Facebook Sdk For Yii2

Yii 2.0 General Discussions
1

Hello everyone,

I’m new here. I want to add Facebook sdk in yii2, normally i did in php was just include facebook.php on top of php file and create $facebook object. Can anyone please help me with that?

2

You can do it the same way.

3

But where can I include it to, to be able to call the $facebook object in the entire app?

4

The best way is to wrap it into an object or include it when needed.

5

You can call the Facebook SDK class with proper namespaces (copy all the SDK files to a directory) and try.

Alternatively, a simpler direct approach can be to use my yii2-social module. With this extension, you can refer the FB SDK API simply like this:




// fetch the facebook sdk api

$facebook = Yii::$app->getModule('social')->getFbApi();


// Get User ID

$user = $facebook->getUser();

You need to setup the module like this (refer the docs for more details). You can also check the source code to understand more details.




'modules' => [

    'social' => [

        // the module class

        'class' => 'kartik\social\Module',


       // the global settings for the facebook plugins widget

        'facebook' => [

            'appId' => 'FACEBOOK_APP_ID',

            'secret' => 'FACEBOOK_APP_SECRET',

        ],

    ]

]

There are other built in social plugins available as Yii widgets if you want to have a look.

6

Kartik, I gave your social module a try and was up and running in less than 5 minutes. This is a very easy to use and useful module. Nice documentation. It makes Yii 2.0 a lot of fun to work with…

7

@Kartik, Can I use yii2-social module with multiple apps in facebook? I would like manage multiple apps in my yii system.

Thanks!

8

You can use yii2-social module with multiple Facebook apps this way:




$social = Yii::$app->getModule('social');

$social->facebook = [

    'appId' => 'YOUR_APP_ID',

    'secret' => 'YOUR_SECRET',

    // any other custom settings

];

// fetch the facebook sdk api

$facebook = $social->getFbApi();
9

Thanks @Kartik, this code is what I was looking for.