Question

I am attempting to access a user’s friends work and education history using the Graph API. I have included both permissions in the auth dialogue. I have tried accessing them using FQL but have had no luck.

try{
        $fql    =   "select friends_education_history from permissions where uid=" . $user;
        $param  =   array(
            'method'    => 'fql.query',
            'query'     => $fql,
            'callback'  => ''
        );
        $fqlResult   =   $facebook->api($param);
    }
    catch(Exception $o){
        d($o);
    }
}

I’d prefer to access the info without using FQL but at this point, I need to figure out ANY way. Is there a way to do something like this:

 if($user_id) {
  try {
        $friends = $facebook->api("/me/friends");
    }
    catch(Exception $o){
        d($o);
    }
}
?>

And then call the respective variables?

Answer 1

Your FQL query would look something like this:

SELECT education,work from user WHERE uid IN (SELECT uid2 FROM friend WHERE uid1 = me())

Above query will fetch all education and work objects from friends of the logged in user.

SELECT education,work from user WHERE uid = <YOUR FRIENDS USER ID>

Above query will get education and work for just the one user id you provide

Hope this helps!