WordPress Facebook Comment Count in archive

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I want to display the Facebook comment count on my blog archives.

My wordpress site has the following php function in function.php

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    // Get combined FB and WordPress comment count
    function full_comment_count() {
    global $post;
    $url = get_permalink($post->ID);

    $filecontent = file_get_contents('https://graph.facebook.com/?ids=' . $url);
    $json = json_decode($filecontent);
    $count = $json->$url->comments;
    $wpCount = get_comments_number();
    $realCount = $count + $wpCount;
    if ($realCount == 0 || !isset($realCount)) {
        $realCount = 0;
    }
    return $realCount;
    }

This is how I am using the function on a template file inside a loop <?php echo full_comment_count(); ?>

Most of the time most of the articles show “0” comments. But sometime one or 2 of them work. what am i doing wrong

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  1. Try this

    function full_comment_count() {
global $post;
$url = get_permalink($post->ID);

$filecontent = file_get_contents('https://graph.facebook.com/?ids=' . $url);
$json = json_decode($filecontent);
$count = $json->$url->comments;
if ($count == 0 || !isset($count)) {
    $count = 0;
}
echo $count;
}