Share count and facebook likes in wordpress loop

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Next I’m trying to put only a count of the shares I had on Facebook on loop of my theme. For this I found the following function and tried to modify it to my need.

Follows the function:

function ia_fb_count($url_post) {
//Get the transient value from database
$fbcount = get_transient( 'fblcount' );
    if ( empty( $fbcount ) ){
        //If no value stored, get the like count
       $file = file_get_contents("http://graph.facebook.com/?ids=$url_post");
            $jd = json_decode($file);
            $fbcount = number_format($jd->{'shares'});

        // Set the facebook likes transient value for 24 Hours
        set_transient('fblcount', $fbcount, 60*60*24 );
        // Also, return it at the same time
        return $fbcount;
    } else {
        // Transient Value is present, return it
        return $fbcount;
    }
}

How I call the function in my theme:

<?php
   $url_post = the_permalink(); 
   echo ia_fb_count($url_post);
?>

Could someone help me?

php wordpress loop facebook-graph-api

  • @Qmechanic73 more in my theme is not showing the Shared count but the url link.. see image: http://www.tickimg.com.br/uploads/_url_faceboo.jpg I need only the facebook Shared count to appear

  • @Qmechanic73 continues calling not only the numbering but the entire http://localhost/wordpress/? p=368851,588 .. I think this function is not catching the link going through Thema.. in $url_post .. I just don’t know how to do it and how to!

  • Doing this manually returns some result?

  • @Qmechanic73 is returning this error: http://localhost/wordpress/? p=36885 Warning: file_get_contents(http://graph.facebook.com/?ids=): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.0 400 Bad Request in C: xampp htdocs wordpress wp-content themes brasilseries functions.php on line 135

  • It must be because you are misformulating the url, see if that knack works.

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The function you are using to get the permalink is wrong. This function returns the link with the html tag: <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">permalink</a>. It is to print the permalink and not to search the URL. In your code you must use the function get_permalink.

As you are called this function by theme, it is important to fetch the post ID. So you can call it off the loop as well. 

<?php
   global $post;
   $url_post = get_permalink($post->ID); 
   echo ia_fb_count($url_post);
?>

Finally, if you are testing on a localhost the Graph api will return an error because it cannot find the URL.

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