private function connectToFacebook(){
        require_once "/path/to/facebook.php";

        // Get an instance of the Facebook class distributed as the PHP SDK by facebook:
        Yii::app()->params['facebook'] = new Facebook(array(
            'appId'  => 'YOUR APP ID',
            'secret' => 'YOUR SEKRET #',
            'cookie' => true,
        ));

        $session = Yii::app()->params['facebook']->getSession();
        $encodedSession = json_encode($session);

        if ($session) {
            Yii::app()->params['facebook']->setSession($session, true);
            Yii::app()->params['facebook']->setCookieFromSession($session);

            try {
                    //$uid = $facebook->getUser();
                    Yii::app()->params['me'] = Yii::app()->params['facebook']->api('/me');
            } catch (FacebookApiException $e) {
                    //die($e);
            }
        }
    }

   function __construct($id,$module=null) {
       parent::__construct($id, $module);
       $this->connectToFacebook();
   }