SocialController@getLogin -- Provider is always null

[nicholeous]

Everything works perfectly except the provider parameter inside of SocialController@getLogin. For now I've forced it to always be facebook instead of accepting a parameter but I would really like it to be extensible to other providers without having to change too much.

My changes:

/**
 * Social providers controller.
 *
 * @author Mark Manos
 */
class SocialController extends Controller
{
    /**
     * Login action.
     *
     * @param string $provider
     *
     * @return mixed
     */
    public function getLogin($provider = null)
    {
/* This is the part that always fails. Provider is always null.
        if (empty($provider)) {
            App::abort(404);
        }
*/
        $provider = 'facebook';

I followed the readme instructions by passing in array('facebook'), array('provider'=>'facebook') and no parameters and nothing seems to work. I've tried both with and without the onsuccess and onerror params as well.

<a href="{{ route('social-login', array('provider'=>'facebook')) }}?onsuccess=/blog&onerror=/login">
    Log in with FaceBook
</a>

Currently using Laravel 4.2 on homestead.

Any ideas? Did I set something up incorrectly?

[fobus42]

You can check my answer here: #13 (comment)

I had the same problem, and fixed by using this way.