There are many api that gets the Facebook points like Shares, Likes, Comments and returns it. This Tutorial will get the Facebook likes, shares and comment counts of a specific URL using a php function. The function uses the FQL api of the Facebook and get the data using JSON. The PHP Function returns the Facebook Likes, Shares and Comment Counts. Here is the sample of FQL query to be used on facebook.

FQL Query:

$fql = "SELECT url, normalized_url, share_count, like_count, comment_count, ";

$fql .= "total_count, commentsbox_count, comments_fbid, click_count FROM ";

$fql .= "link_stat WHERE url = '".$url."'";

The query will return the counts you want to get by a normal text. After this, you can get the returned data by using JSON. The JSON code should be like this:

JSON CODE:

$apifql="https://api.facebook.com/method/fql.query?format=json&query=".urlencode($fql);

By using this, you can easily manage and design your Facebook points/stats depending on what you want or your theme designed and not limited on what the Facebook buttons has.

Now lets put it together and make it work. We will combine this in a function.

PHP CODE:

function facebook_shares($url){

$fql = "SELECT url, normalized_url, share_count, like_count, comment_count, ";
$fql .= "total_count, commentsbox_count, comments_fbid, click_count FROM ";
$fql .= "link_stat WHERE url = '".$url."'";

$apifql="https://api.facebook.com/method/fql.query?format=json&query=".urlencode($fql);
$fb_json=file_get_contents($apifql);
return json_decode($fb_json);

}

HOW TO DISPLAY IT 

$fb = facebook_shares('https://www.facebook.com/');

echo 'The URL https://www.facebook.com/ has ';
// facebook share count
echo ' fb shares:'.$fb[0]->share_count;

// facebook like count
echo ' fb likes:'.$fb[0]->like_count;

// facebook comment count
echo ' fb comments:'.$fb[0]->comment_count;

Thats it, we’ve get the facebook stat count of a certain URL. Hope that it helps you on your project.

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