class Example extends CI_Controller {
function __construct()
{
parent::__construct();
}
function index()
{
$this->load->library('facebooklib');
$user = $this->facebooklib->getUser();
if ($user) {
try {
$data['user_profile'] = $this->facebooklib->api('/me');
} catch (FacebookApiException $e) {
$user = null;
}
}
var_dump($_REQUEST);
if ($user) {
$data['logout_url'] = $this->facebooklib->getLogoutUrl();
} else {
$data['login_url'] = $this->facebooklib->getLoginUrl();
}
$this->load->view('view',$data);
}
}
After clicking on the Login link, I am taken to Facebook permissions page, I accept, and I am returned to the same page with no data.
array(3) {
["/example"]=>
string(0) ""
["PHPSESSID"]=>
string(32) "33a446883d4fb1877fb6dcff6d70799a"
["ci_session"]=>
string(311) "a:4:{s:10:"session_id";s:32:"d8bb3926550e3ec1b9d075b456708e9b";s:10:"ip_address";s:9:"127.0.0.1";s:10:"user_agent";s:120:"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_8) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.168 Safari/535.19";s:13:"last_activity";i:1336011855;}c874fb95984396f04ab6cc17217102d7"
}
My $_REQUEST dump doesn't really show signed_request, which is a problem.
Despite all the downvotes, I was able to find the solution to this VERY serious BUG found in Facebook PHP-SDK with CodeIgniter.
So here's the solution found in CI forums: http://codeigniter.com/forums/viewthread/202370/#986781
// Stop cache
$this->ci->output->set_header("Cache-Control: private, no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
$this->ci->output->set_header("Pragma: no-cache");
// IE Fix
if(strpos($this->ci->agent->agent_string(), 'MSIE') !== FALSE) {
$this->ci->output->set_header('p3p: CP="ALL DSP COR PSAa PSDa OUR NOR ONL UNI COM NAV"');
}
// Repopulate _REQUEST ... Facebook needs it.
$request_uri = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$request_uri = explode('?',$request_uri);
if(count($request_uri) > 1) {
parse_str($request_uri[1], $_REQUEST);
}
For some reason, the new PHP SDK doesn't pass $_REQUEST through CodeIgniter. There's also issues with cache, and IE not having proper header.
So this builds $_REQUEST from $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], which then properly passes through Facebook class and successfully returns proper data.
Use this instruction this might help
$signed_request = isset($_REQUEST['signed_request']) ? $_REQUEST['signed_request'] : $this->modelfacebook->signRequest();
According to one of the answers in this post, CodeIgniter purges the $_REQUEST variable for security reasons. I assume it's related to the automatic input filtering described in the Codeigniter Manual here, but it's not specifically mentioned there either though. I am unsure whether setting
$config['global_xss_filtering'] = TRUE;
in config.php affects it or not (I have it set to TRUE in mine), but at least now you/we know why the $_REQUEST variable is not available.
Interestingly, I have the FB SDK library in my CIApplication/libraries/ folder and it seems to access the $_REQUEST variable fine, just not in my views or controllers.
Was looking for the answer to the same question when I came across this post - and yours is a perfectly valid, good question too!
Cheers
Matt