How to count likes on FB page?

Question

I have to do a very simple operation but my programming skills are not enough. I have to count likes in Facebook page and print that number on my web-site. I have two script

Answer 1

As you already wrote in your question, you can query such information through Facebooks' Graph API. This short example will get the information of the Coca-Cola page, decode the JSON and outputs the number of people that like the page $data->likes.

");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
$raw = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

$data = json_decode($raw);
echo $data->likes . " people like Coca-Cola";
?>

If you need to perform more tasks than just getting the likes of a page, consider using the Facebook SDK as cpilko suggested.