Question

I’m new to Facebook API and I’m currently trying to get the user friend list in a variable.

This is the code, I have within my controller:

$accept = $this->isAcceptApp($this->app_secret);

$this->view->accept = $accept;

  $facebook = new Facebook(array(
      'appId'  => $this->app_id,
      'secret' => $this->app_secret,
      'cookie' => true,
    ));

  $session = $facebook->getSession();

    if ($session) {

          $friends = $facebook->api('/me/friends');

I have this on the top of my Controller:

require_once("facebook.php");

Answer 1

Well one thing I can see is a mistake right away. Quite a while ago the SDK was altered and the login process slightly changed…

This is what it should look like now –

$facebook = new Facebook($fbConfig);
$user = $facebook->getUser();  // <-- the change!!
if ($user) {
  // proceed knowing you have a logged in user who's authenticated
} else {
  // proceed knowing you require user login and/or authentication
}

Notice that getSession() is not used. Use the getUser() function instead.

You can get your hands on an updated version of the SDK from github (currently v.3.2.2).