Aug
13
2011
Facebook // How to // Misc // PHP

How to get number of friend (friend count) in facebook using graph api

Author An article by Muhammad Farhan Bashir    Comments 8 Comments

In my previous blog I have told you that how to get the count for a fanpage. You can check it here.
Now today I will tell you how to get the friends of a friend using graph api..
I assume that you know the authentication process and all the basic :-)

I assume that you are using the facebook official php sdk. That you can download from GITHUB.

So here is the function by which you can get the count or total friends for a particular user.

function fb_get_friendcount($user_id, $access_token, $count=false)
{
	$fb = new Facebook(array(
        'appId'  => app_id,
        'secret' => app_secret,
        'cookie' => true, // enable optional cookie support
));
	$result = $fb->api("/".$user_id."/friends",array("access_token"=>$access_token));
	if($count == true)
		return count($result["data"]);
	else
		return $result["data"];
}

Here we will pass the count parameter FALSE if we need only the count of friends and if we need a complete array we do not need to pass the third parameter

Hope this will help :-) . Feel free to ask any question

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