Fixing Facebook’s PHP SDK logout

By on June 20, 2011

If you request the “offline_access” permission when using the Facebook PHP SDK (and sometimes even without it), it makes the default logout functionality not work very well.  To fix this, here’s what worked for me:

  1. Change your logout url: 
    $logoutUrl = $facebook->getLogoutUrl(array( 'next' => ($fbconfig['baseurl'].'logout.php') ));
  2. On your logout.php page, add the following code: 
    setcookie('fbs_'.$facebook->getAppId(), '', time()-100, '/', 'domain.com');
session_destroy();
header('Location: /');

This should correctly logout your users.

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30 responses to “Fixing Facebook’s PHP SDK logout”

  1. Sandip Ghosh
    Sandip Ghosh July 1, 2011 at 9:24 am |

    Thanks!… It work’s nice!…

  2. pushkar rana
    pushkar rana July 21, 2011 at 9:45 pm |

    i want that user must go through fb login everytime….but above solution not work fine for me!.
    Any idea what should I do?

  3. Sam
    Sam July 26, 2011 at 3:18 pm |

    Check your login link, it may be setting a cookie.

  4. Jay
    Jay July 27, 2011 at 12:07 pm |

    hi, you didn’t tell that we had to include the facebook js to the logout.php page! It wouldn’t work for me until I included it.

    eg

    require ‘scripts/facebook.php’;

    // Create our Application instance (replace this with your appId and secret).
    $facebook = new Facebook(array(
    ‘appId’ => ‘xxxxxxxxxxxxxx’,
    ‘secret’ => ‘xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx’,
    ));

    setcookie(‘fbs_’.$facebook->getAppId(), ”, time()-100, ‘/’, ‘http://www.repjesus.com’);
    session_destroy();
    header(‘Location: /’);

  5. Carl-Fredrik Herö
    Carl-Fredrik Herö September 9, 2011 at 8:29 am |

    THANK YOU! I was going nuts.

  6. Ben Baker
    Ben Baker September 27, 2011 at 12:35 am |

    You are a star! Bejesus that was right pain!

  7. Indira Chavez
    Indira Chavez January 18, 2012 at 1:10 pm |

    Thank you very much!!!!You just save my life today. I was getting lots of errors and then I found this. Problem solved.
    Thanks again!!!!

  8. Francis
    Francis February 1, 2012 at 5:30 pm |

    wow i was stuck with logout problem for hours and you just fixed it. Thanks a million times! ;P

  9. sridevi
    sridevi March 14, 2012 at 2:24 pm |

    SAM Thank you Very Much….

  10. phpdog
    phpdog March 28, 2012 at 9:10 am |

    solution for facebook logout url not working

    http://phpdog.blogspot.in/2012/03/solution-for-facebook-logouturl-not.html

  11. rob
    rob April 6, 2012 at 2:43 am |

    Fixed it, finally! THANKS!

  12. dpasqua
    dpasqua April 17, 2012 at 11:38 am |

    Thanks, It helped me a lot.

  13. Attila
    Attila April 19, 2012 at 2:52 pm |

    Hi,
    It is quite strange. I tried to logout user with official method: $facebook->getLogoutUrl(); It creates a link which looks good (https, token, etc.). It redirects to facebook logout.php than back to my page but the session remains same: FB.getLoginStatus: connected.
    Now with your solution I can’t create the Cookie. I can create other Cookies e.g.: setcookie(“TestCookie”, ‘blah blah’); but after the redirection your Cookie not exists in the Console. :(
    Do you have any idea?

  14. ashish kumar gupta
    ashish kumar gupta April 23, 2012 at 12:23 am |

    Thank you very much.
    this code solved my problem……………..

  15. Sushant
    Sushant June 2, 2012 at 6:21 pm |

    Thank you. I was stuck for an hr finding solution to logout. Even the fb docs dont have a good explanation.

  16. Wallace
    Wallace June 11, 2012 at 10:04 am |

    what it’s a baseurl ?
    i don’t have in my facebook config.

  17. Sam
    Sam June 23, 2012 at 10:02 am |

    It’s just a value in the “fbconfig” array that I set up to hold the values related to the API. It’s not necessary, just a convenience to make the code more organized. You can just type in your site’s domain name.

  18. Ashish
    Ashish July 9, 2012 at 5:15 am |

    In codeigniter, I have fixed it.
    The cookie name is PHPSESSID

    http://ashish-thakur.blogspot.in/2012/07/facebook-php-sdk-logout-resolved.html

  19. Lalit Kumar
    Lalit Kumar July 12, 2012 at 7:28 am |

    Thanks a lot, It works :-)

  20. pavanpareek
    pavanpareek August 21, 2012 at 11:33 pm |

    thinks….

  21. shanmao
    shanmao August 28, 2012 at 3:05 am |

    Thank you very much!!!!

  22. prasetyawan
    prasetyawan September 13, 2012 at 10:37 am |

    Thanks Bro.. it works great :)

  23. Joko Widodo (Jokowi)
    Joko Widodo (Jokowi) September 27, 2012 at 6:27 am |

    Thanks Dude, it works like a charm,

  24. Arti Goyal
    Arti Goyal October 14, 2012 at 3:00 pm |

    Very nice tutorial..Thanks

  25. Michael
    Michael December 24, 2012 at 4:40 am |

    Thank you so much!

  26. Siddharth Das
    Siddharth Das January 16, 2013 at 12:38 am |

    THANK YOU SO MUCH !!! I have no idea how it works ..but it works !!

  27. Amit
    Amit February 2, 2013 at 8:12 am |

    Thank you very much SAM

  28. aung ko
    aung ko February 4, 2013 at 3:53 pm |

    Can you please prefer for $fbconfig?

  29. Jon
    Jon March 20, 2013 at 11:34 pm |

    My goodness. I’ve been losing my mind in frustration for over an hour. Thank you so much for this post!

  30. vijetha
    vijetha April 5, 2013 at 5:24 am |

    thanks a lot

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