Facebook PHP API并不总是返回事件场地数据

Question

I have 3 events:

https://www.facebook.com/491594114271958 (Mad Haus)

https://www.facebook.com/569226999799343 (Deuglish)

539504962802119/ (Piffle)

All are being fetched via the PHP

$config = array();
$config['appId'] = $appId;
$config['secret'] = $secret;
$config['fileUpload'] = false; // optional
$facebook = new Facebook($config);
$ev = $facebook->api('/'.$id."?fields=cover,description,location,name,owner,venue",'GET');
print_r($ev);

For some reason Mad Haus and Piffle do not return venue data but Deuglish does. All events return basic data such as title, description and start time. When I run them through the Graph API explorer the venue data is returned as expected but not through the PHP API, any ideas? I can not for the life of me see the difference with these 3 events.

Thanks,

Caroline

Answer 1

Well, if you don't want to wait for the Facebook developers to fix the bug, you can try the same by making a simple GET request (of course along with an Access Token) to Graph API using PHP cURL. Since you are able to retrieve the venues while using the Graph API explorer, I'm pretty sure you'll be able to get them by making a simple GET request using PHP cURL.

This however involves an overhead of parsing the received JSON object and dealing with errors will be a little difficult here. But you can give it a shot.