Question

I’m trying to log out of a website i’ve created with Facebook integrated.
Logging in works fine, but when I want to log out Firebug consistently gives me this error:

FB.logout() called without an access token.

I’m using the Facebook JavaScript SDK, and the code I’ve got to logout looks like this:

$(document).ready($(function () {
    $("#fblogout").click(facebooklogout);
}));

function facebooklogout() {
    FB.logout(function (response) {
    }
)};

This is the logout code specified at the Facebook Developers Documentation just with a button being assigned the method on document.ready

Before this code I have the FB.init() method, that all runs fine.

If anyone’s got a solution as to why FB.logout doesn’t have an access token, it’d be appreciated.

Answer 1

To logout from the application which uses facebook graph API, use this JavaScript on the logout page just after the <form> tag:

window.onload=function()
{
    // initialize the library with your Facebook API key
    FB.init({ apiKey: 'b65c1efa72f570xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' });

    //Fetch the status so that we can log out.
    //You must have the login status before you can logout,
    //and if you authenticated via oAuth (server side), this is necessary.
    //If you logged in via the JavaScript SDK, you can simply call FB.logout()
    //once the login status is fetched, call handleSessionResponse
    FB.getLoginStatus(handleSessionResponse);
}

//handle a session response from any of the auth related calls
function handleSessionResponse(response) {
    //if we dont have a session (which means the user has been logged out, redirect the user)
    if (!response.session) {
        window.location = "/mysite/Login.aspx";
        return;
    }

    //if we do have a non-null response.session, call FB.logout(),
    //the JS method will log the user out of Facebook and remove any authorization cookies
    FB.logout(handleSessionResponse);
}

The code works and is live on my site.