laravel4 hybridauth facebook Authentication failed! Facebook returned an invalid user id

Question

OK, I\'m trying to use Hybridauth with laravel 4. However I seem to be getting the very common when trying to log in with facebook:

Authentication fai

Answer 1

Had this error in the past. Solved by modyfying Hybridauth's code myself.

1. In thirdparty/Facebook/base_facebook.php make sure $CURL_OPTS array uses: CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => false
2. In my case I was closing session files for performance improvements so I added: session_start() inside Storage.php wherever HA::STORE session var is being updated/unset.

Let me know if it helps.