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Jean Ray Charlier
Jean Ray Charlier

Reputation: 41

Getting and storing access tokens using base_facebook.php and facebook.php?

Using the above libraries, I can get the details of a user, his authorisation, his friends, but only once: I need to store the access_token and key in database, so the user can access his friends walls or other public details. Can anyone help? (I have used OAuth for Twitter and Tumblr, but I can't get it for FB).

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1249

Answers (2)

bmatusiak
bmatusiak

Reputation: 151

if you need a generic access_token without a login... you can use $appID ."|". $secKey this is called a APP access token, so it would be logged in as the "Application" not a user

!!! make sure you use this on https://graph.facebook.com/ !!!

hints the "https://" for secure SSL connection but the API already determines this.

Upvotes: 0

patchrail
patchrail

Reputation: 2007

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/

Be careful with saving the token. When not requesting all-time permission, it expires in a certain time (what might be your problem)

When using a canvas app (the ones integrated in apps.facebook.com) requesting another token is quite simple. Facebook posts a signed_request parameter to your app whenever a user accesses it (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/signed_request/).

Decode it, pass it to the Graph API, profit.

Upvotes: 1

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