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Brian Schroeter
Brian Schroeter

Reputation: 1633

Display Number of Facebook Likes as Text

I'm trying to create a widget like the Facebook widget found on this site. I'm not sure how they've done it but somehow they're pulling in the number of Facebook likes from their page via the API. I've found a few examples online but none seemed to work. Is it possible someone could point me in the direction of how I can display the number of Facebook likes (for a page) as text?

Please note that the site I need it for is Wordpress so either an existing plugin or just PHP code will work!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 816

Answers (1)

Kartik
Kartik

Reputation: 9873

This is how you can do it in php:

$fb_handle = "GideonShalwickUpdates";
$graph_url = "https://graph.facebook.com/".$fb_handle."?fields=likes";
$get_data  = file_get_contents($graph_url);
$get_json  = json_decode($get_data);

$likes = $get_json->likes;

echo $likes;

Upvotes: 3

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