Retrieving user information from facebook - facebook

Question

I am doing a registration on my website via facebook.
When the user logs in via facebook the $user array returned is not exactly what i want.
I have gone through the user parameters that are accessible via facebook, i have tried implementing them also but it is not working.
This is a sample of what i have
require_once "Database_Connect.php";
if (!isset($_POST['choosepassword']))
{
# We require the library
$user=array();
require("facebook.php");
# my error tracker
$error=0;
# Creating the facebook object
$facebook = new Facebook(array(
'appId' => 'xxx',
'secret' => 'xxx',
'cookie' => true
));
# Let's see if we have an active session
$session = $facebook->getSession();
if(!empty($session)) {
# Active session, let's try getting the user id (getUser()) and user info (api->('/me'))
try{
$uid = $facebook->getUser();
$user = $facebook->api('/me');
} catch (Exception $e){}
if(!empty($user)){
# User info ok? Let's print it (Here we will be adding the login and registering routines)
print_r($user);
***At this point what is retrieved is not exactly what i want*****
$ue=$user['email'];$ui=$user['id'];
$query = mysql_query("select * from members where email = '$ue' or (oauth_provider = 'facebook' AND oauth_uid = '$ui')", $link);
$result = mysql_fetch_array($query);
# If not, let's add it to the database
if(!empty($result)){
$error = 2; //record already in database
require_once "facebook_error.php";
die();
}
} else {
# For testing purposes, if there was an error, let's kill the script
$error = 1; //we were unable to retrieve info frm facebook
require_once "facebook_error.php";
die();
}
} else {
# There's no active session, let's generate one
$login_url = $facebook->getLoginUrl();
*** I tried specifying what i want returned here, but it doesnt seem to work*****
$url = $facebook->getLoginUrl(array(
'req_perms' => 'uid, first_name, last_name, name, email, current_location, user_website, user_likes, user_interests, user_birthday, pic_big',
'next' => 'http://www.zzzzzzz.com/facebook_register.php',
'cancel_url' => 'http://www.zzzzzzz.com'
));
header("Location: ".$login_url);
}
What am i not doing right?
Thank You
Update
I am using FQL to select user info from facebook now,
$fql = "select uid, first_name, last_name, name, sex, email, current_location, website, interests, birthday, pic_big from user where uid=me()";
$param = array('method' => 'fql.query', 'query' => $fql, 'callback' => '');
$user = $facebook->api($param);
It retrieves all the data except the birthday and the email
How can i select the email and birthday?
Thanks

Answer 1

Your application needs the user_birthday and email permissions for this, else it will not return that information. You only need to supply parameters that need a permission, not what fields you want in the req_perms parameter, so it should look like this:
$url = $facebook->getLoginUrl(array(
'req_perms' => 'email, user_birthday',
'next' => 'http://www.zzzzzzz.com/facebook_register.php',
'cancel_url' => 'http://www.zzzzzzz.com'
));