Question

I am trying to output the comments of a facebook page in PHP. For example:

http://graph.facebook.com/comments/?ids=http://www.example.com

Can someone please explain how to decode this correctly so I can have all comments appearing on a page?

I have tried a couple of different scripts/expamples but they all seem to be returning no results or an error, so i think maybe the graph API has changed since.

    //get the json string from URL
        $data = file_get_contents("http://www.example.com");

        //transform json to associative array
        $data = json_decode($data, true);

        //use only the comments array
        $comments = $data['http://www.example.com']['comments']['data'];

        foreach($comments as $comment) { 
            echo $comment['from']['name'];
            echo $comment['message'];
        }

Answer 1

//get the json string from URL
$data = file_get_contents("http://graph.facebook.com/comments/?ids=http://www.example.com");

//transform json to associative array
$data = json_decode($data, true);

//use only the comments array
$comments = $data['http://www.example.com']['comments']['data'];

//you should only see the comments array printed
echo "<pre>"; print_r($comments); echo "</pre>";