Another, simpler way to display facebook fan count as text
March 25th, 2012 - 5 Comments »

I can now show you a much simpler way to display your Facebook fan count as text on your website. It is alot simpler than the previous way, although it is entirely up to you how you wish to display it.

Step 1 – Find out your Facebook pages ID

Page ID is the ID of your Facebook Fan Page. If you don’t have a Facebook Fan page, you’ll have to first create one. To get the ID of your Fan page, click edit page, and look for your ID (numbers) at the end of the URL – eg: http://www.facebook.com/pages/edit/?id=XXXXXXXXX

Step 2 – Copy and Paste

Copy and paste the code below anywhere within your website where you would like the Fan count to show. Remember to change the “XXXXXXXXXXXX” to your Facebook Pages ID.

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

<?php

$page_id = "XXXXXXXXXXXX";

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

$fans = $xml->page->fan_count;

echo $fans;

There you have it, a much simpler way of displaying your fan count!

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5 Responses

savan says:

May 8, 2012 at 2:41 pm

Hey,

Just want to say thanks for this. I have searching for this one tried many other links but not getting, Finally i got this link and thats it.

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George Orsmond says:

July 25, 2012 at 8:17 pm

Not a problem Savan!

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nik says:

November 16, 2012 at 6:43 am

Thank you very much for the code, its working correctly! Can you please give me Google+ page circle count?

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Bhavik says:

November 26, 2012 at 3:48 am

I think this is best and easy code article ever seen. i was searching for this right code…
thanks you very much

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Rishi Chavda says:

March 17, 2013 at 9:05 pm

Just to say, I admire programmers with a sense of humour.

or die(“a lot”);

Nice work. This is also a very good tutorial, I used it on my clients’ websites too. Thanks.

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