Re: Facebook authentication in Cakephp -> can't get Facebook user

My thought is you may be having issues with the variable scope. Have
you tried just using local variables and returning the profile? This
is how I have done it in the past and it's worked flawlessly.

On Sep 1, 1:01 pm, koreill1 <korei...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to implement Facebook authentication in my app, but I
> cannot get the user.  Everytime this code is run, if($this->_userid ==
> 0) is true, which sends the application back to the redirect, which is
> the index page of my application.
>
> I'm using PHP SDK 3.0.1.  Can anyone tell why $this->_userid never
> populates?
>
> Thanks
>
>  -------------logic----------------
>
> function __construct($apikey = null, $secretkey = null) {
>
>         // include the vendor
>         App::import('vendor', '/facebook');
>         $this->_apikey = $apikey;
>         $this->_secretkey = $secretkey;
>         // instantiate it
>         $this->_instance = new Facebook(array('appId' => $this->_apikey, 'secret' => $this->_secretkey, 'cookie'=> true));
>
>         $this->_instance->setFileUploadSupport(true);
>
>         $this->_userid = $this->_instance->getUser();
>
>         // If the user is not connected to the application, redirect
> the user to authentication page
>         if($this->_userid == 0) {
>         // If the user is not connected to the application, redirect
> the user to authentication page
>             $login_url = $this->_instance->getLoginUrl($params =
> array('redirect_uri' => REDIRECT_URI,'scope' =>
> PERMISSIONS_REQUIRED));
>
>             echo ("<script> top.location.href='".$login_url."'</
> script>");
>
>         } else {
>     // if the user is already connected, then fetch access_token and
> user's information or show some content to logged in user.
>             try
>             {
>                 $access_token = $this->_instance->getAccessToken(); //
> Gives you current user's access_token
>
>                 $this->_userid = $this->_instance->api('/me'); // Gets
> User's information based on permissions the user has granted to your
> application.
>
>             } catch(FacebookApiException $e){
>                  $results = $e->getResult();
>                  // Print results if you want to debug.
>             }
>
>         }
>
>     }

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