I am new to Laravel however and I am following the tutorial on http://www.codeanchor.net/blog/complete-laravel-socialite-tutorial/, to login a user through Facebook into my application. However, almost everywhere I find a tutorial using either Github or Twitter for the Socialite Plugin provided in Laravel.
My problem is that on following everything in the tutorial, as I click on the "Login to Facebook" button, it throws an "Invalid Argument Exception" with No Socialite driver was specified.".
Another stack overflow question seemed to narrow things down:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29673898/laravel-socialite-invalidargumentexception-in-socialitemanager-php-line-138-n
Stating that the problem is in the config/services.php
Now, i have the app_id and app_secret. However, the redirect link seems to be confusing as I can't find it on Facebook either. I am aware that this is where my app should go to Facebook for login, however, unsure of what it should be.
Does anyone have any idea on this.
In your composer.json add- "laravel/socialite": "~2.0",
"require": {
"laravel/framework": "5.0.*",
"laravel/socialite": "~2.0",
the run composer update
In config/services.php add:
//Socialite
'facebook' => [
'client_id' => '1234567890444',
'client_secret' => '1aa2af333336fffvvvffffvff',
'redirect' => 'http://laravel.dev/login/callback/facebook',
],
You need to create two routes, mine are like these:
//Social Login
Route::get('/login/{provider?}',[
'uses' => 'AuthController@getSocialAuth',
'as' => 'auth.getSocialAuth'
]);
Route::get('/login/callback/{provider?}',[
'uses' => 'AuthController@getSocialAuthCallback',
'as' => 'auth.getSocialAuthCallback'
]);
You also need to create controller for the routes above like so:
<?php namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Laravel\Socialite\Contracts\Factory as Socialite;
class AuthController extends Controller
{
public function __construct(Socialite $socialite){
$this->socialite = $socialite;
}
public function getSocialAuth($provider=null)
{
if(!config("services.$provider")) abort('404'); //just to handle providers that doesn't exist
return $this->socialite->with($provider)->redirect();
}
public function getSocialAuthCallback($provider=null)
{
if($user = $this->socialite->with($provider)->user()){
dd($user);
}else{
return 'something went wrong';
}
}
}
and finally add Site URL to your Facebook App like so:
Update 2018 - laravel 5.6 - socialite 3.0
It's little bit tricky for something that looks/should be easy, but anyway this is how i make things works for me.
Server side
you can find those instructions and more details in socialite docs
Installation
composer require laravel/socialite
Configuration
in config/services.php add
'facebook' => [
'client_id' => env('FACEBOOK_CLIENT_ID'),
'client_secret' => env('FACEBOOK_CLIENT_SECRET'),
'redirect' => env('FACEBOOK_CALLBACK_URL'),
],
in .env file add
FACEBOOK_CLIENT_ID=paste_client_id_here
FACEBOOK_CLIENT_SECRET=paste_client_secret_here
FACEBOOK_CALLBACK_URL=https://www.example.com/auth/facebook/callback
in routes/web.php add
Route::get('auth/facebook/', 'Auth\FacebookController@redirect')->name('auth.facebook');
Route::get('auth/facebook/callback', 'Auth\FacebookController@callback')->name('auth.facebook.callback');
in App\Http\Controllers\Auth add new controller FacebookController.php
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers\Auth;
use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\User;
use Socialite;
class FacebookController extends Controller {
/**
* Create a new controller instance.
*
* @return void
*/
public function redirect()
{
return Socialite::driver('facebook')->redirect();
}
/**
* Create a new controller instance.
*
* @return void
*/
public function callback(Request $request)
{
try {
$facebookAccount = Socialite::driver('facebook')->user();
// your logic here...
return redirect()->route('your.route.name');
} catch (Exception $e) {
return redirect()->route('auth.facebook');
}
}
}
Facebook side
go to https://developers.facebook.com/apps and create new app (if you don't have one already)
and make sur your app settings are like below in those screen shots:
Important note
If you are developing in your local machine, you have to use tools like ngrok that provide a secure link to your localhost.
In the facebook login settings change https://www.example.com with the url provided by ngrok something like https://8b0215bc.ngrok.io.
It is the only way that worked for me while developing in my local machine.
Create a provider under your config/services.php file
'facebook' => [
'client_id' => 'your-fb-client-id',
'client_secret' => 'your-fb-secret',
'redirect' => 'http://your-redirect.com/route',
],
now you can create a controller with following code
//this function will redirect users to facebook login page
public function facebook()
{
return \Socialize::with('facebook')->redirect();
}
public function callback()
{
$user = \Socialize::with('facebook')->user();
//now we have user details in the $user array
dd($user);
}
and this is your route
Route::get('facebook', 'LoginController@facebook');
Route::get('callback', 'LoginController@callback');