I have been stuck with this problem for a while now, and I just gave up today, I realized I really badly need help, and i couldn't find any posts addressing a similar issue.. so
I am trying to create a facebook app (since jan 1 2012 - incase there has been any standards change, you guys can tell me about it), and I have properly set my canvas url.
So right now when you visit my app on facebook, as apps.facebook.com/canvas-page you can see my app. However I am having problem with authentication.
My app requires basic information, and email address of the user trying to access it.
So as far as I have gotten so far, I have set it so that new users can see the authentication dialog and then visit my app. On visiting my app I want my app to be able to access the information as I stated above. However on my canvas page I did the following for code in php, and nothing else, I want to be able to see what information is passed on to my app by the facebook referral from the authentication dialog:
<?php
print_r($_GET);
echo "\n";
print_r($_POST);
?>
However sadly this is giving me empty arrays, and nothing else.
All I really need for my Facebook app is the access_token, and the user id, although I am pretty sure I can access the current user's id by visiting graph.facebook.com/me?access_token=[access token provided from somewhere]
so thats my first problem, second problem is that when I logout of facebook and I visit apps.facebook.com/canvas-page I don't get asked to login, why is that so? Do I have to redirect to Facebook using JavaScript to login and then refer to my app?
Currently these are my settings (ask for more info so that i can give them to you) Settings > Auth Dialog > Authenticated referrals > User & Friend permission = email Settings > Auth Dialog > Authenticated referrals > Auth Token parameter = ?code=
Settings > Advanced > migrations = ALL ENABLED
FB use Signed Request to send data to your app (not $_POST, not $_GET). There is a chapter called
signed_request Parameter
in Sample Canvas App that talk about it.Using php-sdk you can obtain it like this:
Besides you can pass a parameter called
app_data
through URL:You will get it in the
$signed_request
too.Please comment! Thanks.-