How to redirect the user to login to facebook and have them come back to the same place?

Question

I have a dashboard feature that requires facebook login. If the token is expired, I catch that.

So far so good , however, I'd like the user to go off to login and come back to the same place.

This is the code:

try {
    //make FB client
    $fb = new Facebook( [
        'app_id'                => config( 'app.FACEBOOK_APPID' ),
        'app_secret'            => config( 'app.FACEBOOK_APPSECRET' ),
            'default_graph_version' => 'v2.8',
    ] );

    //Pull events realted to this user
    $events      = $fb->get( $endpoint, $accessToken )->getDecodedBody();

//catch exception if token is expired
} catch ( FacebookSDKException $e ) {
    //redirect to facebook login
    return redirect()->action('Auth\SocialiteLoginController@redirectToProvider', ['facebook']);
}
return $events;

My issue is , the return redirect() statement, does not redirect the user to Facebook, but, it sends back the RedirectResponse object to the calling function.

Answer 1

Better use socialite drive it will handle objects.

Redirect to facebook driver

 return Socialite::driver('facebook')->redirect();

need to declare facebook redirect url in .env , facebook credentials page and local route page also.

public function handleFacebookCallback(Request $request){
     $AccessToken = Socialite::driver('facebook')->getAccessTokenResponse($request->code);
        if($token = $AccessToken['access_token']){
                $facebook =Socialite::driver('facebook')->userFromToken($token);

        if($facebook->id){ 
        //insert process and get auth userkey 
        redirect('/login page');
         }else{
        redirect('/dashboard');  //not auth user
        }
     }
 }