Facebook - finding users by name

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Published on 2010-04-21T21:39:19Z Indexed on 2010/04/21 21:43 UTC
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Hello Guys,

I'm very new to facebook and wanted to know if this is even possible to do with facebook API.

If a user searches for a name on my website - say "Jamie Smith" - I want to pass this name to facebook and find all users that match that name - so if I can get back their photo and name to display on my site - so users can identify the right person.

I'm using PHP so if there's any example or link that you can provide will be really helpful. Thanks

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