Question

How to store a Facebook user’s friends list in MySQL using PHP?

I am able to get and print the user’s friends list using the PHP code below?

//get friends list
$friends_list = file_get_contents('https://graph.facebook.com/me/friends?access_token=' . $atoken );

$friends_list_array  = json_decode($friends_list,true); 

//convert so that store in mysql 
$my_friends = implode("," , $friends_list_array['data']);
    echo "</br> my friends" . $my_friends;

//result my friendsArray,Array,Array,Array,Array,Array,Array,Array.....

How can I store a friends list in MySQL?

Answer 1

the friends connection will return the friend’s name and id encapsulated in a data array. So you need to go one step down the array and collect the ids before implode:

$friends_list = file_get_contents('https://graph.facebook.com/me/friends?access_token=' . $atoken );
$friends_list_array  = json_decode($friends_list,true);
$arr= $friends_list_array['data'];
$friend_ids_arr = array();
foreach($arr as $friend) {
    $friend_ids_arr[] = $friend['id'];
}
$friend_ids = implode("," , $friend_ids_arr);
echo $friend_ids; // output: id1,id2,id3...etc