Laravel Socialite with Facebook not logging in - facebook

Question

I'm following the documentation exactly.
https://github.com/laravel/socialite and https://laravel.com/docs/5.1/authentication#social-authentication
I've created my app on Facebook and got everything working. When I click my log in with Facebook button, it authorizes the app and takes me back to my site.
However, it doesn't show me as logged in. If I dd() instead of the redirect below, I get all of the data from my Facebook account. But the pages that are only visible to logged in users, aren't visible.
Here is my controller:
public function redirectToProvider()
{
return Socialite::driver('facebook')->redirect();
}
public function handleProviderCallback()
{
$user = Socialite::driver('facebook')->user();
return redirect('my-profile')
->with('message', 'You have signed in with Facebook.');
}
Here are my routes:
Route::get('login/facebook', 'Auth\AuthController#redirectToProvider');
Route::get('login/facebook/callback', 'Auth\AuthController#handleProviderCallback');
Socialite is installed properly in composer.json. The classes are in config/app.php and the IDs for my FB app are in config/services.php.
Any ideas as to why it's not working?

Answer 1

In the handleProviderCallback method you need to create and authenticate the user returned by the driver.
Create the user if doesn't exist:
$userModel = User::firstOrNew(['email' => $user->getEmail()]);
if (!$userModel->id) {
$userModel->fill([.....]);
$userModel->save();
}
Then authenticate the user:
Auth::login($userModel);
Your method will look like this:
public function handleProviderCallback() {
$user = Socialite::driver('facebook')->user();
$userModel = User::firstOrNew(['email' => $user->getEmail()]);
if (!$userModel->id) {
$userModel->fill([.....]);//Fill the user model with your data
$userModel->save();
}
Auth::login($userModel);
return redirect('my-profile')
->with('message', 'You have signed in with Facebook.');
}