Uncaught ReferenceError: FB is not defined when using FB.getLoginStatus

Question

I'm trying to check if a user has logged in using facebook and get that error in JS console. My code looks like this:

<div id="fb-root"></div>
<script>
    window.fbAsyncInit = function () {
        FB.init({
            appId: '######', // App ID
            status: true, // check login status
            cookie: true, // enable cookies to allow the server to access the session
            xfbml: true  // parse XFBML
        });
    };

    // Load the SDK Asynchronously
    (function (d) {
        var js, id = 'facebook-jssdk'; if (d.getElementById(id)) { return; }
        js = d.createElement('script'); js.id = id; js.async = true;
        js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js";
        d.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(js);
    }(document));

    FB.getLoginStatus(function (response) {
        if (response.status === 'connected') {
            // the user is logged in and has authenticated your
            // app, and response.authResponse supplies
            // the user's ID, a valid access token, a signed
            // request, and the time the access token
            // and signed request each expire
            var uid = response.authResponse.userID;
            var accessToken = response.authResponse.accessToken;
        } else if (response.status === 'not_authorized') {
            // the user is logged in to Facebook,
            // but has not authenticated your app
        } else {
            // the user isn't logged in to Facebook.
        }
    });
</script>

What could be the problem and are there any sugestions on how to fix it?

Answer 1

In Chrome, you'd be getting the error: Uncaught ReferenceError: FB is not defined.

I like to trigger a custom event in Facebook's initialization function, fbAsyncInit(). Then I'm not limited to doing all my FB related scripting inside of the fbAsyncInit function. I can put it anywhere, by just listening for that custom event to be fired.

window.fbAsyncInit = function() {
    FB.init({
        appId      : '123456789',
        status     : true,
        cookie     : true,
        xfbml      : true  
    });

    $(document).trigger('fbload');  //  <---- THIS RIGHT HERE TRIGGERS A CUSTOM EVENT CALLED 'fbload'
};

//MEANWHILE IN $(document).ready()
$(document).on(
    'fbload',  //  <---- HERE'S OUR CUSTOM EVENT BEING LISTENED FOR
    function(){
        //some code that requires the FB object
        //such as...
        FB.getLoginStatus(function(res){
            if( res.status == "connected" ){
                FB.api('/me', function(fbUser) {
                    console.log("Open the pod bay doors, " + fbUser.name + ".");
                });
            }
        });

    }
);