Question

I am using the Facebook php sdk v3.2.0, and am only getting an empty data set returned when searching for posts using an AND query like: watermelon+banana. I am currently running this script from the commandline, if that makes any difference:

$facebook = new Facebook(array(
 'appId' => 'MY_APP_ID',
 'secret' => 'MY_SECRET',
));

$q = "watermelon+banana" ;

$search = $facebook->api('/search?q='.$q.'&type=post&limit=10');

foreach ($search as $key=>$value) {
  foreach ($value as $fkey=>$fvalue) {
    print_r ($fvalue);
 }
}

when just going to http://graph.facebook.com/search?q=watermelon+banana&type=post in my browser, I can see the results. Also, when querying $q=”watermelon” it does work. I’ve tried this on different machines but also no dice. Does anyone know what’s going on?

Answer 1

You are encoding + when you don’t need to do so.

So your query in PHP is actually http://graph.facebook.com/search?q=watermelon%2Bbanana&type=post&limit=10

leave out the urlencode function

$q = "watermelon+banana" ;

$search = $facebook->api('/search?q='.$q.'&type=post&limit=10');

So the full code looks like

<?php

require 'facebook.php';

$facebook = new Facebook(array(
    'appId' => 'YOUR_APP_ID',
    'secret' => 'YOUR_SECRET',
));

$q = "watermelon+banana" ;

$search = $facebook->api('/search?q='.$q.'&type=post&limit=10');

foreach ($search as $key=>$value) {
    foreach ($value as $fkey=>$fvalue) {
        print_r ($fvalue);
    }
}

?>