FB 'pages' have $pageID, what's a website equivalent? - php

Question

I'm trying to write a simple app for my website and struggling with 1 point.
A Facebook Page has;
$pageID = 'dorimedia';
What does a website have that is equal? I want to get the value to show how many times an external website has been 'liked'.

Answer 1

Nothing.
You could use the domain name, or domain name + path as in full route, but no short ID per se.
http://www.google.com could be the id
http://www.google.com/route could also be an id
If you need something shorter, and not necessarily readable by you, you could hash it or apply some encrypting algorithm to the full url to get a shorter id, try looking into the md5,sha1 or hash methods (assuming your using php)
UPDATE
If what you need is how many facebook like's a website has, there is an API for this directly from google that goes like this:
http://api.facebook.com/restserver.php?method=links.getStats&urls=www.google.com
Which results in an xml response that includes, comments, likes and other interesting information. Google for instance has the following response:
<links_getStats_response xmlns="http://api.facebook.com/1.0/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://api.facebook.com/1.0/ http://api.facebook.com/1.0/facebook.xsd" list="true">
<link_stat>
<url>www.google.com</url>
<normalized_url>http://www.google.com/</normalized_url>
<share_count>2095550</share_count>
<like_count>795778</like_count>
<comment_count>705595</comment_count>
<total_count>3596923</total_count>
<click_count>265614</click_count>
<comments_fbid>381702034999</comments_fbid>
<commentsbox_count>307</commentsbox_count>
</link_stat>
</links_getStats_response>
Then its a matter of extracting the information from that XML, easily enough like this:
$url = "http://api.facebook.com/restserver.php?method=links.getStats&urls=".urlencode($source_url);
$xml = file_get_contents($url);
$xml = simplexml_load_string($xml);
$shares = $xml->link_stat->share_count;
$likes = $xml->link_stat->like_count;
$comments = $xml->link_stat->comment_count;
$total = $xml->link_stat->total_count;
$max = max($shares,$likes,$comments);
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