Question

I am using Facebook Connect in my application. Everything works out pretty well. However on my page in constructor, i want to know user already has logged into Facebook i want to display a different page rather than login page. How can i do this? I am using Facebook Developer Toolkit 3.1 and Silverlight 4.0. In short, i want to know whether the user is connected to facebook or not.

Thanks in advance 🙂

Answer 1

Note – this is in MVC – if you are using Silverlight, you may need to modify some of the code.

I’ve used the following. In my “landing page” I have the following:

if (Request.Cookies["AuthenticatedViaFacebook"] != null)
{
    string val = Server.HtmlEncode(Request.Cookies["AuthenticatedViaFacebook"].Value);
    if (val == "true")
    {
        return RedirectToAction("Login", "Account");
    }
}

In the Account/Login page I do a quick re-direct to facebook:

var oAuthClient = new FacebookOAuthClient(FacebookApplication.Current);
oAuthClient.RedirectUri = new Uri(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["RedirectUrl"]);
var loginUri = oAuthClient.GetLoginUrl(new Dictionary<string, object> { { "state", returnUrl } });
return Redirect(loginUri.AbsoluteUri + "&scope=user_birthday");

If it comes back succesfull – I authorize the user and send them into the system.

I store the facebook id in my database, so I know what user it is.

I don’t know of a quicker, or better way of doing it – this works pretty quickly. You see the facebook page url for a second or so and then you are in your system