I was following the tutorial here: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/how-to-authenticate-your-users-with-facebook-connect/ But I can’t get past the first

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I was following the tutorial here: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/how-to-authenticate-your-users-with-facebook-connect/ But I can’t get past the first

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I was following the tutorial here: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/how-to-authenticate-your-users-with-facebook-connect/

But I can’t get past the first step in allowing users to authorize my app. The app is at http://apps.facebook.com/freelancergame/ while the canvas URL is http://freelancer.xylotgames.com

I check via PHP whether there is an active session with the user. If it doesn’t exist, I redirect the user to the login URL. Here is the code at the top of the page:

// Facebook library
require 'src/facebook.php';

// Create our Application instance
$facebook = new Facebook(array(
    'appId'  => 'xxxxxx',
    'secret' => 'xxxxxxxxxxxx',
    'cookie' => true,
));

// Let's see if we have an active session
$session = $facebook->getSession();

$me = null;
// Session based API call.
if (!empty($session)) {
    // Active session; let's try getting the user ID and info
    try {
        $uid = $facebook->getUser();
        $me = $facebook->api('/me');
    } catch (FacebookApiException $e) {
        error_log($e);
    }
    $logoutUrl = $facebook->getLogoutUrl();
    print_r($user);
    exit();
} else {
    // There's no active session; let's generate one
    $loginUrl = $facebook->getLoginUrl();
    header('Location: ' . $loginUrl);
}

The thing is, upon visiting http://apps.facebook.com/freelancergame/ I am brought to a screen with the blue Facebook logo and a link saying “Go to Facebook.com”.

However, if I allow the user to click a link to connnect with Facebook like so:

<a href="<?php echo $loginUrl ?>" target="_top">Connect</a>

…the “Allow/Don’t Allow” dialog shows up directly from Facebook’s website, but if I click “Allow” or “Don’t Allow”, it goes directly to my canvas page (http://freelancer.xylotgames.com) instead of the embedded app page, which I’d prefer.

How can I get this to work? I see apps/games that use a pop-up instead of redirection. Is this preferred? If so, how would I do it? Why won’t the NetTuts+ tutorial work for me when it most likely works for others?