Using Laravel Socialite to login to facebook

Question

I am new to Laravel however and I am following the tutorial on http://www.codeanchor.net/blog/complete-laravel-socialite-tutorial/, to login a user through Facebook into my

Answer 1

Update 2018 - laravel 5.6 - socialite 3.0

It's little bit tricky for something that looks/should be easy, but anyway this is how i make things works for me.

Server side

you can find those instructions and more details in socialite docs

Installation

composer require laravel/socialite

Configuration

in config/services.php add

'facebook' => [

    'client_id'     => env('FACEBOOK_CLIENT_ID'),
    'client_secret' => env('FACEBOOK_CLIENT_SECRET'),
    'redirect'      => env('FACEBOOK_CALLBACK_URL'),
],

in .env file add

FACEBOOK_CLIENT_ID=paste_client_id_here
FACEBOOK_CLIENT_SECRET=paste_client_secret_here
FACEBOOK_CALLBACK_URL=https://www.example.com/auth/facebook/callback

in routes/web.php add

Route::get('auth/facebook/', 'Auth\FacebookController@redirect')->name('auth.facebook');

Route::get('auth/facebook/callback', 'Auth\FacebookController@callback')->name('auth.facebook.callback');

in App\Http\Controllers\Auth add new controller FacebookController.php

redirect();
    }


    /**
     * Create a new controller instance.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function callback(Request $request)
    {
        try {

            $facebookAccount = Socialite::driver('facebook')->user();

            // your logic here...

            return redirect()->route('your.route.name');


        } catch (Exception $e) {


            return redirect()->route('auth.facebook');
        }
    }
}

Facebook side

go to https://developers.facebook.com/apps and create new app (if you don't have one already)

and make sur your app settings are like below in those screen shots:

Important note

If you are developing in your local machine, you have to use tools like ngrok that provide a secure link to your localhost.

In the facebook login settings change https://www.example.com with the url provided by ngrok something like https://8b0215bc.ngrok.io.

It is the only way that worked for me while developing in my local machine.