Facebook require_login not working

Question

hi guys, I am having some trouble with my little facebook application, I keep getting this friggin error, "Fatal error: Call to undefined method Facebook::require_login()", now the funny bit is that my exact same code is working for other people, but not for me, here is the code.

<?php
require_once( "facebook-php-sdk/src/facebook.php" );
$api_key = "my_api_key";
$secret = "my_secret_key";

$facebook = new Facebook( $api_key, $secret );
$user_id = $facebook->require_login();

echo "Hello World";
echo "Current logged in as <fb:name uid=\"$user_id\" />";
?>

As you can see it is a simple hello USER application, but for some reason this REFUSES to work for me, so if anyone can help out that would be great, thanx in advance!

Answer 1

Try adding the require_frame() method there:

require_once( "facebook-php-sdk/src/facebook.php" );
$api_key = "my_api_key";
$secret = "my_secret_key";

$facebook = new Facebook( $api_key, $secret );
$facebook->require_frame();
$user_id = $facebook->require_login();

echo "Hello World";
echo "Current logged in as <fb:name uid=\"$user_id\" />";

It seems to be working fine for me.

Make sure that you are using the latest php client for facebook, also try searching for require_login method in facebook.php class that you are including.

Answer 2

Are you using the newest version of the PHP sdk?

Facebook::require_login() is a method from the old SDK.

The new SDK (published in conjunction with the Graph API) is not backwards compatible.

The notion of requiring a login doesn't even exist anymore - you just obtain the user's ID as such.

$user_id = $facebook->getUser();

Answer 3

You can see a very simple introduction on the new facebook SDK here: http://www.phpfour.com/blog/2010/05/quick-start-on-new-facebook-php-sdk-iframe-based/