title: PHP Facebook API - cannot obtain birthday from API
body: <p>I have a very simple Facebook app based on this authentication code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$session = $facebook-&gt;getUser();
  
  if (!$session) {
      $url = $facebook-&gt;getLoginUrl(array(
                 'canvas' =&gt; 1,
                 'fbconnect' =&gt; 0,
                 'scope' =&gt; 'publish_stream, email, user_activities, user_birthday, user_hometown'
                 //'req_perms' =&gt; 'publish_stream,email,user_location,user_birthday,user_hometown'
             ));
      echo "&lt;script type='text/javascript'&gt;top.location.href = 'FB_URL';&lt;/script&gt;";
  } else {
      try {
          $uid = $facebook-&gt;getUser();
          $me = $facebook-&gt;api('/me');
      } catch (FacebookApiException $e) {
          echo "&lt;script type='text/javascript'&gt;top.location.href = 'FB_URL';&lt;/script&gt;";
      exit;
      } 
  }
  
  echo "\n === \n";
  print_r($uid);
  echo "\n === \n";
  print_r($me);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The output is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>=== ID_VALUE === Array ( [id] =&gt; ID_VALUE [name] =&gt; NAME [first_name] =&gt; FIRST_NAME [last_name] =&gt; LAST_NAME [link] =&gt; PROFILE_URL [username] =&gt; USERNAME [gender] =&gt; male [email] =&gt; EMAIL [timezone] =&gt; 2 [locale] =&gt; en_US [verified] =&gt; 1 [updated_time] =&gt; 2012-05-16T13:00:04+0000 )
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I would expect that after specifying the extended permissions <code>user_birthday</code> and <code>user_hometown</code> I should get in the array also the information about users' birthday and hometown... but unfortunately these information are missing there...</p>
  
  <p>Am I missing something or what am I doing wrong?</p>