Get specific fields on user profile. Facebook SDK PHP

Question

I've created a FB app for a client succesfully. However, when I fist time load the app, it takes too much time retrieving users' profile in API

$user_profile = $facebook->api('/me');

In order to reduce the loading time in my page, I just wanna to get the specific fields I need. Is it possible, for example, get only 'username' or 'name' fields?

Thank you

Answer 1

Sure you can.

$user_profile = $facebook->api('/me?fields=name,username');

But I'm not sure it is going to be faster.

More fields can be found in the doc .

Answer 2

Well, you need to read some documentation , there is a lot regarding PHP and Facebook .

To get the name you can do the following:

$name = $user_profile['name'];

To get the username will be easy too ( I don't remember exactly what's the key for the username in that array ), but you can print all the information from $user_profile by doing the following:

print_r($user_profile);

or

var_dump($user_profile);

Then you can capture what you need doing the same way as above.

Answer 3

You can retrieve user id in facebook by:

echo $user_profile['id'];

You can retrieve name by:

echo $user_profile['name'];

Retrieve user first name , last name or middle name:

echo $user_profile['first_name'];

echo $user_profile['last_name'];

echo $user_profile['middle_name'];

Retrieve user location name:

echo $user_profile['location']['name'];