How to get user's "verified" status with PHP - facebook

Question

I have a Facebook Connect login at my website and I use it to get some data about my users. One thing I want to know is whether the user has been verified by Facebook. I see this in the documentation as simply the "verified" value. I've ask for some basic access params when the user authorizes my app so I think I should be able to access it. But when I try to return the value I just get a null.
My code is something like this:
if ($facebook->getSession()) {
$uid = $facebook->getUser();
$fbme = $facebook->api('/me');
} else {
$params = array(
'fbconnect'=>0,
'canvas'=>1,
'req_perms'=>'email,user_birthday,user_location,user_about_me'
);
$birthday=$fbme['birthday'];
echo "Birthday=$birthday"; //This works
$verified=$fbme['verified'];
echo "Verified=$verified"; //This just shows nothing.
Okay, vardump gives me the following. I see it in there. I guess I have to figure out how to extract it now. (Don't worry, this is a test user and I've changed some of the data so I'm not exposing any personal info here)
User #1 (Has a verified value returned):
{ ["id"]=> string(10) "1503999261" ["name"]=> string(12) "Monique Bush"
["first_name"]=> string(7) "Shane" ["last_name"]=> string(4) "Bush" ["link"]=> string(49)
"http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1503999221" ["birthday"]=> string(10) "02/17/1974"
["hometown"]=> array(2) { ["id"]=> string(0) "" ["name"]=> NULL } ["location"]=> array(2)
{ ["id"]=> string(0) "" ["name"]=> NULL } ["bio"]=> string(24) "I just like to have fun!"
["gender"]=> string(6) "female" ["email"]=> string(22) "myemail#gmail.com"
["timezone"]=> int(-5) ["locale"]=> string(5) "en_US" ["verified"]=> bool(true)
["updated_time"]=> string(24) "2011-04-17T14:24:16+0000" } fbid=1503999221
User #2: (Nothing returned at all. Not even a false)
{ ["id"]=> string(15) "100003353106485" ["name"]=> string(14) "Randy Mason"
["first_name"]=> string(5) "Randy" ["last_name"]=> string(8) "Mason" ["link"]=>
string(54) "http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003353106485" ["birthday"]=>
string(10) "02/05/1985" ["work"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(1) { ["employer"]=> array(2)
{ ["id"]=> string(15) "107572525938726" ["name"]=> string(3) "IBM" } } }
["education"]=> array(2) { [0]=> array(3) { ["school"]=> array(2) { ["id"]=> string(15)
"107705972591905" ["name"]=> string(55) "Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and
Technology" } ["year"]=> array(2) { ["id"]=> string(15) "194603703904595" ["name"]=>
string(4) "2003" } ["type"]=> string(11) "High School" } [1]=> array(3) { ["school"]=>
array(2) { ["id"]=> string(11) "56827075005" ["name"]=> string(31) "The College of
William and Mary" } ["year"]=> array(2) { ["id"]=> string(15) "142963519060927"
["name"]=> string(4) "2010" } ["type"]=> string(7) "College" } } ["gender"]=> string(4)
"male" ["email"]=> string(22) "rsmithson505#gmail.com" ["timezone"]=> int(-7)
["locale"]=> string(5) "en_US" ["updated_time"]=> string(24) "2011-12-31T22:29:34+0000" }
So I can work with this. However, I'm wondering why I don't get even a false in the second scenario.

Answer 1

As long as verified will be always true when account is really verified - you can just go with
$verified = !empty($fbme['verified']);