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copied!<p>A Recommendation is a Like. You can see it in the reference of the like button :</p> <blockquote> <p><code>action</code> - the verb to display on the button. Options: 'like', 'recommend'</p> </blockquote> <p>To get the counts for a URL (here <code>http://stackoverflow.com</code>), you can make an FQL call :</p> <pre><code> SELECT url, share_count, like_count, comment_count, total_count FROM link_stat WHERE url="http://stackoverflow.com" </code></pre> <h1>Call directly</h1> <pre><code>$fql = 'SELECT url, share_count, like_count, comment_count, total_count FROM link_stat WHERE url="http://stackoverflow.com"'; $json = file_get_contents('https://api.facebook.com/method/fql.query?format=json&query=' . urlencode($fql)); </code></pre> <p>And <code>$json</code> will contain :</p> <pre><code>[ { "url" : "http://stackoverflow.com", "share_count" : 1353, "like_count" : 332, "comment_count" : 538, "total_count" : 2223 } ] </code></pre> <p>You have here :</p> <ul> <li><code>share_count</code> : the counts of shares for the URL</li> <li><code>like_count</code> : the count of likes (= recommendations)</li> <li><code>comment_count</code> : the count of comments in Facebook below shares of that link</li> <li><code>total_count</code> : the sum of theses 3 counts</li> </ul> <p>You can read json in PHP with <code>json_decode</code> :</p> <pre><code>$data = json_decode($json); echo $data[0]->like_count; </code></pre> <h1>Use the Facebook PHP SDK</h1> <p><strong>EDIT</strong> : As Rufinus pointed out int the comments of his answer, for stability reasons, if you are on a long term project and not just a quick experiment you should use the Facebook PHP SDK (<a href="http://github.com/facebook/php-sdk" rel="noreferrer">see on github</a>) to make FQL queries : <strong>Facebook is more and more closing public access</strong> (read without access token) to its API (see <a href="http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/509/" rel="noreferrer">this blog post on Facebook developers blog</a>). Even like here when theses queries are not related to any user : the SDK is using the app access token to make the query.</p> <pre><code>require "facebook.php"; $facebook = new Facebook(array( 'appId' => YOUR_APP_ID, 'secret' => YOUR_APP_SECRET, )); $fql = 'SELECT url, share_count, like_count, comment_count, click_count, total_count FROM link_stat WHERE url="http://stackoverflow.com"'; $result = $facebook->api(array( 'method' => 'fql.query', 'query' => $fql, )); </code></pre> <p>The <code>$result</code> array contains what you need (<code>like_count</code> field) and even more :</p> <pre><code>Array ( [0] => Array ( [url] => http://stackoverflow.com [share_count] => 1356 [like_count] => 332 [comment_count] => 538 [click_count] => 91 [total_count] => 2226 ) ) </code></pre>

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