Built to work with the AuthComponent using the recommended approach for building custom authentication handlers.
The purpose of the Facebook Authentication Handler is to provide Facebook Authentication for your CakePHP 2.0 or later based application. The handler has been built following Cake’s recommended approach for building custom authentication objects for use with the built in AuthComponent.
The handler itself is part a FacebookAuth plugin, though this is essentially to make the handler easily redistributable with example configuration settings and an example controller detailing a typical use case scenario.
It should be noted that though this handler stores the access token returned by Facebook, it does not currently provide a means to makes calls to the Graph API. It’s function is to provide authentication. Of course, you could use the access token and your preferred method to communicate with Facebook.
The first version is over on GitHub! Get it here.
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