Registration validator and FBConnect

Howdy Antoine,
We downloaded Registration Validator last night and are poking through it a little to figure out an answer for you. Basically, it has some code to look at different registration paths, and doesn't include JFBConnect. The code seems pretty straightforward, so I think we'll be able to give you a few lines of code that you'd have to add to their plugin to properly check JFBConnect's registration path.

We're looking into it now, but please be patient. We may not get an answer to you for a day or so, but we should be able to figure something out in relatively short order.

Please verify that you're using Registration Validator (the free version) and not v2.0 (the paid version). Want to make sure we're looking at the right thing.

Thanks!

Antoine,
Alright, in that case, there's 2 ways we can move forward. Generally, we don't buy 3rd party extensions just to do support unless it very popular or we plan to implement integration.. it can just get too expensive otherwise.

1) Contact the developer to see if they can add the functionality you're looking for. They can contact us anytime, and we'd gladly help them.
2) Email us the extension to test/develop with. (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) It's GPL, just like JFBConnect, so this is acceptable. We won't distribute it and would purchase it if we ever wanted to us it.. just cause that's the right thing to do. Once done, we (or you) can try to contribute these back to the plugin developer.
3) We can make some changes live on your site. To do this, please send us a super admin account. We'll install extPolorer (if not there) and try to add the features to their extension that you're looking for. This is our least favorite approach as we don't like working on live sites if we can avoid it (especially with system plugins which can be tricky).

We'll get you fixed up, and thanks for your complements about our support!

Thanks for the email. We got interested and decided to look into this sooner

From our testing, there's a very simple solution to your issue. Please edit the /plugins/system/cedit_registrationvalidator.php file. At line 176, you'll see a variable with called $registrationtasks. Simply add the following line to this list of items:
The rest of the code doesn't need to be modified. We setup a simple filter to prevent certain usernames, and the check worked as expected. This should work for any filters you setup, but obviously test.

Please let us know if this works, as we'd love to hear your results. We may try to contact the developers of that plugin cause I can see some benefits of how it could be used with JFBConnect in a few other ways.

Finally, if you'd like to vote or review for JFBConnect on the Joomla Extension Directory, we'd appreciate it.. though of course it's not necessary
extensions.joomla.org/extensions/social-...ook-integration/7215

Thanks, and good luck!

Really, all that does is tell the Registration Validator to run and perform it's checks during registration if the following is true:
1) If a form is being submitted from JFBConnect (com_jfbconnect)
2) AND the task being called is createnewuser

If those are true, and the checks pass, everything should proceed if normal. If the Validator fails, redirect the user to the URL specified on the right side of that line (the login/register page).

We only tested this quickly, but it did work for us. We'll do some more testing, but if you can tell us any information about the error your getting (what's the message, is it coming from the Validator, Joomla, or something else.. if you know) and information about what checks may be failing, that will help use recreate your situation.

Thanks, and we'll help you get to the bottom of it.