CakePHP facebook integration logout issue with CakePHP-Facebook-Plugin

Question

I\'m looking for a way with the CakePHP-Facebook-Plugin log users out of my app, but not log them out of their own facebook.

If I call my apps logout() function no m

Answer 1

I know this is an old question, but I figured this one out just now, trying to figure this same thing out. Basically, although in the demos with webtechnick's examples, he puts "Facebook.Connect" in the AppController, but, if you want the selective logout piece, the Best place to put it is within the actual controllers that you want to use it in or put it in AppController and pass noAuth=> true into it. Either way, whichever way you choose, you set up one controller (facebook_controller.php?) to handle the logins, and set its component with the noauth set to false (which is default). That way, you have total control over whether or not the user is logged back into the site, and you can ACTUALLY log them out (with the regular redirect($this->Auth->logout());

Let me give you an idea:

app_controller.php

class AppController extends Controller {
    var $components = array('Auth', 'Acl', 'Session');
       //or if you want access to "$this->Connect" universally:
       //   array('Auth', 'Facebook.Connect' => 
       //                      array('noauth'=>'true', 'Acl', 'Session');
}

users_controller.php:

class UsersController extends AppController{
var $helpers = array('Facebook.Facebook');
        //an example of the users controller, enabling connect, but
        // not authorizing the user (because logout() used by Auth is here)
    var $components = array('Email', 'Session', 'Facebook.Connect' => array('createUser'=>false, 'noauth'=>true));

        //login() doesnt need to be shown and can be left alone

        function logout(){
              if ($this->Connect->FB->getUser() == 0){
                    $this->redirect($this->Auth->logout());
        }else{
                //ditch FB data for safety
                $this->Connect->FB->destroysession();
                //hope its all gone with this
        session_destroy();
                //logout and redirect to the screen that you usually do.
        $this->redirect($this->Auth->logout());
        }
        }
}

your "facebook_controller.php": class FacebookaController extends AppController { ... // i dont personally like to have his piece create my user so: var $components = array('Facebook.Connect' => array('createUser'=>false)); ...

function login(){
//just need this stub function for later
$this->autoRender = false;
}

//you also need this for deauths or they will still be able to get into the site after deauth (against policy or whatever)
    function deauthorize(){
    //get user id from facebook API
    $uid = $this->Connect->FB->getUser();
    $record = $this->User->findByFacebookId($uid);
    $this->User->delete($record['id'], FALSE);  
    }
}

now your users/login.ctp file:

Facebook->login(array('registration-url'=>'http://www.yoursite.com/facebook/signup'))); ?>

And that should be pretty much it. I hope this helps someone reading this who still needs the help.