Creating a social share Counter in PHP

Few days back, I was working on PHP script to count the number of times a URL was shared on different social network. So, I thought to share it with you all. In this script, you only need to enter the URL and it will show you the share count in Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Google+, Stumbleupon, Pinterest, delicious and buffer. Of course you can add more if you want.

But I tried basically only for these social websites. Approach was pretty simple. All websites offers their APIs to count these things. I only used those things.

Demo

If you have ever worked with APIs, you can easily understand how the things are working. For example, I created this function for Twitter.

function get_tweets() { 
$json_string = $this->file_get_contents_curl('http://urls.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=' . $this->url);
$json = json_decode($json_string, true);
return isset($json['count'])?intval($json['count']):0;
}

The above function will return the count of tweets a URL got on Twitter.

A similar kind of code for linkedin

function get_linkedin() { 
$json_string = $this->file_get_contents_curl("http://www.linkedin.com/countserv/count/share?url=$this->url&format=json");
$json = json_decode($json_string, true);
return isset($json['count'])?intval($json['count']):0;
}

The above function will fetch the LinkedIn share cont.

function get_fb() {
$json_string = $this->file_get_contents_curl('http://api.facebook.com/restserver.php?method=links.getStats&format=json&urls='.$this->url);
$json = json_decode($json_string, true);
return isset($json[0]['total_count'])?intval($json[0]['total_count']):0;
}

This function is for counting Facebook share.

You can download the full working code here

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