facebook graph api & php sdk, deleting events!

Question

For the life of me, I cannot find a way to delete, cancel or remove facebook events I created & updated using the FB PHP SDK & the Graph API.

I've tried every single permutation found on facebook's documentation & stack overflow...

Here are some of the clues I have found on my quest..

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/#deleting https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/event/ https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/rest/events.cancel/

Facebook SDK and Graph API Comment Deleting Error

Facebook API - delete status

Facebook Graph API - delete like

Here is what I have tried so far.

function delete_fb_event($event_data, $data)
{
    //load the user for offline access and userid
    $user = $this->load_user($data['aid']);

    if(!empty($user[0]['fb_offline_access']))
    {
        //instantiate Facebook API
        require 'facebook.php';
        $facebook = new Facebook(array(
          'appId'  => 'BLAHBLAHBLAH',
          'secret' => 'BLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAH',
          'cookie' => true,
        ));

        $fb_event = array(
            "access_token" => $user[0]['fb_offline_access'],
        );

        $result = $facebook->api('/'.$event_data['fb_event_id'], 'DELETE', $fb_event); //Uncaught GraphMethodException: Unsupported delete request
        //$result = $facebook->api('/'.$user[0]['fb_id']."_".$event_data['fb_event_id'], 'POST', array('access_token' => $user[0]['fb_offline_access'], 'method' => 'delete')); Uncaught OAuthException: (#803) Some of the aliases you requested do not exist
        //$result = $facebook->api('/'.$event_data['fb_event_id']."_".$user[0]['fb_id'], 'POST', array('access_token' => $user[0]['fb_offline_access'], 'method' => 'delete')); Uncaught OAuthException: (#803) Some of the aliases you requested do not exist  
        //$result = $facebook->api('/'.$event_data['fb_event_id'], 'POST', array('access_token' => $user[0]['fb_offline_access'], 'method' => 'delete')); Uncaught GraphMethodException: Unsupported post request
        //$result = $facebook->api('/'.$user[0]['fb_id']."_".$event_data['fb_event_id'], 'POST', array( 'access_token' => $user[0]['fb_offline_access'], 'method' => 'delete' )); Uncaught OAuthException: (#803) Some of the aliases you requested do not exist
        return $result;         
    }
    else
    {
        echo "error3"; //no FB offline access
    }       
}   

Answer 1

Hey Peter, I tried running your code and I'm sorry to say I didn't have much success either.

My first guess was that you probably did not have the extended permissions - for deleting an event, you need to have to create_event permission

Although I tried with that, I keep getting the #200 Permission Error

On further digging I ran into a similar bug that was reported

http://bugs.developers.facebook.net/show_bug.cgi?id=12777

Interestingly - although this bug has been marked as resolved - if you read the comments, users are still reporting the same issue.

Sorry wasn't able to offer much help. Good luck