Unable to fetch photos using facebook api

Question

I am trying to fetch the photos of a user from facebook using php api. Currently I don't have permissions to fetch the photos from facebook. But I am using the same id which has been used to create the facebook app. I heard that we can use the same id (the one used to create the app) for testing everything from facebook. My code for fetching user photos is :-

$request = new FacebookRequest(
  $session,
  'GET',
  '/{user-id}/photos'
);
$response = $request->execute();
$graphObject = $response->getGraphObject();

Response of the above code :- Array()

It is returning a blank array. Is it because I do not have permissions to fetch photos or any other reason?

Answer 1

As an app admin/developer/tester you can experiment with permissions without the need of submitting for app review. However , you still need to request the permission to be able to access the data of these endpoints.

You can easily test this on the Graph API Explorer , where you could easily request permissions and query endpoints.