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user2546238

Reputation: 11

Get specific fields on user profile. Facebook SDK PHP

I've created a FB app for a client succesfully. However, when I fist time load the app, it takes too much time retrieving users' profile in API

$user_profile = $facebook->api('/me');

In order to reduce the loading time in my page, I just wanna to get the specific fields I need. Is it possible, for example, get only 'username' or 'name' fields?

Thank you

Upvotes: 1

Views: 8220

Answers (3)

Ahmed Albusaidi
Ahmed Albusaidi

Reputation: 161

You can retrieve user id in facebook by:

echo $user_profile['id'];

You can retrieve name by:

echo $user_profile['name'];

Retrieve user first name , last name or middle name:

echo $user_profile['first_name'];

echo $user_profile['last_name'];

echo $user_profile['middle_name'];

Retrieve user location name:

echo $user_profile['location']['name'];

Upvotes: 0

Stéphane Bruckert
Stéphane Bruckert

Reputation: 22973

Sure you can.

$user_profile = $facebook->api('/me?fields=name,username');

But I'm not sure it is going to be faster.

More fields can be found in the doc.

Upvotes: 6

Oscar Jara
Oscar Jara

Reputation: 14187

Well, you need to read some documentation, there is a lot regarding PHP and Facebook.

To get the name you can do the following: 

$name = $user_profile['name'];

To get the username will be easy too (I don't remember exactly what's the key for the username in that array), but you can print all the information from $user_profile by doing the following:

print_r($user_profile);

or 

var_dump($user_profile);

Then you can capture what you need doing the same way as above.

Upvotes: 0

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