Why is Facebook PHP SDK getUser always returning 0?

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I'm trying to work with a website that requires some information from a Facebook user, I'm using PHP and JS SDKs.

I have a function in PHP:

public function isLoggedOnFacebook() {
    $user = $this->_facebook->getUser();
    if ($user) {
        return $this->_facebook->api("/$user");
    }
    return false;
}

On a class that is holding the facebook object from the SDK in $this->_facebook.

Then on a block I do this:

<?php if (!$this->isLoggedOnFacebook()): ?>
<div>
   <fb:login-button show-faces="true" perms="email" width="500" />
</div>
<?php endif ?>

And the FB JS environment is properly set up (I think) so it works. So the user gets the pop up and authorizes the site.

The problem is even after the app is been authorized by the user $user is always 0, meaning $facebook->getUser() always returns 0, and then lists the faces of users, including the logged user, but if I make it call $facebook->api('/me') or whatever, then it'll throw the invalid token exception.

I've seen this problem, but I haven't seen a solution, I have no idea where the problem is and I run out of ideas.

There's a Website tab on the developers' Facebook page in the apps section, where you can set up your Site URL and your Site Domain, and I'm thinking this are the cause of my problem, but I have no knowledge of exactly what these fields are supposed to contain.

Answers

The answer to my specific issue was that there were incompatibilities between the versions of the JS SDK and PHP SDK I was using and just upgrading them solved it.

The symptom of this issue is similar when it's caused by a variety of different things so you may do very well in scouting through the different answers available in this page.

Saturday, October 8, 2022

sibtain-9b23db6fdb7d

Looks like there is only one nice way to achieve this:

Although /me/groups requires user_groups permission to retrieve groups the user is a member of, it can return groups created by the app without it (given there is a valid access token of course).

So - while it's clearly not as nice and seamless as I wanted it to be - my solution was to create a new Facebook group using the app (requires only a POST request) and move current members to this new one.

Edit: moving members is not a possibility, joining an app group is only possible programatically using the SDK. Therefore, when a user is not a member of this group, I'll prompt them to join. It means that everybody can join and I have to manually ban those I don't like instead of manually allowing those I want to, but given the low publicity, I can deal with this.

Thursday, December 22, 2022

andy_west

For security and privacy as well, Facebook users must login and allow the current application to have access to their account information. You can accomplish this using different SDK. Most people use Javascript but I persoally prefer PHP. As simple implementation in HTML is shown below:

<a href="<?php echo $this->facebook->getLoginUrl(array('next' => "http://www.yourdomain.com/facebooklogin_success", 'req_perms' => 'email,read_stream,publish_stream,offline_access'))?>">Login to Facebook</a>

It will generate something like:

<a href="https://www.facebook.com/login.php?api_key=1234567890&cancel_url=http%3A%2F%2Fyourdomain.com/facebooklogin_cancel.php%2F&display=page&fbconnect=1&next=http%3A%2F%2Fyourdomain.com/facebooklogin_success.php&return_session=1&session_version=3&v=1.0&req_perms=email%2Cread_stream%2Cpublish_stream%2Coffline_access">Login to Facebook</a>

you should be able to access the user's information after that process using Graph API.

$fbuser = $facebook->api('/me');
echo "Hello ".$fbuser['name'];

Let me know if works for you.

Thursday, December 8, 2022

ian_hunter

In base_facebook.php add the following 2 lines under $CURL_OPTS:

CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => false,
CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST => 2

Which makes it...

public static $CURL_OPTS = array(
    CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT => 10,
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_TIMEOUT        => 60,
    CURLOPT_USERAGENT      => 'facebook-php-3.2',
    CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => false,
    CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST => 2
  );

I'm not sure how much of a security issue this is, but it makes the Login with Facebook work, so there you have it.

EDIT: New SDK released which fixes this problem: https://github.com/facebook/facebook-php-sdk

Saturday, October 29, 2022

mohammadreza_yektamaram

You can do it by passing the following items in the array:

'name' => "post title",
'link' => "url to the page",
'message'=> "message",
'description' => "longer description",
'picture'=>"url of the picture",
'caption' => "Another bit of text"

This removes any reliance on the FB scraper to go out to the url and scrape and parse the data.

Sunday, August 7, 2022

mike_gorski

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