Question

I have a function that returns the names and id’s of my friends on facebook. I need help in storing them in an array for accessing them later. Any ideas?

//using JQuery 
function getFriends() {
    alert(" ok lets try and retrieve some friends ");
    FB.api('/me/friends', function (response) {
        if (response.data) {
            alert("waiting for the buddies list");
            $.each(response.data, function (index, friend) {
                console.log(friend.name + ' has id:' + friend.id);
            });
        } else {
            alert("Unable to retrieve friends' list");
        }
    });
}

Answer 1

Replace this line:

console.log(friend.name + ' has id:' + friend.id);

With something like this:

friends.push({'name' : friend.name, 'id' : friend.id});

Although it looks like you’re basically just running through the response data and rebuilding it, perhaps tossing out some extra data from each friend?