Instagram API pagination in PHP - php

Question

I am trying to create a small instagram app in PHP only (no database) and without getting an access_token (just my client_id). So far so good, (i.e. input user_id returns photos from last 30 days, with likes-count and created_time, in a table), until I get to pagination. As expected, I want to hit a 'more' button which loads next json file and adds additional photos to the existing table, but it falls apart there... Here is what I've got, working, except for the pagination attempt.
NOTE: this is an internal app, so the sensitivity of my client_id is not an issue, if it is exposed
<?php
if (!empty($_GET['user_id'])){
$user_id = ($_GET['user_id']);
$instagram_url = 'https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/' . $user_id . '/media/recent/?client_id=MY_CLIENT_ID';
$instagram_json = file_get_contents($instagram_url);
$instagram_array = json_decode($instagram_json, true);
}
?>
...
<?php
if(!empty($instagram_array)){
$instagram_array['pagination'] as $page { // Attempt at pagination
echo '<p>' .$page['next_url'].'</p>'; // Attempt at pagination
} // Attempt at pagination
foreach($instagram_array['data'] as $image){
if ($image['created_time'] > strtotime('-30 days')) {
echo '<tr>';
echo '<td>' . date('M d, Y', $image['created_time']) . '</td>';
echo '<td>'.$image['likes']['count'].'</td>';
echo '<td><img src="'.$image['images']['standard_resolution']['url'].'" alt=""/ style="max-height:40px"></td>';
echo '</tr>';
}
}
}
?>
</body>
</html>
Note: this is cobbled together from a few other sources - I am a total noob, so please forgive me if I need a little hand-holding...:)

Answer 1

You may specify min_timestamp to return medias which taken later than this timestamp
https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/{user_id}/media/recent/?access_token={access_token}&min_timestamp={min_timestamp}
$instagram_array['pagination']['next_url'] should be removed, it may include your access token which is a sensible data, that must be always invisible.
list_ig.php
<?
$user_id = "...";
$access_token = "...";
//30 day ago
$min_timestamp = strtotime("-30 day",time());
//pagination feature
$next_max_id = $_GET['next_max_id'];
$instagram_url = "https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/" . $user_id . "/media/recent/?access_token=" .$access_token. "&min_timestamp=" . $min_timestamp;
if($next_max_id != "")
$instagram_url .= "&max_id=" . $next_max_id;
$instagram_json = file_get_contents($instagram_url);
$instagram_array = json_decode($instagram_json ,true);
?>
<? if( $instagram_array['pagination']['next_max_id'] != "" ): ?>
More
<? endif;?>
.... print instagram data....
Instagram AJAX Demo
http://jsfiddle.net/ajhtLgzc/