Display number of Facebook fans in full text on your WordPress blog

Display number of Facebook fans in full text on your WordPress blog

If you have a Facebook page for your blog, you might want to display how many fans you have. Today’s recipe will help you to get your Facebook fan count, in full text!

Simply paste the following code in any of your theme files, where you want your Facebook fan count to be displayed. Don't forget to add your page ID on line 2!

<?php
	$page_id = "YOUR PAGE-ID";
	$xml = @simplexml_load_file("http://api.facebook.com/restserver.php?method=facebook.fql.query&query=SELECT%20fan_count%20FROM%20page%20WHERE%20page_id=".$page_id."") or die ("a lot");
	$fans = $xml->page->fan_count;
	echo $fans;
?>

Thanks to WP Snippets for the recipe!

6 Responses

Tim

Dec 29 2011 17:18

I think it’s a better way to use the newest graph api like this:
https://graph.facebook.com/PAGE_ID

you get a json response (smaller than xml), so use “json_decode” to get a php Array.

Sachin Khosla

Dec 30 2011 14:49

Probably a much simple and “eyes soothing” code is this –

$data = json_decode(file_get_contents(“https://graph.facebook.com/digimantra”));
echo $data->likes;

Dean Saliba

Dec 30 2011 15:39

Great little trick, I use a plugin to get text counts for Facebook, Twitter & Rss if I can figure out how to get all three without a plugin then I will be happy.