Link to array

[manix]

Okay this is the first time I'm doing this and I don't really know where to start at,

 

Basically I need all the information from this link:

 

https://graph.facebook.com/manixchy

 

to be returned in an array like

 

$facebook["id"] = 100001240111056

$facebook["name"] = "Manix Hmr"

 

and so on for the rest of the information.. Is that like possible?

[JasonLewis]

You'd need to use a combination of cURL and json_decode() to convert the stored object into a PHP-friendly object or array.

[manix]

Erm okay, that seems pretty logical but there's a problem, neither on my localhost nor on the shared hosting where my site is actually being hosted curl is enabled, is there any other way to retrieve a link's information else than curl?

[JasonLewis]

You might try to use file_get_contents, not sure if it will work or not. Make sure you read the notice at the bottom of that manual entry about fopen wrappers.

[manix]

I managed to somehow retrieve it lol, here's the code and it works brilliant

 

$URL = "http://graph.facebook.com/manixchy";
$handle = fopen ($URL, "r");
$key = str_replace(' ', '%20',fread($handle, 1000000));
$key = json_decode($key, true);
var_dump ( $key );

 

Thanks JaySonic

[Acoon]

$data = file_get_contents('https://graph.facebook.com/manixchy');
$facebook = json_decode($data,TRUE);
print_r($facebook)

[manix]

quite shorter, guess I'll use that! Thank you

[manix]

There's a problem.. neither fopen nor file_get_contents manage to open a file using secure connection "https", and if I use unsecured one then facebook API says I need to use a secure connection... Really stuck this time, how do I open "https://graph.facebook.com/272908049391413/feed?access_token=somesuperlongcode" ?

[JasonLewis]

More than likely you're going to need to take advantage of cURL to grab the data off the page. Perhaps ask your host to enable it for you?

[jcbones]

file_get_contents() can use ssl connection.  You can pass that in through the 3rd argument.

 

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php

 

It will take a bit of reading for you to get it in there though.  You will also have to provide a file location of your certificate.  As well as use other functions.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.stream-context-create.php

http://www.php.net/manual/en/context.ssl.php