perms' => 'user_status,publish_stream,user_photos'))}");
                exit;
        }
        $me = $facebook->api('/me');

        $albums = $facebook->api('/me/albums', array('access_token' => $facebook->getAccessToken()));
        echo($albums);
    }catch(Exception $e){
        echo "THIS IS THE ERROR: " . $e->getMessage();
        die;
    }

I hope you can help me with this. Thank you so much!!

Answer 1

The easiest way to generate a Facebook access token for your personal account is to visit their Graph API Explorer. It will automatically generate an access token that you can copy/paste into your code.

https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer

Additionally, you can use the 'Get Access Token' button on that page to request an access token with specific permissions.