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    copied!<p>I am trying to show my thumbnails of photos from my facebook fan page. I have studied the facebook dev and graph api. Now I am trying to using php to automate the process and show the images on my photo page. </p> <pre><code>$facebook_album = file_get_contents("https://graph.facebook.com/10150101465621686/photos"); </code></pre> <p>which returns the following data with the image data repeating for each image (see below):</p> <pre><code>{ "data": [ { "id": "10150101465701686", "from": { "name": "Lingua Language Academy", "category": "Organization", "id": "55206251685" }, "picture": "http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/185883_10150101465701686_55206251685_6497497_7724100_s.jpg", "source": "http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/185883_10150101465701686_55206251685_6497497_7724100_n.jpg", "height": 540, "width": 720, "images": [ { "height": 540, "width": 720, "source": "http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/185883_10150101465701686_55206251685_6497497_7724100_n.jpg" }, { "height": 135, "width": 180, "source": "http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/185883_10150101465701686_55206251685_6497497_7724100_a.jpg" }, { "height": 97, "width": 130, "source": "http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/185883_10150101465701686_55206251685_6497497_7724100_s.jpg" }, { "height": 56, "width": 75, "source": "http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/185883_10150101465701686_55206251685_6497497_7724100_t.jpg" } ], "link": "http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=6497497&amp;id=55206251685", "icon": "http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/v1/yz/r/StEh3RhPvjk.gif", "created_time": "2011-02-22T02:41:02+0000", "position": 1, "updated_time": "2011-02-22T02:41:04+0000" }, </code></pre> <p>My questions is... Is there an easy way to put the following info in an array that will be easy to loop through? </p> <p>Something like so that it loops through the data and puts the value of picture in the image src. </p> <pre><code>foreach( $facebook_album as $key =&gt; $value){ echo "&lt;img src='picture'/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"; } </code></pre>
 

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