PHP function to get Facebook status?

Question

I\'m looking for a good, simple PHP function to get my latest Facebook status updates. Anyone know of one?

Thanks!

EDIT: I\'ve added a half

Answer 1

Since I couldn't use the API route, I went with the RSS found at: http://www.new.facebook.com/minifeed.php?filter=11

And used the following PHP function, called StatusPress, with some of my own modifications, to parse the RSS feed for my Facebook status. Works great!

Answer 2

I got it working using Jens' post to retrieve a valid access_token. Then, I extracted the status messages and the time of posting from the xml file using the following code (you can change $limit to display more or less status messages, or use a form to change it).

Be sure to put in your Facebook ID and the access token you got from the app you created (see Jens' post). You can check the output of this script here.

Have fun!

<?php
if(isset($_POST['limit'])) {
    $limit = $_POST['limit'];
}
else {
    $limit = 3; // number of status messages to display
}
$f = fopen ("https://api.facebook.com/method/status.get?uid=YOUR_FACEBOOK_ID&limit=".$limit."&access_token=YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN", "r");

while ($line= htmlentities(fgets($f))) {
    if ($line===FALSE) print ("FALSE\n");
    else
    {
        $content = $content." ".$line;
    }
}
fclose ($f);

$message = explode("&lt;message&gt;", $content); // search for the <message> tag
$message_cnt = count($message);
$msg_index = 0;

$time = explode("&lt;time&gt;", $content); // search for the <time> tag

for($i=1; $i<$message_cnt; $i++)
{
    $tmp = explode("&lt;/message&gt", $message[$i]);
    $msg[$msg_index] = $tmp[0]; // status message

    $tmp2 = explode("&lt;/time&gt", $time[$i]);
    $t[$msg_index++] = $tmp2[0]; // time of posting
}

for($i=0; $i<$msg_index; $i++)
{
     echo("<span class=\"status\">".preg_replace('!\015\012|\015|\012!','<br>',$msg[$i])."</span><br>\n
           <span class=\"date\">on ".date("d.m.Y", $t[$i])." at ".date("H:i",$t[$i])."</span><br><br>\n");

}
?>

Answer 3

<?php
// see http://github.com/facebook/php-sdk/blob/master/facebook.php
require './facebook.php';
// Create our Application instance.
// see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYqx-RtmkeU for how to get these numbers
$facebook = new Facebook(array('appId' => 'XXX','secret' => 'XXX'));
// This call will always work since we are fetching public data.
// this could be /username or /username/friends etc...
// see developer api for FQL for examples
$status = $facebook->api('/haanmc/feed?limit=1');
?>
<p><?php print $status['data'][0]['message']; ?></p>
<p>Likes: <?php print $status['data'][0]['likes']; ?> | Comments: <?php print count($status['data'][0]['comments']['data']); ?></p>
<textarea style="width: 95%; height: 600px;"><?php print_r($status); ?></textarea>

Answer 4

I have tried loads of tutorials over the last few days and none of them have worked. I think it may be due to facebook changing their api requirements. This is the only one I found that works at the moment:

http://www.deanblog.co.uk/article/13/adding-a-facebook-status-feed-to-your-website-with-php

Answer 5

Here is a REALLY simple function if you just want to get the latest status. It doesn't depend on the Facebook SDK or anything. You just need CURL and JSON support.

Simple PHP function to get facebook status

Answer 6

I never seem to get along with PEAR, but if you have better luck than I, then the PEAR solution seems the best route long term.

Another idea is to explore the Facebook Developer API library and see if that might give you anything you are looking for.

Lastly, there used to be a way to get an RSS feed... but I can't seem to find any instructions that work anymore, but you might poke around Facebook help if that interests you. Mine ends up looking something like this:

http://www.new.facebook.com/feeds/status.php?id=[idnumber]&viewer=[viewer]&key=[key]&format=rss20