What's method for checking user fan of a page in GRAPH API?
Solution 1
UPDATE 2:
To check if the current user is a fan of the Facebook page on landing at your tab check this answer.
UPDATE:
You can use the likes
connection to check if a user is a fan of a page:
https://graph.facebook.com/me/likes/PAGE_ID
&access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN
This would return either an empty data array:
Array
(
[data] => Array
(
)
)
Or if fan:
Array
(
[data] => Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[name] => Real Madrid C.F.
[category] => Professional sports team
[id] => 19034719952
[created_time] => 2011-05-03T20:53:26+0000
)
)
)
So this is how we check using the PHP-SDK:
<?php
require '../src/facebook.php';
// Create our Application instance (replace this with your appId and secret).
$facebook = new Facebook(array(
'appId' => 'APP_ID',
'secret' => 'APP_SECRET',
));
$user = $facebook->getUser();
if ($user) {
try {
$likes = $facebook->api("/me/likes/PAGE_ID");
if( !empty($likes['data']) )
echo "I like!";
else
echo "not a fan!";
} catch (FacebookApiException $e) {
error_log($e);
$user = null;
}
}
if ($user) {
$logoutUrl = $facebook->getLogoutUrl();
} else {
$loginUrl = $facebook->getLoginUrl(array(
'scope' => 'user_likes'
));
}
// rest of code here
?>
Similar script usingJS-SDK:
FB.api('/me/likes/PAGE_ID',function(response) {
if( response.data ) {
if( !isEmpty(response.data) )
alert('You are a fan!');
else
alert('Not a fan!');
} else {
alert('ERROR!');
}
});
// function to check for an empty object
function isEmpty(obj) {
for(var prop in obj) {
if(obj.hasOwnProperty(prop))
return false;
}
return true;
}
Code taken from my tutorial.
While pages.isFan
is still working for me, you can use the FQL page_fan
table with the new PHP-SDK:
$result = $facebook->api(array(
"method" => "fql.query",
"query" => "SELECT uid FROM page_fan WHERE uid=$user_id AND page_id=$page_id"
));
if(!empty($result)) // array is not empty, so the user is a fan!
echo "$user_id is a fan!";
From the documentation:
To read the page_fan table you need:
- any valid
access_token
if it is public (visible to anyone on Facebook).user_likes
permissions if querying the current user.friends_likes
permissions if querying a user's friend.
Solution 2
Here's another approach that relies on the signed_request POST variable that Facebook sends to every tab app page (if you have the "OAuth 2.0 for Canvas" advanced option turned on.
The nice thing about this is you don't need to send another fql.query.
Solution 3
Or you can use fbml if you whant for example show some content if they are fan or made some dinamic stuff.
example:
<fb:fbml version="1.1">
<fb:visible-to-connection>This part is visible for fans only!
<fb:else>This part is visible for non-fans</fb:else>
</fb:visible-to-connection>
</fb:fbml>
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John
Updated on July 09, 2022Comments
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John almost 2 years
In graph api, Pages.isFan method not working, what's method for checking user fan of a page in graph api?
Thanks.
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ifaour about 13 yearsI've written an in-depth tutorial about Checking if user is a fan
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Igy about 12 yearsThe migration option you mentioned is only needed for canvas apps, Page Tab apps will always receive a signed_request
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kasakka almost 11 yearsNote that at least at the time of writing I ran into an issue where if the page was created by me, I couldn't get a like status for myself despite FB showing the page as liked. If I tried with another account then like status was shown as it is supposed to.