Facebook Session is not persisting from page - to - page - facebook

Question

I am having a rough time with getting the facebook javascript SDK workflow to work. The requirement was to offer a "login" link, not a facebook icon. To do this, I improvised a bit. So far it works really well but the session is not persisting from page to page. I am figuring that the session gets set after the login method but it doesn't look like that. Here is login / logout which works fine:
function login() {
FB.login(function(response) {
if (response.session) {
FB.api('/me', function(response) {
document.getElementById('socialauth').innerHTML = "<span>Welcome, " + response.name + " </span>"
+ "(logout)";
});
} else {
}
}, { perms: 'email,publish_stream' });
return false;
}
function logout() {
FB.logout(function(response) {
document.getElementById('socialauth').innerHTML = "login";
});
}
And here is what I am testing with which doesn't fire:
$(document).ready(function() {
FB.getLoginStatus(function(response) {
if (response.status == "connected") {
// logged in and connected user, someone you know
alert("ok - 5 seconds has passed");
} else {
// no user session available, someone you dont know
alert("not ok");
}
});
});
I am also trying "javascript:document.cooike" in my URL box and see not evidence of the FB session.
Kindly advise?

Answer 1

You need to make sure your loading the Facebook SDK on each page as well. For a simple solution that uses jQuery check out https://github.com/xocialhost/jquery.xocialCore.js
The first two functions in the plugin deal with initializing FB and authentication.
Using the provided function you'd do something like this:
$(document).ready(function() {
$.xcInitFacebook = function({appId:'yourappid',callback:function() {
FB.getLoginStatus(function(response) {
if (response.status === 'connected') { alert('logged in'); }
else { alert('not logged in'); }
} });
});