how to set album privacy settings using facebook graph api - facebook

Question

Is there any way to change the Facebook album privacy settings with graph api?
I'm trying to find out, but all I could found is how to get the privacy settings using fql, but not to set.
I'm creating the album as follow
$postdata = http_build_query(array(
'name' => $album_name,
'message' => $album_description
)
);
$opts = array('http' =>
array(
'method'=> 'POST',
'header'=>
'Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
'content' => $postdata
)
) $context = stream_context_create($opts);
$result = json_decode(file_get_contents($graph_url, false, $context));
$albumid = $result->id;
Now if I add privacy=>"value", it gives $albumid=null.
I'm not sure where I need to add privacy parameter.

Answer 1

When you create an album, you can send these parameters in post request.
name, message, location and privacy.
Value of privacy field can be set like this,
privacy={value: "CUSTOM"} (send this as post parameter)
The value field may specify one of the following strings:
EVERYONE, ALL_FRIENDS, NETWORKS_FRIENDS, FRIENDS_OF_FRIENDS, CUSTOM .
As facebook docs sucks, there's no mention about it on albums object page.
However, you can read it on post object.
Edit: (after comments)
In php sdk you can do something like this,
$ret_obj = $facebook->api('me/albums', 'POST',
array(
'privacy' => '{value: "CUSTOM"}',
'location' => 'India'
));

Answer 2

The document of creating an album is put in https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/user/#albums
Privacy setting is a json-style string. So you could create an array() and use json_encode() to generate it.

Answer 3

with php sdk it is also possible as php style #kaur
$ret_obj = $facebook->api('/me/albums/', 'POST', array(
'source' => '#' . $photo,
'message' => 'Picture uploaded',
'location' => 'Goran',
'privacy'=> array('value'=>'EVERYONE'), //'privacy'=> '{value: "EVERYONE"}', //worked too!! SELF, ALL_FRIENDS, EVERYONE
)
);