Facebook PHP SDK: Upload Event Cover Photo

Question

I use the facebook-php-sdk to create an event for a page.

Now as described here it is possible to upload a picture to an event.

The problem with that is, tha

Answer 1

yes. You can upload cover photo using Graph API. Once you have created the event, you can use cover_url field to upload the cover photo. 'cover_url' => url of the photo.

Answer 2

I just figured out how to do it using the Facebook PHP SDK:

1- POST the Facebook event on the page using

$attachment = array(
    'access_token' => $access_token,
    'name' => $title,
    'start_time' => $start_time,
    'description' => $description
);
$res = $fb->api('/PAGE_ID/events/', 'post', $attachment);

2- Retrieve the EVENT_ID from the result of the post

$fb_event_id = $res['id'];

3- Update the event by calling /EVENT_ID with the cover parameter

$attachment['cover'] = '@/path/to/image.jpg';                                   
$fb->api('/'.$fb_event_id, 'post', $attachment);

That's it !!

Answer 3

All answers above are wrong! There is only one way to create the Cover Image:

Create The Event:

$eventData = array(
    'name' => 'Event Title',
    'start_time' => 'StarttimeInCorrectFormat',
    'description' => 'Event Description'
);
$fbEvent = $fb->api('/PAGE_ID/events/', 'post', $eventData);

Update the Event using the ID from above:

$cover['cover_url']     = 'http://urlToCoverImage.jpg';
$eventUpdate = $facebook->api( "/" . $fbEvent['id'], 'post', $cover );

return true or false.

And thats it. Cover is in.