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Adding Facebook Feeds to you Expression Engine site

Posted on July 8, 2011 by Michael Rosario
Total Posts: 33 | Join date: 03-12-11

We needed to add facebook statuses to our site, and we had access to Facebook Pages’s RSS feed.

So here’s the steps:

Get the RSS feed from Facebook. It looks like:
http://www.facebook.com/feeds/page.php?id=[YOUR_NUMBER]&format=rss20
Use Magpie plugin, for more details go to:
http://expressionengine.com/downloads/details/magpie_rss_atom_parser/
Enable PHP on the template

Here is the code:

<?  $list = “”; ?></p>

{exp:magpie url=”http://www.facebook.com/feeds/page.php?id={YOUR_ID_NUMBER}&format=rss20” limit=”11” refresh=”720”}
    {items}
        <? 
            $pubDate= “{pubdate}”; // Get the date
            $title = “”.”“; // Get the title
            $pubDate = strftime(“%m/%d”, strtotime($pubDate)); //Parse the date
        ?>
        <? 
              if(strlen($title) != 1){ //check if title is empty
                  $list .= “</p>

<dl><dt><b>”. $pubDate.”</b> - “.$title.”</dt></dl>

<p>”; 
              };
          ?>
    {/items}
{/exp:magpie}</p>

<p><? echo $list; ?> // Display Output 

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