neha2601/facebook-cake-component

Facebook plugin for CakePHP

Facebook Api plugin for CakePHP 3

, _(*1)

This plugin provides basic support for use FACEBOOK API services in your CakePHP 3 application., _(*2)

Requirements

This plugin has the following requirements:, _(*3)

• CakePHP 3.0.0 or greater.
• Facebook PHP_SDK 5.

Installation

You can install this plugin into your CakePHP application using composer., _(*4)

The recommended way to install composer packages is:, _(*5)

composer require facebook/graph-sdk

Configuration

To use a Facebook config file, you should have a global.php file in your config folder. The default configurations are as below and defined in config/api.php., _(*6)

<?php

return [
    'Facebook' => [
        'AppId' => '1336289226489835',
        'AppSecret' => 'b2c01b4544a3e388ce84c41456dccaf3',
        'DefaultGraphVersion' => 'v2.2',
    ],
];

and load below file in your bootstrap.php., _(*7)

Configure::load('global', 'default');

In your controller,load facebook component into your overridden initialize method like this., _(*8)

   public function initialize()
    {
        parent::initialize();
        $this->loadComponent('Facebook');
    }

Usage

@link https://developers.facebook.com/docs/php/howto/example_facebook_login. You just need to load facebook component in controller. For example,, _(*9)

namespace App\Controller;

use Facebook\Facebook;

/**
 * Facebook login.
 */
class SocialDetailsController extends ApiController
{

    /**
     * Facebook login.
     */
    public function login()
    {
        $permissions = ['email']; // Optional permissions
        $callbackUrl = 'http://' . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . 'facebook-callback'; // Redirect URL
        $loginUrl = $this->Facebook->facebookLogin($permissions, $callbackUrl);
        $this->set('loginUrl', $loginUrl);
    }

     /**
     * facebook callback method.
     */
    public function facebookCallback()
    {
        $this->autoRender = false;
        $facebook = $this->Facebook->getAccessToken();
        return true; //Return in your page
    }
}

You can define your logic in your action function as per your need. For above example, You can redirect them to a your page., _(*10)

The URL for above example will be http://yourdomain.com/SocialDetails/login. You can customize it by setting the routes in APP/config/routes.php., _(*11)

Simple :), _(*12)