Returns your Facebook Fan Count (now likes). Reduces the Facebook Graph API calls by updating hourly and serving a database cached result in between.
| Author: | Derek Herman (profile at wordpress.org) |
| WordPress version required: | 2.7 |
| WordPress version tested: | 3.0.5 |
| Plugin version: | 1.2 |
| Added to WordPress repository: | 01-12-2010 |
| Last updated: | 06-12-2010
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
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| Plugin URI: | http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/fan-count... |
| Total downloads: | 1 829 |
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Returns a database stored Facebook Fan Count in plain text or number format. Reduces the Facebook Graph API calls by only updating the fan count hourly and serving a database cached result in between. The account you're attempting to get a "Fan Count" from must be a page you can become a fan of. Regular account ID's for non-fan pages will return a zero result.
You can use the function <?php fan_count( $id, $default, $echo, $format ); ?> in your theme files. The following is an explanation of the parameters the function excepts.
- @param array $ids an array of Facebook IDs
- @param int $default your fallback fan count during a zero result: default 0
- @param bool $echo return or echo: default true (echo)
- @param bool $format return as plain integer or number formatted: default true (number format)
For example, if I was Psdtuts+ and wanted to echo out a fan count that had a fallback or default fan count in the unlikely event nothing is stored in the database or there is a weird zero result returned, I would do the follow.
<?php fan_count( 'psdtuts', 15000 ); ?>If I wanted to save the count to a variable as a plain integer that I could add to another count or something similar I would do this.
<?php $fan_count = fan_count( 'psdtuts', 15000, false, false ); ?>If I wanted to echo a formatted count form an array of $ids with a fallback, I would do this.
<?php fan_count( array( 'psdtuts', 'nettuts' ), 15000 ); ?>