Facebook Connect for simple authentication?
- by Starnzy
Hi
I have an ASP.net website which I want to introduce 'Facebook Connect' functionality into, purely for account login/creation purposes. I want a user to be able to click the 'Login using Facebook' type button, and to then log that user into my website based on a userid lookup from the Facebook response.
I have a couple of questions surrounding this:
Presumeably I can do all of this using the Facebook API - without the need for an actual pretty public facing 'application' on Facebook? I simply want to utilise the Facebook API for authenticating an account. I'm not interested in creating some app for doing something 'within' facebook itself.
I have located some code snippets online and tried using the Facebook Developer Toolkit, calling the getInfo method, and whilst it does come back to my website with a uid, none of the other user information is present within the response, like Email, Name etc. The uid is the only populated field in the response.
Here is the code I use:
if (ConnectAuthentication.isConnected())
{
API api = new API();
api.ApplicationKey = ConnectAuthentication.ApiKey;
api.SessionKey = ConnectAuthentication.SessionKey;
api.Secret = ConnectAuthentication.SecretKey;
api.uid = ConnectAuthentication.UserID;
//Display user data captured from the Facebook API.
facebook.Schema.user facebookUser = null;
try
{
facebookUser = api.users.getInfo();
User user = new User();
user.FacebookUser = facebookUser;
user.IsFacebookUser = true;
return user;
}
catch { return null; }
}
else
{
return null;
}
Can anyone please help with either/both of these queries?
Thanks in advance...
