get facebook user gender using facebook graph api

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I made a code to display user's friends and the name,id and profile pic of the friend. The problem was to get the gender of the friend and made the code below the first code .but it does not seems to work but it works in case of getting my gender information .

 function displayUsersIcons($criteria) { $users = $criteria['users']; $nb_display = $criteria['nb_display']; $width = $criteria['width']; echo 'data'.$gen = $criteria['gen']; if($width=='') $width="200"; if($nb_display>count($users) || $nb_display=='') $nb_display=count($users); //display value never bigger than nb users $display = ''; for($i=0;$i<$nb_display;$i++) { $name = $users[$i]['name']; $picture = $users[$i]['picture']; $url = $users[$i]['url']; $user_id = $users[$i]['id']; $cookie = self::$cookie; if($cookie['access_token']!='') { $url = 'https://graph.facebook.com/'.$name.'?access_token='.$cookie['access_token']; //echo '<a href="'.$url.'" target="_blank">'.$url.'</a><br>'; $data = json_decode($this->getDataFromUrl($url)); $fb['gender'] = $data->gender; $gender=$fb; $display .= '<li class="mispan main-span" gen="'.$gender.'" data="'.$user_id.'" unme="'.$name.'" upic="'.$picture.'">'; $display .= '<div class="thumbnail">'; $display .= '<h3 class="miheader">'.$name.'</h3>'; $display .= '<a href="'.$url.'" target="_blank" title="'.$name.'">'; $display .= '<div class="miprofile-pic-cnt" style="background-image:url('.$picture.')" ></div>'; $display .= '</a>'; $display .= '<div class="caption" style="text-align:center;">'; $display .= '<p><a href="#" class="btn kssico miclickks"><img src="Iconos/lips.png" /></a> <a href="#" class="btn bdico miclickbd"><img src="Iconos/bed.png" /></a></p>'; $display .= '</div>'; $display .= '</div>'; $display .= '</li>'; } return $display;

}

the code to get friends gender

$cookie = self::$cookie; if($cookie['access_token']!='') { $url = 'https://graph.facebook.com/'.$name.'?access_token='.$cookie['access_token']; //echo '<a href="'.$url.'" target="_blank">'.$url.'</a><br>'; $data = json_decode($this->getDataFromUrl($url)); $fb['gender'] = $data->gender; $gender=$fb;

karthikr · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-14 02:40:24Z

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http://graph.facebook.com/<facebook_id>?fields=gender

fields=gender gives you the gender for the given facebook id.

answered May 14, 2013 at 2:40

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AKS Over a year ago

... if the user's permissions allows to get this field publicly.

user1001176 Over a year ago

such a elegant solution for such a big code. lol . It worked like a charm thanks .

karthikr Over a year ago

@BenMarten It does. We use it in our project, and still works. Is there a specific issue you ar efacing?

electronix384128 Over a year ago

It does actually not work if you have an app_scoped_user_id :( Any ideas? workarounds?

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