Facebook Api Search for people like"Andre"

Discussion in 'Facebook API' started by kissthechief, Jul 20, 2012.

  1. #1
    Hello

    Ive Created a new App on facebook to get all my IDs and token and implentend my code
    Im trying to find all people with “Andre” but i dont get any results back
    Is there a way to find People throught the API without the ID or the whole name?
    to make it easier for you to help me
    
    
    function callFb($url)
    {
        $ch = curl_init();
        curl_setopt_array($ch, array(
            CURLOPT_URL => $url,
            CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true
        ));
     
        $result = curl_exec($ch);
        curl_close($ch);
        return $result;
    }
     $url =  “https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?client_id=myClientId&redirect_uri=myurl.php&client_secret=thisstaysaSecret;
    $access_token = callFb($url);
    $access_token = substr($access_token, strpos($access_token, “=”)+1, strlen($access_token));
    $url = “https://graph.facebook.com/search?access_token=$access_token&q=Andre&type=user”;
    $ret_json = callFb($url);
    $users = json_decode($ret_json, true);
    echo”$users[id]“;
    ?>
     
    PHP:
    Any Ideas whats wrong?
     
    Last edited: Jul 20, 2012
    kissthechief, Jul 20, 2012 IP
  2. inout

    inout Greenhorn

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    there is some issue sometimes with facebook, they only return result some time..i will give an example of one i did similar soon i need to find where it is.. its been a long time. tomorrow i will post
     
    inout, Aug 8, 2012 IP