Posting an image to fan page album using Facebook API

Question

I have created an Facebook App. I need user to be able to post images to my facebook page's album through that App and for that I need to grab Access Token of the page. I can only get access token when I am logged in as an administrator of the page but if I log in with other account I don't get the access token of the page (Even though I liked the page and installed the App). Code is below

$fanpage = 'XXXXXXXXXXXXX';

$pages_arr = array(
'access_token'=>$access_token,
'fields'=>'access_token' 
);

$page_token = $facebook->api('/'.$fanpage, 'get', $pages_arr);
$fanpage_token = $page_token['access_token'];

**//When logged in as admin of the page I get the token but I don't get the token if I am not //page admin**

echo $fanpage_token;

$file = "@".realpath("test.jpg");  
$args = array(
    'message' => 'test',
    'image' => $file,
    'aid' => $album_id,
    'no_story' => 1, 
    'access_token' => $fanpage_token  // note, we use the page token here
);

$photo = $facebook->api("/$album_id/photos", 'post', $args);
if( is_array( $photo ) && ! empty( $photo['id'] ) )
    echo 'Photo uploaded. Check it on Graph API Explorer. ID: ' . $photo['id'];

I asking for following permissions on App install

manage_notifications,user_photos,photo_upload,publish_stream,friends_photos,manage_pages

Tom Waddington Tom Waddington · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-29T00:50:54

I think this is intended behaviour. The manage_pages permission gives access to pages which the user administrates. If you need other (non admin) users to upload to your page, you'll need to store a valid access token for the page in your app. Then, use the saved access token to upload the image provided by the user.

Posting an image to fan page album using Facebook API

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