Hello I am trying to use the facebook api to verify a access token and get the user data like email etc..
However when I test it I get this Parse error: syntax error, unexpected 'use' (T_USE)
.
Here is the code I am using currently.
require_once( getcwd().'/Facebook/FacebookSession.php' );
require_once( getcwd().'/Facebook/FacebookRedirectLoginHelper.php' );
require_once( getcwd().'/Facebook/FacebookRequest.php' );
require_once( getcwd().'/Facebook/FacebookResponse.php' );
require_once( getcwd().'/Facebook/FacebookSDKException.php' );
require_once( getcwd().'/Facebook/FacebookRequestException.php' );
require_once( getcwd().'/Facebook/FacebookAuthorizationException.php' );
require_once( getcwd().'/Facebook/GraphObject.php' );
use Facebook\FacebookSession;
use Facebook\FacebookRedirectLoginHelper;
use Facebook\FacebookRequest;
use Facebook\FacebookResponse;
use Facebook\FacebookSDKException;
use Facebook\FacebookRequestException;
use Facebook\FacebookAuthorizationException;
use Facebook\GraphObject;
use Facebook\GraphUser;
FacebookSession::setDefaultApplication('My App ID', 'My Secret');
// Use one of the helper classes to get a FacebookSession object.
// FacebookRedirectLoginHelper
// FacebookCanvasLoginHelper
// FacebookJavaScriptLoginHelper
// or create a FacebookSession with a valid access token:
$session = new FacebookSession('My Access Token');
try {
$me = (new FacebookRequest(
$session, 'GET', '/me'
))->execute()->getGraphObject(GraphUser::className());
echo $me->getName();
} catch (FacebookRequestException $e) {
// The Graph API returned an error
} catch (\Exception $e) {
// Some other error occurred
}
Any Ideas on how to fix this error? I never used "use" before and I have read the php documentation for it but i still can't figure it out.
Well thanks everybody I finally got it working, turns out you have to make sure that the code below is not within a function like ceejayoz said. I just moved it outside my code igniter model class and now it works, thanks.
//We need to load the Facebook api library
require_once( getcwd().'/facebook-php-sdk-v4-4.0-dev/autoload.php' );
require_once( getcwd().'/facebook-php-sdk-v4-4.0-dev/src/Facebook/FacebookSession.php' );
require_once( getcwd().'/facebook-php-sdk-v4-4.0-dev/src/Facebook/FacebookRedirectLoginHelper.php' );
require_once( getcwd().'/facebook-php-sdk-v4-4.0-dev/src/Facebook/FacebookRequest.php' );
require_once( getcwd().'/facebook-php-sdk-v4-4.0-dev/src/Facebook/FacebookResponse.php' );
require_once( getcwd().'/Facebook/FacebookSDKException.php' );
require_once( getcwd().'/Facebook/FacebookRequestException.php' );
require_once( getcwd().'/Facebook/FacebookAuthorizationException.php' );
require_once( getcwd().'/Facebook/GraphObject.php' );
//Setup the facebook api for Facebook Validate
use Facebook\FacebookSession;
use Facebook\FacebookRedirectLoginHelper;
use Facebook\FacebookRequest;
use Facebook\FacebookResponse;
use Facebook\FacebookSDKException;
use Facebook\FacebookRequestException;
use Facebook\FacebookAuthorizationException;
use Facebook\GraphObject;
use Facebook\GraphUser;
These lines are invalid
use Facebook\FacebookSession';
use Facebook\FacebookRedirectLoginHelper';
Correct is:
use Facebook\FacebookSession;
use Facebook\FacebookRedirectLoginHelper;
The solution is simple. Put your use
statements outside { }
.
For example, the following is incorrect:
<?php
if($_GET["page"]=="index.php"){
use Facebook\FacebookSession;
}
?>
The following is correct:
<?php
use Facebook\FacebookSession;
if($_GET["page"]=="index.php"){
...
}
?>