Do you know how I can authenticate an app for Facebook in PHP?

Question

I'm trying to to get tokens so something like that so that an app will be able to search a user in Facebook.

I've tried http://github.com/facebook/php-sdk but it is either for authenticating a user or it is not working.

For example this one is for authenticating a user to the app http://github.com/facebook/php-sdk/blob/master/examples/example.php but I want to authenticate my app to facebook.

This one give error http://github.com/facebook/php-sdk/blob/master/tests/tests.php Fatal error: Class 'PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase' not found in...

And I do not know my ap's tokens. Also I do not know whether those tokes are used for once or they can be used multiple times.

Answer 1

You can only access the email addresses (or proxy email addresses) of the users that gave your app that permission. There is no way to write a facebook application that accesses email addresses (or most any data) of arbitrary users.

Answer 2

I've been trying to do this. All I want to do is search for a page on say a musician then get the ID and then the link (URL) of their facebook fan page and return that... I got search working, but without a session it seems difficult to get info. I'm trying to figure out the arguments to makeRequest() to get client credentials... Hence ending up here in Google.