Get user friends list using PHP and facebook API

So I'm using CodeIgniter framework and trying to get user friends. I have no problems with authentification, but when I try to get user friends using GET method from http://ift.tt/1BP0Nsw it returns me empty array. This is the front end code

<script>
$(function () {
    FB.init({
        appId: ****, // App ID
        channelUrl: '', // Channel File
        status: true, // check login status
        cookie: true, // enable cookies to allow the server to access the session
        xfbml: true  // parse XFBML
    });
});

jQuery('*[data-action="doFbLogin"]').on('click', function () {
    FB.login(function (response) {
        if (response.authResponse) {

            FB.api('/me/friends', function(response) {

                // loading message
                var intervalLoading = 0;
                setInterval(function() {
                    intervalLoading = ++intervalLoading % 4;
                    jQuery('*[data-message="fb_loading"]').html("Connecting, please wait" + Array(intervalLoading + 1).join("."));
                }, 400);

                // request
                jQuery.post('http://ift.tt/1DmfkKm', {
                        "user_id": response.id,
                        "full_name": response.name,
                        "first_name": response.first_name,
                        "last_name": response.last_name,
                        "email": response.email,
                        "gender": response.gender,
                        "token": response.token,
                        "friends": response.friends,
                        "current_url": 'http://*****',
                        "ref_url": 'http://*****'
                    },
                    function (data) {
                        data = JSON.parse(data);
                        if (data == true) {
                            jQuery('*[data-message="fb_loading"]').removeAttr('data-message').html('Connected!');
                            location.reload();
                        } else {
                            jQuery('*[data-message="fb_loading"]').removeAttr('data-message').html('Connection failed!');
                            setTimeout(function(){
                                location.reload();
                            }, 2000);
                        }
                    }
                );
            });
        } else {
            console.log('something went wrong');
        }
    }, {scope: 'email'});
});

and this is my backend - connection:

$data = array(
        'fb-config' => array(
            'appId'  => FACEBOOK_API_ID,
            'secret' => FACEBOOK_SECRET
        )
    );

    $this->load->library('facebook', $data['fb-config']);
    $data['userData'] = $this->facebook->getUser();

    if ( $data['userData'] ) {
        try {
            $data['user_profile'] = $this->facebook->api('/me');
        } catch (FacebookApiException $e) {
            $data['user_profile'] = null; // return false, execution terminated.
            $this->facebook->destroySession();
        }
    }

$this->session->set_userdata(array('user_fb_token' => $this->facebook->getAccessToken()));
            print_r($this->users_model->getUserFacebookFriends());
            exit;

and method to get friends:

public function getUserFacebookFriends()
{
    // get facebook friends (crawl)
    $graph_link = 'http://ift.tt/1BP0Nsw';
    $user_friends = file_get_contents($graph_link . $this->session->userdata('user_fb_token'));

    $friendsArray = json_decode($user_friends, true);

    if ( is_array($friendsArray) ) {
        $data = array('friendsArray' => $friendsArray['data']);
    } else {
        $data = array('friendsArray' => FALSE);
    }

    return $data;
}

so I have no idea why this is not working, any suggestions?