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Hi there,

First of all - love the component. Its been the perfect addition for my site, and makes the whole process of signing up new users so much easier.

There's just one thing missing that it would be great if JFB Connect could do; I don't know if this is possible, but I'd love it if it was. Basically I need a way to copy the contact number of a Facebook user to their Jomsocial profile. Its for a charity site - we're going to be sending out SMS messages to remind users to check themselves for cancer symptoms - and the easiest way to do it would be if we could get the details from their facebook profiles, rather than having them enter it all over again.

Would this be possible?
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15 years 1 month ago #8968 by alzander
While we can get a lot of information from a user's profile, phone number is not currently one. About a month ago, Facebook announced a policy change what would have allowed application developers to get at this information. However, that sparked a whole privacy discussion (even though you'd need to get approval for that permission, just like every other field), and they put that capability on hold.

They have stated that it will be available at some point, after they make some changes to their policy again. They haven't been specific as to when that will be though.

With 3.2, you can import a lot of information from the user's profile, and we've added the ability in this release to add additional fields to the registration page (if you're using the "Full Joomla User" user creation setting). That may be a good way to get the phone number, but may not work for your site.

Hope this helps explain, and glad you're liking JFBConnect!
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