$facebook.getUser(); returning all the time 0 - php

I'm posting here due to a problem with php and the sdk of facebook.
For a reason I don't really know, when I try to get the userID of the logged account, continuously I received the same value, 0, even if i'm logged.
I've been trying to debug some variables, $facebook, checking sessions, etc. but with unsuccessfully results, then i'm gonna step by detailing all what i'm doing and the debug log i'm doing:
I'm using hostinger servers, that hosts my website. Due to i've found many problems, i've created a test webpage in which i have 5 files:
index.php
callback.php
facebook.php (comes from facebook)
base_facebook.php
certificate
The code i have on index.php is what i've pasted here: [index.php]: http://pastebin.com/Mfdkxz8H This is only the first part of the code which tries to get the autentification.
The code i have on callback.php is what i've pasted here: [callback.php]: http://pastebin.com/Uw0A3NM8. There i try to get the userID.
I've read some post and for some reasons there were so many cases in which the token
wasn't received in the second file/call.
I don't really know what the problem is and would be happy to find a solution.
P.D It doesn't matter the appId and secret because facebook and webpage were created for a test.

Hard to tell what is going up from your code example (By the way, you should NEVER post your appId and secret in public like that otherwise someone will be able to compromise your application). A gave your code a quick glance and it "looks" fine but here are a couple of pointers:
But here are a couple of pointers.
1) Make sure you have the latest version of the Facebook SDK (assuming you do)
2) For SANITY sake, i would keep your Facebook API files in its their folder ('sdk')
3) DOUBLE CHECK your app settings to make sure the appID and secret are correct (I have made this mistake many times), also make sure that your at is NOT in sandbox mode
4) Then try something like this
include_once("sdk/facebook.php");
//Call Facebook API
$facebook = new Facebook(array(
'appId' => XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX,
'secret' => XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX,
'cookie' => true, // enable optional cookie support
));
$params = array(
'scope' => 'email',
'redirect_uri' => 'http://devstarlight.esy.es/facebook/callback.php'
);
$login_url = $facebook->getLoginUrl($params);

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first facebook asks me to click okay to authorize the app then chrome gives me this error. and the I have this endless redirect problem. I have read many cases about this but none clear and simple enough to get me over this obstacle.
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what I know.
facebook.php is working
the secret and appid are being passed correctly by the script.
I must have configured my app settings on the facebook development site almost correctly
how do I know this?
because when I change those variables in my script or adjust the settings
on facebook development server, I dont even get this far, I dont get asked to click ok or see my facebook profile in chrome.
what I dont know.
How to fix this redirect problem. or complete the authentication process. echo $user always returns 0.
my code looks like this:
require 'src/facebook.php';
$app_id = "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";
$app_secret = "xxxxxxxxxxx";
$facebook = new Facebook(array(
'appId' => $app_id,
'secret' => $app_secret,
'cookie' => true
));
$user = $facebook->getUser();
echo $user;
if(($facebook->getUser())==0)
{
header("Location:{$facebook->getLoginUrl(array('req_perms' =>
'user_status,publish_stream,user_photos,offline_access,manage_pages'))}");
exit;
}
thanks for any help
changing the setting to no when asked" is this a desktop app? " in the advanced section of app configuration on developers.facebook.com seem to resolve this issue.

After migrating, Facebook signed_request not being sent back

I've recently migrated our site to Amazon EC2 from another host. On the old server, our Facebook login worked fine, but it's failing on EC2. I've done some digging, and it looks like it's failing because no value is being passed back from Facebook for the signed_request variable. I've done print_r($_REQUEST) on my return page, and the only things Facebook is passing back is code and state, in the URL itself. Nothing in POST.
I did notice that the site URL defined in my app didn't have a slash at the end, which seems to be problematic based on some comments in this forum, but that didn't help. Other answers were from a couple of years ago, and seemed to be obsolete since I couldn't find what they were referring to.
I also tried adding my EC2 IP to my app's whitelist, and that didn't help either.
Here's my current code:
if(!session_start())session_start();
require_once("facebook.php");
require_once("config.php");
$facebook = new Facebook(array(
'appId' => constant("FB_CONSUMER_KEY"),
'secret' => constant("FB_CONSUMER_SECRET"),
'cookie' => false
));
$FbId = intval($facebook->getUser());
if($FbId != 0) {
...
} else {
// log in to FB
$login_url = $facebook->getLoginUrl(array(
'scope' => 'email,user_likes,publish_stream',
'next' => '<return_page>',
'cancel_url' => '<cancel_page>'
));
exit;
}
$FbId keeps coming back with a 0 value, even after logging into Facebook. Some digging showed that this is because the user is never being set in the getUserFromAvailableData function because $_REQUEST['signed_request'] doesn't have a value.
I've tried this both already logged into Facebook and not logged in, but $_REQUEST['signed_request'] isn't returned in either case.
I've seen some posts on here that indicate that old Facebook apps seem to have some kind of grandfathering where they continue to work until they get migrated, or another new app just like it gets created. Could that be the case here?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,

PHP-SDK too many redirects

I'm using the PHP-SDK for Facebook and got the example to work on my localhost. However, when building a script on a server the script stays quite busy with redirecting from my script to facebook and back. (Error: Fout 310 (net::ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS):)
It seems that many more people have got this issue (here, here, here, here). Though, I can't find a clear answer what goes wrong.
Redirect to facebook (response 302):
https://www.facebook.com/dialog/oauth?client_id=166958180001271&redirect_uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdomain.com%2Fscripts%2FGateway.php%3Faction%3DAllowFacebookAccessAction%26app%3D14&state=0dbc178a375595da4751265a7147c01e#_=_
Redirect to mydomain (response 302):
http://domain.com/scripts/Gateway.php?action=AllowFacebookAccessAction&app=14&state=0dbc178a375595da4751265a7147c01e&code=AQD-dTeyns0OWpGb_PzfHxUy2iRmpc1XgP6Q24DDRX8MiRTE10lV-b-aSNIlOLVHk576vRs3H8Pf9n0kGwU827MrkzUCUoQGFGEQBkkOJnCy9zb6hZs7TVBsKL2iSuZIhDjLsCOPeKy3zfb37Q6LGhtMICCdB_IQAvU0uRvAkSAX8tdVJ65PEv8imx-2yvLaMoGJleZwKogh7m03vlhV8hJk#_=_
Part of the code that creates this issue
...
$facebook = new FacebookApi(array(
'appId' => $app->getProperty('apiKey'),
'secret' => $app->getProperty('secretKey'),
));
$user = $facebook->getUser();
if (!$user) {
header('location: ' . $facebook->getLoginUrl());
exit;
}
...
UPDATE:
I ruled out that its a server setting. I was able to run the original example script on that server.
Recheck your app secret in your app settings https://developers.facebook.com/apps otherwise dump the session
<?php print_r($_SESSION); ?>
And lint the token returned https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug
Pretty sure either the token is mangled or the secret.
If not, it's in code you haven't shown.

getting getSignedRequest() using static HTML app?

I have an app called static HTML (https://apps.facebook.com/static_html_plus/?ref=ts) installed on a page of mine..
I want to be able to access getSignedRequest() to pass data through the URL in facebook using app_data.. (I want to be able to pass an item id to activate a JS item in the iframe.. in essence allowing me to link to an expanded JS feature in the page)
The issue is that i am recieving NULL from getSignedRequest(); I am not sure if the app I am using (mentioned above : static HTML) is stopping the information from getting passed through to my iframe.
If you are unfamiliar with this app, it allows you to put HTML/CSS/JS to embed an iframe.
On the hunch that it is the app that is stopping the propagation of the facebook data to my iframe, I have attempted to follow SEVERAL tutorials, both video and written that try to create a facebook iframe by creating a custom app.. none have worked, and i have not been successful in even adding a BASIC TAB to any of my pages..
I am about to give up on this facebook thing as every tutorial I have found has a completely different looking interface or set of instructions then what is ACTUALLY available on the facebook developers page..
Does anyone have a CLEAR UP-TO-DATE, non-facebook written walk-through, or atleast know if my use of the static HTML app is what is causing me to recieve null in my getSignedRequest()?
Here is my php code in the iframe i embed in the static HTML app, incase you think the error is in there somewhere.
require 'facebook.php';
//facebook signed app_data
$app_id = "xxxxxx";
$app_secret = "xxxxxxxxxxx";
$facebook = new Facebook(array(
'appId' => $app_id,
'secret' => $app_secret,
'cookie' => true
));
// Get contents of signed request
$signed_request = $facebook->getSignedRequest();
Any help would be nice. I have wasted 2 nights on this crap.
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Facebook GRAPH API, php SDK problem

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{
"error": {
"type": "OAuthException",
"message": "An active access token must be used to query information about the current user."
}
}
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http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/518/
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$fb = new Facebook(array(
'appId' => $appId,
'secret' => $secret,
'cookie' => $cookie
));
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