JFBConnect with Community Builder 1.3.1

Thanks, Alex! We will install it on a dev environment and give it a spin. I will get back to you with our findings and a short list of the things that would help us most in a next version. Thank you!
Oliver

Hello,

As you know, I am playing around with the latest version on our site. In addition to the other question/answer thread we have going, I wanted to let you know about the top three requirements I would much appreciate if addressed in a future version. They are all kind of related.

1. Currently, I am creating Full Joomla Users because it seems the only way I can have the user choose a username at registration. I actually don't need them to have full joomla accounts. I would be more than happy with 'Facebook user only'. However, I need them to be able to choose a username, which is displayed on the user profile, and fb_{Facebook User ID} just would not look very good there.

2. The ability to post a message to a users Facebook wall at registration is great. It really contributes to word of mouth. However, as always, some people are not happy at all when stuff gets posted to their wall. Of course, we ask for it per our TOS which the Facebook pop-up asks people to accept before registering it, but arguing with a new user about who is right, etc. is not very helpful. So, the requirement would be to have the user have an option to un-check a check box to post to his wall at the time of registration. It would be great, if the user could see at this point i) the text that would be posted, and ii) a small text I could write on why we ask to post this. This could maybe be in a screen or window prior to the user getting sent to the Facebook log-on screen. It would be fantastic to combine it with the requirement one above: the user could be displayed a field to choose the username at the same time.

3. Last but not least, an opportunity to explain to the user why the Facebook permissions being requested are asked for. For example, 'we ask for your location to match you with users in the same area'. Again, ideally combined with the above two requirements.

Thanks very much!
Oliver

OK. I am looking forward to the next version then. That would be really good things to have.

Oliver

Hi Alex,

Quick question: How can I turn on SSL so that the username/password is handled over https after the user is being asked for them when creating a Full Joomla User?

Thank you,
Oliver

Really? Oh wow! That is a rather big shortcoming I'd say. We found a way to make the regular sign-up over SSL and turn SSL on for certain menus. But in order to get the JBFC run over SSL we'd have to turn on SSL for the entire site? Maybe silly question: but do the guys at Joomla understand this all or nothing shortcoming of theirs? Are you aware if they might have plans to fix that in the near future?

Hi Alex,

Thanks for the detailed post. Let me explain: We got all cb logins and the cb registration running over SSL. This is possible because you can force, for example, menu items to use SSL. This is also possible with some other modules, because they have been made in a way that they can be chosen as menu items. If there was a way to set a menu item as type 'JFBConnect/login' then I think it would be possible to do exactly what we need. And that is:

Right now, when a user clicks for the first time on the Login via Facebook button, the FB window pops up, handles the login (using SSL as you say) to Facebook, and then leads to the Joomla page on our site from JFBC where it asks the user to either create a new account or associate with an existing one. It is that page which is not run over SSL.

Or in other words: We have all logins and registration (except JFBC) run over SSL and the rest of the site without SSL and that without any htaccess rules. With JFBC we are lagging the ability to force the loginredirect account creation/associaton step for a full Joomla user creation. If the module could be set as a menu item, then it should be possible.

I hope this makes more sense. Thank you
Oliver

PS Btw, the other thread we are having re the invite part, if you get a chance to respond to that it would be great. It's been eluding us for a while now. Thanks for all your help!