how to display latest recent posts in my facebook page to my website
Here is the PHP code. You need to place this in your template.
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<?php
//function to retrieve posts from facebook’s server
function loadFB($fbID){
$url = "http://graph.facebook.com/".$fbID."/feed?limit=3";
// Update by MC Vooges 11jun 2014: Access token is now required:
$url.= '&access_token=YOUR_TOKEN|YOUR_ACCESS_SECRET';// *
//load and setup CURL
$c = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
//get data from facebook and decode JSON
$page = json_decode(curl_exec($c));
//close the connection
curl_close($c);
//return the data as an object
return $page->data;
}
/* Change These Values */
// Your Facebook ID
$fbid = "190506416472588";
// How many posts to show?
$fbLimit = 10;
// Your Timezone
date_default_timezone_set("America/Chicago");
/* Dont Change */
// Variable used to count how many we’ve loaded
$fbCount = 0;
// Call the function and get the posts from facebook
$myPosts = loadFB($fbid);
//loop through all the posts we got from facebook
foreach($myPosts as $dPost){
//only show posts that are posted by the page admin
if($dPost->from->id==$fbid){
//get the post date / time and convert to unix time
$dTime = strtotime($dPost->created_time);
//format the date / time into something human readable
//if you want it formatted differently look up the php date function
$myTime=date("M d Y h:ia",$dTime);
?>
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<li><?php echo($dPost->message) . $myTime; ?></li>
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<?php
//increment counter
$fbCount++;
//if we’ve outputted the number set above in fblimit we’re done
if($fbCount >= $fbLimit) break;
}
}
?>
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Two things you must do for working out this script.
Make sure your server is cURL enabled
You will have change the Facebook ID in the script by yours.
* You can get the access token this way:
$token = 'https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?client_id='.APP_ID.'&client_secret='.APP_SECRET.'&grant_type=client_credentials';
$token = file_get_contents($token); // returns 'accesstoken=APP_TOKEN|APP_SECRET'
- Login to facebook
- Go to facebok developers section "Apps"
- Register new app, you need only to register new app, all additional data is optional
- Copy your App ID/API Key and App Secret from that same "Apps" section.
- Copy facebook.php and base_facebook.php files from repo to your server
Use polymorphic query to api, to request wall content from facebook account
require 'facebook.php'; $facebook = new Facebook(array( 'appId' => 'YOUR_APP_ID', 'secret' => 'YOUR_APP_SECRET', )); $fbApiGetPosts = $facebook->api('/YOUR_FACEBOOK_ACCOUNT_ID/feed?limit=5'); if (isset($fbApiGetPosts["data"]) && !empty($fbApiGetPosts["data"])) { // display contents of $fbApiGetPosts["data"] array }
Replace YOUR_APP_ID with your app ID, YOUR_APP_SECRET with your app secret and YOUR_FACEBOOK_ACCOUNT_ID with target facebook account, you want to get posts from.
Polymorphic query basically is path/URL. More info inside previously mentioned facebook api reference docs.
If your target facebook account wall is public, you won't need anything else that this, to view them.
I had trouble with Okky's answer here, and I found a possible, albeit not ideal workaround.
Use an RSS feed of your Facebook wall, then simply parse it with an RSS reader of your choosing.
https://www.facebook.com/feeds/page.php?format=rss20&id=YOUR_UNIQUE_ID
Here is a quick way to get your ID