Facebook logout button and redirect after logout

facebook logout
Eugenio picture Eugenio · Jan 26, 2011 · Viewed 33k times · Source

I use this code

<fb:login-button autologoutlink="true" perms="user_likes" size="large"></fb:login-button>

to create a login/logout fb button. Everything works, after the login, the login button become a logout button. But If the user click on the logout button, the current page is not refreshed and so all the things that should appear only when the user is authenticated are still there until a manual page refresh is done.

This doesn't happen if I get the logout url (Javascript SDK)

$logoutUrl = $facebook->getLogoutUrl();

and then implement a logout button myself; in that case a proper "next" parameter (with the url of the current page) is passed and the current page is reloaded.

I still would like to use the first solution, is it possible to make it use the "next" parameter?

Answer

Piskvor left the building picture Piskvor left the building · Jan 26, 2011

Do the redirect yourself - add this to JavaScript, somewhere after FB.init():

<script>
  FB.Event.subscribe("auth.logout", function() {window.location = '/logout'});
</script>

This function will fire when logout through the FB button happens.

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