PHP code to get Facebook Like Count

The PHP script to get Facebook like count is pretty simple and straightforward:

$fpageID = '133529600097002';
$finfo = json_decode(file_get_contents('http://graph.facebook.com/' . $fpageID));
$fbcount = $finfo->likes;

$fpageID is the variable to hold your fanpage ID. You can get it from your Facebook fanpage:

After you get Facebook like count, you can display it as simple text using the following PHP code:

echo $fbcount.' like LinuXplained.com';

This will output 32 like BoredBees.com.