cross referencing two different URLs.

iinclude

Hi,

If I was collating a bunch of url to be displayed on my site as a list and wanted to check the number of 'likes' or 'share' they were receiviing in facebook via the graph api [this is simply done by taking this url:

https://graph.facebook.com/ and then adding the url that you want to check to it ie.

https://graph.facebook.com/http://www.e-fellows.net/show/detail.php/21049

It displays the following code;

{
"id": "http://www.e-fellows.net/show/detail.php/21049",
"shares": 88
}

So the number next to the "shares" is what I would like to display below the original url which will be displayed on the site, in this case it would be:

http://www.e-fellows.net/show/detail.php/21049

I would like it to be done automated for each time a url that is added. Most of the urls will be added via or form or imported via rss feeds.

thanks.

I am new to this forum 🙂 and very much noob to actual coding although I have been following php for a while and time to step up the game with doing something myself.

dagon

i guess the first place to start is to understand that the return string is json encoded to use in php:

<?php

$str='{
   "id": "http://www.e-fellows.net/show/detail.php/21049",
   "shares": 88
}';

$str=json_decode($str);


echo $str->shares;//88
?>

iinclude

dagon;10970298 wrote:
i guess the first place to start is to understand that the return string is json encoded to use in php:
<?php

$str='{
   "id": "http://www.e-fellows.net/show/detail.php/21049",
   "shares": 88
}';

$str=json_decode($str);


echo $str->shares;//88
?>

Thanks Dragon appreciate this.

If I want to wrap this further in a custom image but including a counter similar to a standard facebook like button thus [uses the javascript SDK]:

<script src="http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1"></script><fb:like href="http://www.e-fellows.net/show/detail.php/21049" layout="box_count" show_faces="false" width="450"></fb:like>

What would be a process?

I would like to display a similar or even exact counter as what facebook provides ie. the number count and the hand with the thumbs up, but would like to use an additiona custom image below those [although i image there may not be a need to actually mix the my custom image with it and keep it completely seperate, would that be a better solution.

I appreciate the response.