facebook php sdk get events from facebook page via graph api - php

1,5 months ago I could make requests to graph api explorer and everything was ok. Suddenly, without changing anything in the code I got this error message when I tried to access the event node of a facebook page in graph api:
Undefined index: events.
I have this code which works fine:
$request1 = new FacebookRequest($session,'GET','/'.$key.'?fields=name,cover,events');
$response1 = $request1->execute();
$graphObject1 = $response1->getGraphObject()->asArray();
$array1 = json_decode(json_encode($graphObject1),true);
$source = $array1['cover']['source'];
I can take the cover photo but when I try this :
$request2 = new FacebookRequest($session,'GET','/'.$key.'/events');
$response2 = $request2->execute();
$graphObject2 = $response2->getGraphObject()->asArray();
$array2 = json_decode(json_encode($graphObject2),true);//$key is the page id
$temp = $array2['data'];
I got this error:
Undefined index: events
please help!!

You need to make it a version request. Facebook updates it's API on a regular bases. But they let you use the old version if you make a version request. This way you do not have to worry about the API being updated.
Here is a resource from Facebook on how to go about doing that.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/versions

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Side note: You should not use that script on every page load, better cache the result for some time. If a lot of users visit the page in a short time, you will hit the rate limit.
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