Get Facebook Profile URL From Facebook Profile id Using PHP - php

Question

I have a list of Facebook links in xls sheet with Facebook id something like this
and when i go through these links means if i access Facebook with id www.facebook.com/7500
i get urls something like this https://www.facebook.com/davesachs/
so my question is i want to do this with PHP, i have a PHP page which read data from xls sheet
my code here:
require_once 'src/SimpleXLSX.php';
if ( $xlsx = SimpleXLSX::parse('fburl.xlsx') ) {
$rows= $xlsx->rows();
foreach($rows as $data){
echo $data[0].'<br>';
}
} else {
echo SimpleXLSX::parseError();
}
its returning all Facebook link with id same that i am passing like www.facebook.com/7500 but i want it return URL / link of profile as https://www.facebook.com/davesachs/ ,if it is possible please help me to do that.

Answer 1

You can do something like that, Taken reference from here
<?php
require_once 'src/SimpleXLSX.php';
if ( $xlsx = SimpleXLSX::parse('fburl.xlsx') ) {
$rows= $xlsx->rows();
foreach($rows as $data){
getRedirectedUrl($data[0]);
}
} else {
echo SimpleXLSX::parseError();
}
function getRedirectedUrl($link){
$url=$link;
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true); // Must be set to true so that PHP follows any "Location:" header
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$a = curl_exec($ch); // $a will contain all headers
$url = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL); // This is what you need, it will return you the last effective URL
// Uncomment to see all headers
/*
echo "<pre>";
print_r($a);echo"<br>";
echo "</pre>";
*/
echo $url; // Voila
}
?>