I followed the guide to build a facebook messenger bot from here
but in my software I receive alway an empty response.
here my bot code:
define('PAGE_TOKEN',"xxx");
define('VERIFY_TOKEN',"xxx");
if(isset($_GET['hub_mode']) && isset($_GET['hub_challenge']) && isset($_GET['hub_verify_token'])) {
if($_GET['hub_verify_token']==VERIFY_TOKEN && $_GET['hub_mode']=='subscribe') {
echo $_GET['hub_challenge'];
}
}
$input = json_decode(file_get_contents('php://input'), true);
// Get the Senders Graph ID
$sender = $input['entry'][0]['messaging'][0]['sender']['id'];
// Get the returned message
$message = $input['entry'][0]['messaging'][0]['message']['text'];
error_log($input);
error_log($sender);
error_log($message);
the verify phase is fine, but when i send a messagge to my bot in my error_log file I found only empty values:
[Sun Aug 13 17:35:49.617919 2017] [:error] [pid 22501] [client 173.252.124.11:18834]
[Sun Aug 13 17:35:49.617951 2017] [:error] [pid 22501] [client 173.252.124.11:18834]
[Sun Aug 13 17:35:49.617972 2017] [:error] [pid 22501] [client 173.252.124.11:18834]
Here there is also my access_log:
173.252.124.30 - - [13/Aug/2017:17:35:48 +0200] "POST /webhook HTTP/1.1" 301 3621 "-" "-"
173.252.124.11 - - [13/Aug/2017:17:35:49 +0200] "GET /webhook/ HTTP/1.1" 200 328 "-" "-"
so why the $input variable is alway empty?
173.252.124.30 - - [13/Aug/2017:17:35:48 +0200] "POST /webhook HTTP/1.1" 301 3621 "-" "-"
173.252.124.11 - - [13/Aug/2017:17:35:49 +0200] "GET /webhook/ HTTP/1.1" 200 328 "-" "-"
Your server answers the POST request with a 301 redirect, so that the client (Facebook) has to make a GET request next, and therefor you see no more POST data.
Seeing that the first URL is /webhook, and gets redirected to /webhook/, this is likely just an automatic trailing slash redirect, and should be fixed once you specify the correct URL with the trailing slash in your app settings to begin with.