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JuSchu
JuSchu

Reputation: 1490

getLongLivedSession in Facebook PHP SDK 5.0

In Facebook PHP SDK 4.0 you can get a LongLivedSession for a user and get the access token for it. With this token you have access to the users account for more than just a few hours.

$session = new FacebookSession("[normal access token]");
$longLivedSession = $session->getLongLivedSession("[appID]", "[appSecret]");
$longLivedAccessToken = $longLivedSession->getToken();

Facebook\FacebookSession was removed after 4.0 and I need features from the class Facebook\Facebook which was added in 5.0. Right now I can't find a way to get a longLivedAccesToken in 5.0. Is this because I'm looking for something which doesn't exist or is there a way to do this in 5.0?

As a workaround I would use one controller with 4.0 and one with 5.0 in my app, but it would be really nice if I could avoid that, because that would be really messy.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 353

Answers (1)

C3roe
C3roe

Reputation: 96325

That has been moved to the Facebook\Authentication\OAuth2Client class now.

If you look at the source code of that class, beginning with line #169 you’ll find:

169    /**
170      * Exchanges a short-lived access token with a long-lived access token.
171      *
172      * @param AccessToken|string $accessToken
173      *
174      * @return AccessToken
175      *
176      * @throws FacebookSDKException
177      */
178     public function getLongLivedAccessToken($accessToken)
179     {

(The documentation does not seem to be fully up to date right now, so in situations like this it is always recommendable that you have a little look around in the source code yourself to see what methods are available and what parameters they take.)

Upvotes: 2

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