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Get JSON response from facebook api restserver

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Your FQL should be encoded, and you can use new url address:

https://api.facebook.com/method/fql.query?query=SELECT%20like_count%20FROM%20link_stat%20WHERE%20url%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fsample.com%22&amp;format=json&amp;access_token=&lt;ACCESS_TOKEN&gt;

serg 2010-08-25 18:41:30

I tried that, I added this code:$json = 'https://api.facebook.com/method/fql.query?query='.rawurlencode('SELECT like_count from link_stat WHERE url="my_url"').' echo $json."<br/>"; var_dump(file_get_contents($json));And var_dump shows bool(false).Any other suggestions?

Michael Lorence 2010-08-25 19:23:58

@Michael You probably need to pass access token as a parameter (I edited the answer). Do you have it?

serg 2010-08-25 19:30:13

No. I once saw how I can get it through facebook api url and passing my app id and secret but I can't find it now. Can you tell me how to obtain the access token?

Michael Lorence 2010-08-25 19:59:15

serg 2010-08-25 20:04:30

I edited the code as you said, but still bool(false)

Michael Lorence 2010-08-25 20:21:34

@Michael Copy your url into browser and see what it says. Are you sure that fql is correct? Copy your fql into test console and it will show you url that was used to run it: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/rest/fql.query

serg 2010-08-25 20:36:13

The first thing I did was check if the fql is ok several times. It is correct, it worked when I used fql with javascript, only I can't get it to work on PHP.

Michael Lorence 2010-08-25 21:12:28

@Michael So when you copy fql url into the browser it works (log out from facebook first) but when you open exactly the same url from php it doesn't?

serg 2010-08-25 22:13:08

Yes, can it be a problem because I'm using file_get_contents? Should I use some other method?btw thank you for your fast support.

Michael Lorence 2010-08-25 22:28:48

@Michael I don't know. PHP says that if file_get_contents returns false it means error occurred. Maybe try other methods - fopen and curl module.

serg 2010-08-25 23:09:50

Could you, please, give me the code to use with curl?And is there a way I could see the error that occurred with file_get_contents?

Michael Lorence 2010-08-26 07:45:15

@Michael curl: http://ca.php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php

serg 2010-08-26 15:03:32

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