Return a count of Facebook Likes, Shares, Comments from Fan Pages.

fb-numbers.php

<?php
/**
 * Return the number of Likes, Shares, or Comments of a given Fan Page.
 */
function facebook_numbers( $url ) {

    $fql  = 'SELECT url, normalized_url, share_count, like_count, comment_count, ';
    $fql .= 'total_count, commentsbox_count, comments_fbid, click_count FROM ';
    $fql .= 'link_stat WHERE url = "' . $url . '"';

    $apifql = 'https://api.facebook.com/method/fql.query?format=json&query=' . urlencode( $fql );
    $fb_json = file_get_contents( $apifql );
    
    return json_decode( $fb_json );

}

$fb = facebook_numbers( 'https://www.facebook.com/FANPAGE' );

$fb_shares   = $fb[0]->share_count;
$fb_likes    = $fb[0]->like_count;
$fb_comments = $fb[0]->comment_count;

?>