how to download facebook profile photo to my own server with php?

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i'm using graph api to connect to facebook. now i want to get the users facebook avatar and store in my own server, so later user could change photo. I could get photo through url: http://graph.facebook.com/[userid]/picture, but how to restore it directly from facebook to my server? thanks

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 28 '12 at 16:20

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You should be able to use copy() to copy the image to your server.

Example:

copy("http://facebook/picture/url","/path/on/server/img.jpg");

answered Jun 28 '12 at 16:20

Brian Glaz

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score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 29 '12 at 12:43

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Look at

fopen("http://graph.facebook.com/[userid]/picture");

Or if it doesn't work, try:

file_get_contents("http://graph.facebook.com/[userid]/picture");

edited Jun 29 '12 at 12:43

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answered Jun 28 '12 at 16:18

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You'll need to be sure to have [allow_url_fopen](http://www.php.net/manual/en/filesystem.configuration.php#ini.allow-url-fopen) enabled for that to work. – sachleen Jun 28 '12 at 18:25

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 13 '12 at 13:15

Something like this should work (assuming you have an access token or you can use a user_id without a token):

$file = 'http://graph.facebook.com/me/picture';
$newfile = 'users_picture.jpg';

if (!copy($file, $newfile)) {
    echo "failed to copy $file";
} else {
    echo "Copied Profile Picture";
}

how to download facebook profile photo to my own server with php?

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