How to count number of f/b likes and show on a web page I have tried using access token but failed.
Any help would be appreciated!! Thank you
I've tried:
<?php $url = 'http://graph.facebook.com/app-id"';
echo '['.$url.']: '.json_decode(file_get_contents($url))->{'likes'}; ?>
And other codes.
But shows only this error:
"Trying to get property of non-object"
Try this code, just call this function with your page id and access_token
First Answer
<?php
function fbLikeCount($id,$access_token){
//Request URL
$json_url ='https://graph.facebook.com/'.$id.'?fields=likes&access_token='.$access_token;
$json = file_get_contents($json_url);
$json_output = json_decode($json);
//Extract the likes count from the JSON object
if($json_output->likes){
return $likes = $json_output->likes;
}else{
return 0;
}
}
//This Will return like count of Facebook page
echo fbLikeCount('page_id','access_token');
?>
Second Answer
function fbLikeCount($id,$access_token){
//Request URL
$json_url ='https://graph.facebook.com/'.$id.'?fields=fan_count&access_token='.$access_token;
$json = file_get_contents($json_url);
$json_output = json_decode($json);
//Extract the likes count from the JSON object
if($json_output->fan_count){
return $likes = $json_output->fan_count;
}else{
return 0;
}
}
echo fbLikeCount('page_id','app_id|app_secret');
I hope this will work for you.
You should use FB api to generate LikeBox "box_count". https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/like-button
Include the JavaScript SDK on your page once, ideally right after the opening <body> tag.
<div id="fb-root"></div>
<script>(function(d, s, id) {
var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];
if (d.getElementById(id)) return;
js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;
js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/pl_PL/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.7&appId=HERE-YOUR-APP-ID";
fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);
}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));</script>
Place this code wherever you want the plugin to appear on your page.
<div class="fb-like" data-href="https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/" data-layout="box_count" data-action="like" data-size="small" data-show-faces="true" data-share="true"></div>
You have to generate app id and replace at step 1 with "HERE-YOUR-APP-ID" Here is example how to generate app id https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/register