How do I get Facebook page username or facebook page ID from url

Question

I've made a website where users can submit their Facebook page and I orginally coded it assuming that they would of set up a vanity URL for their page. E.g.

http://www.facebook.com/myfacebookpage

But I forgot that some pages can have urls such as

http://www.facebook.com/pages/myfacebookpage/54878424154545487

My question is how do I use PHP to grab the part of the url in bold?

Thanks!

Answer 1

You can just recode your application to use https://graph.facebook.com/?ids=

Which will take both

• http://www.facebook.com/myfacebookpage and
• http://www.facebook.com/pages/myfacebookpage/54878424154545487

Examples

• https://graph.facebook.com/?ids=https://www.facebook.com/boo
• https://graph.facebook.com/?ids=https://www.facebook.com/pages/phwd/113702895386410