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Revision: 59897
at October 8, 2012 22:23 by ginoplusio
Initial Code 
function readFacebookLikes($url) {
    $query = "select total_count from link_stat WHERE url ='" . $url ."'";
    $s = file_get_contents("https://api.facebook.com/method/fql.query?query=".
             urlencode($query)."&format=json");
    preg_match("#(\"total_count\"):([0-9]*)#",$s,$ar);
    if(isset($ar[2])) return $ar[2]; else return null;
}
Initial URL 
http://www.barattalo.it/2012/10/08/how-to-read-facebook-likes-count/
Initial Description 
When you add facebook like button to your site, probably, you also want to save the number of likes of your pages to your database.These data are very useful and very important because they tell you which of your articles are better than others. Moreover, these pages are better than others because the user has decided to tell his friends about it.
Initial Title 
How to read facebook like count for a url with PHP
Initial Tags 
php, facebook
Initial Language 
PHP