Facebook Friend List Counter 0 - php

Question

I have created test app in developer facebook. Trying to get facebook friend list using App id and app Secret.i have created Follow code
<?php
//facebook application configuration
$fbconfig['appid' ] = "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";
$fbconfig['secret'] = "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";
try{
include_once ('.\facebook-php-sdk-master\src\facebook.php');
}
catch(Exception $o){
print_r($o);
}
$facebook = new Facebook(array(
'appId' => $fbconfig['appid'],
'secret' => $fbconfig['secret'],
'cookie' => true,
));
$user = $facebook->getUser();
$loginUrl = $facebook->getLoginUrl(
array(
'scope' => 'email'
)
);
if ($user) {
try {
$user_profile = $facebook->api('/me');
$user_friends = $facebook->api('/me/friends');
$access_token = $facebook->getAccessToken();
} catch (FacebookApiException $e) {
d($e);
$user = null;
}
}
if (!$user) {
echo "<script type='text/javascript'>top.location.href = '$loginUrl';</script>";
exit;
}
$total_friends = count($user_friends['data']);
echo 'Total friends: '.$total_friends.'.<br />';
$start = 0;
while ($start < $total_friends) {
echo $user_friends['data'][$start]['name'];
echo '<br />';
$start++;
}
?>
Finally Run the code in My localhost its showing friend List zero Like this
Total friends: 0.
but I have 2 friends.please any idea about how to resolve my issues? thanks in advance ?

Answer 1

You need to authorize with the user_friends permission. After that, you can use /me/friends to get friends who authorized your App with user_friends too (and only those). It is not possible to get all friends anymore, except for tagging (taggable_friends) or inviting friends to a canvas game (invitable_friends). Check out the changelog to find out about more changes: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/changelog
For more information, check out the answer of this thread, it´s from a Facebook employee: Facebook Graph Api v2.0+ - /me/friends returns empty, or only friends who also use my app

Answer 2

facebook returns your friends list in two scenarios only.
Your app must be in Gaming category.
If your app not comes under games, then it will only returns the list of your friends who liked that particular app.
before getting friends list please check that your app was approved with proper permissions by facebook.