title: Facebook - retrieving comment-count from fb:comments using href?
body: <p>I've integrated fb:comments using the href parameter, but I am now stuck in a situation where I need to retrieve the comment count without fb:comment-count.</p>
  
  <p>I normally use an FQL query such as below...</p>
  
  <pre><code>$result = $facebook-&gt;api(array(
      'query' =&gt; 'SELECT post_id FROM comment WHERE xid = "' . $xid . '"', 
      'method' =&gt; 'fql.query'));
  
  $comment_count = count($result);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However, there is no href column present in the comment table. Is there another way to do this? I have tried seeing if xid and href are interchangeable... no luck there. I'm also finding that fb:comments plugins created with xid id's are breaking a lot on me (see <a href="http://65beta.us/fb/fb1.php" rel="nofollow">http://65beta.us/fb/fb1.php</a> ).</p>
  
  <p>Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!</p>