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Drawing a graphical representation or graph of links between friends

Hi folks,

I am looking out for a open source API(preferably in PHP) through which I can draw a graphical representation or a graphical structure to represent the network of friends in Facebook(Nodes being the friends).

Any of you have come across this before? Any help would be highly appreciated.

Thanks, J

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Give Graphviz a try. There's a PHP wrapper available at http://pear.php.net/package/Image_GraphViz/docs/latest/GraphViz/Image_GraphViz.html

IvanGoneKrazy  2010-09-24 05:57:32
I was thinking there should be some inbuilt facebook api or package to fetch these stuff?
Abhishek  2010-09-24 08:47:08
Perhaps I misunderstood your question. Are you asking for a way to draw a representation of the node-edge data or for a way to gather the node-edge data itself?
IvanGoneKrazy  2010-09-24 18:27:31
I am sorry for not making it clear. I am looking out for a way to draw a graph to show the relationship between friends in Facebook. Example: A is a friend of B and B is a friend of C, then first level graph of A should should show B, second level should show C and so on....
Abhishek  2010-09-25 09:15:06

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