Catalyst::Authentication::Credential::Facebook - Facebook authentication for Catalyst

In MyApp.pm

 use Catalyst qw/
    Authentication
    Session
    Session::Store::FastMmap
    Session::State::Cookie
	Facebook
 /;

 MyApp->config(
     "Plugin::Authentication" => {
         default_realm => "facebook",
         realms => {
             'facebook' => {
                 credential => {
                     class => "Facebook",
                 },
             },
         },
     },
 );

And then in your Controller:

 sub login : Local {
    my ($self, $c) = @_;

	if (my $user = $c->authenticate(undef,'facebook')) {
		# user is logged in - redirect or do something
	}
	else {
		# user has no account in your system
		# detect Facebook credentials and create an account
		# or do comething else
	} 
 }

This module handles Facebook Platform authentication in a Catalyst application.

As per guidelines of Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication, there are two mandatory methods, new and authenticate.

Will not be called by you directly, but will use the configuration you provide (see above). WWW::Facebook::API is required, but we also suggest you install Catalyst::Plugin::Facebook for ultimate Facebook integration after the user is authenticated.

Handles the authentication. Nothing more, nothing less. It returns a Catalyst::Authentication::User::Hash (this is a user object from your database - the user table should have a column called "facebook_id", which the authenticated Facebook user is checked against)

Jesse Stay <jesse@staynalive.com> http://staynalive.com

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.

Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication, WWW::Facebook::API

Bugs? Impossible!. Please report bugs to http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Create.html?Queue=Catalyst-Authentication-Credential-Facebook

Special thanks to David Romano and Clayton Scott for writing and maintaining WWW::Facebook::API