Batch File Upload Example

This example covers uploading files in a batch request with the Facebook SDK for PHP.

Example

The Graph API supports file uploads in batch requests and the Facebook PHP SDK does all the heavy lifting to make it super easy to upload photos and videos in a batch request.

The following example will upload two photos and one video.

$fb = new Facebook\Facebook([
  'app_id' => '{app-id}',
  'app_secret' => '{app-secret}',
  'default_graph_version' => 'v10.0',
  ]);

// Since all the requests will be sent on behalf of the same user,
// we'll set the default fallback access token here.
$fb->setDefaultAccessToken('user-access-token');

$batch = [
  'photo-one' => $fb->request('POST', '/me/photos', [
      'message' => 'Foo photo',
      'source' => $fb->fileToUpload('/path/to/photo-one.jpg'),
    ]),
  'photo-two' => $fb->request('POST', '/me/photos', [
      'message' => 'Bar photo',
      'source' => $fb->fileToUpload('/path/to/photo-two.jpg'),
    ]),
  'video-one' => $fb->request('POST', '/me/videos', [
      'title' => 'Baz video',
      'description' => 'My neat baz video',
      'source' => $fb->videoToUpload('/path/to/video-one.mp4'),
    ]),
];

try {
  $responses = $fb->sendBatchRequest($batch);
} catch(Facebook\Exception\ResponseException $e) {
  // When Graph returns an error
  echo 'Graph returned an error: ' . $e->getMessage();
  exit;
} catch(Facebook\Exception\SDKException $e) {
  // When validation fails or other local issues
  echo 'Facebook SDK returned an error: ' . $e->getMessage();
  exit;
}

foreach ($responses as $key => $response) {
  if ($response->isError()) {
    $e = $response->getThrownException();
    echo '<p>Error! Facebook SDK Said: ' . $e->getMessage() . "\n\n";
    echo '<p>Graph Said: ' . "\n\n";
    var_dump($e->getResponse());
  } else {
    echo "<p>(" . $key . ") HTTP status code: " . $response->getHttpStatusCode() . "<br />\n";
    echo "Response: " . $response->getBody() . "</p>\n\n";
    echo "<hr />\n\n";
  }
}