Facebook App: Getting a user's name from ID -
i had fb app project turned on me, , i'm trying clean few items before goes live.
the original programmer has user id number stored in database, doesn't display or name. i'd display user's name under picture upload.
my code <?php echo $row['user_id']; ?>
, there simple way convert user's name?
call id api name field.
https://graph.facebook.com/user_id?fields=name
it should return
{ "name": "first lastname", "id": "user_id" }
save variable , extract
$user['name'];
for more information http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/user/
an example without sdk/access token,
$response = file_get_contents("https://graph.facebook.com/4?fields=name"); $user = json_decode($reponse,true); echo $user['name'];
should print,
'mark zuckerberg'
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