I have crawled around lots of various answers but am still a bit confused with how I should be dealing with facebook access tokens. One of the main problems I'm having is due to what information is being stored in my browser. For example, I log onto the app, the token expires, I can't logon again unless I clear cookies/app settings in browser.
I stumbled across this thread: How to extend access token validity since offline_access deprecation
Which has shown me how to create an extended access token through php.
My questions are:
1. Do I need to store the access token anywhere?
2. What happens when the access token expires or becomes invalid? At the moment, my app simply stops working when the short term access ones expire.
3. Is there a way I should be handling them to check if they have expired? I am using the php sdk and have basically used the standard if( $user )... Like this:
require 'sdk/src/facebook.php';
$facebook = new Facebook(array(
'appId' => 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX',
'secret' => 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX',
));
$user = $facebook->getUser();
if( $user ){
try{
$user_profile = $facebook->api('/me');
} catch (FacebookApiException $e) {
error_log($e);
$user = null;
}
}
if (!$user){
$params = array(
'scope' => 'email',
);
$loginUrl = $facebook->getLoginUrl( $params );
echo '<script type="text/javascript">
window.open("'. $loginUrl .'", "_self");
</script>';
exit;
}
if( $user ){
$access_token = $facebook->getExtendedAccessToken();
$get_user_json = "https://graph.facebook.com/me?access_token="
. $access_token;
// Rest of my code here...
}
- Is there anything else I should be doing to handle tokens?
. Should I be passing the access token between pages or is it ok to just call it again at the top of each page like this:
$facebook = new Facebook(array(
'appId' => 'XXXXXXXXXXXX',
'secret' => 'XXXXXXXXXXXX',
'redirect_uri' => 'http://localhost:8000/',
));
$token = $facebook->getExtendedAccessToken();