title: How to read the birthday_date from the Facebook API
body: <p>I have been chasing my tail on this! And it should be so simple!!</p>
  
  <p>I have an app in FaceBook that is working fine. However, I need to get the user's birth date. I have successfully got the request for extended permissions, but cannot get the birthday_date out and into a variable/store in database.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php
  require_once('facebook.php');
  $facebook = new Facebook(array(
  'appId'  =&gt; 'xxxxx',
  'secret' =&gt; 'yyyyyyy',
  'cookie' =&gt; true
  ));
  if ($facebook-&gt;getSession()) { 
  $uid = $facebook-&gt;getUser();
  $fbme = $facebook-&gt;api('/me');
  } else {
  $params = array(
      'fbconnect'=&gt;0,
      'canvas'=&gt;1,
      'req_perms'=&gt;'publish_stream','email','user_location','user_birthday'
  );
  $loginUrl = $facebook-&gt;getLoginUrl($params);
  print "&lt;script type='text/javascript'&gt;top.location.href = '$loginUrl';&lt;/script&gt;";
  }
  $session = $facebook-&gt;getSession();
  $token = $session['access_token'];
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I would be very grateful if someone could show me the PHP code that reads the extended permissions and places the results into variables.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks Steve</p>