A handy script for mass creating instances of an Facebook Open Graph Action. Useful for testing for OAuth errors.

og_testing.php

<?php

$access_token = ''; // The access_token you'll use
$app_id = ''; // What AppId are you testing against?
$user_id = ''; // What user are you testing against?

$og_object_url = ''; // The URL of the OG Object

$og_object_type = ''; // OG Object type
$og_namespace = ''; // OG Namespace
$og_action = ''; // OG Action
$post = true; // Are you POSTing or GETing?

$testing_url = 'https://graph.facebook.com/' . $user_id . '/'. $og_namespace . ':' . $og_action . '/?access_token='.$access_token.'&' . $og_object_type . '=' . urlencode($og_object_url); // The URL we will pass (auto-generated)

$control_string = '/(\\{)("id")(:)(").*?(")(\\})/is'; // Your expected string (in regex)

$error_count = 0;

function curl_call($url, $post = false) {

  $ch = curl_init();

  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_ENCODING , "gzip");
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, $post);

  $payload = curl_exec($ch);

  curl_close($ch);

  return $payload;
}

for ($i = 1; $i <= 99; $i++) {

  $output = curl_call($testing_url, $post);

  if (!preg_match($control_string, $output)) {
    echo "something went wrong \n";
    echo $output;
    $error_count++; // Keep a count of when the control string doesn't match the result
    echo "\n";
  } else {
    echo '.';
  }
  sleep(1); // Hold off for 1 second so we don't freak anyone out.
}

echo "Run Complete. \n There were " . $error_count . " errors detected. ";