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14 years 9 months ago #13162 by m.iannozzi

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Hello,
is possible to have a username equal to email at user registration?
There is any way to have it?

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14 years 9 months ago #13168 by alzander

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What registration mode are you using, Full Joomla User or Facebook User Only? It should be easy to hard-code that in a few different ways.

The only problem I can see is that if the user chooses not to grant access to their real email address, their username will be a very long email address that Facebook uses to filter emails to that user. It should work, but it's a very, very long and strange looking email (and hence username), which may cause problems with any components you're using which may show the user's username.

Thanks,
Alex

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14 years 9 months ago #13172 by m.iannozzi

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Hello Alex,
I'm using "Facebook User Only". I understand email address grant problem but I would like have user equal to email :-)

If you can tell me what I need to change I try to do it :-)

Also my user are confused when receive registration email because they read something like
"From now on you can connect to XXX using username and password with which you registered."
The problem is that email doesn't contain username and password and they don't understand what username and password they can use.
Will be good if in email can be included username and password created by facebook login in registration process so If they want use instead facebook login for future access....they can....

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14 years 9 months ago #13185 by alzander

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The code change is below. Just so you know, in the 4.0 release (due out today/tomorrow), this code will be different. You'll still be able to do exactly what you're looking for, but the code to modify has been moved to a much better location. When you move to 4.0, just let us know, and we'll provide a similar (easy) code change.

To make the username automatically be the email address for Facebook User's Only in JFBC v3.4, edit the /plugins/authentication/jfbconnnectauth.php file. At line 149, you'll see the following.

$username = $this->_getAutoUsername($fbUser, $fbUserId);
                    $user['username'] = $username;

Change that to:

//         $username = $this->_getAutoUsername($fbUser, $fbUserId);
                    $user['username'] = $newEmail;

The first line you're just commenting out so you don't run unnecessary code generating the 'new' username (that won't be used).

Let us know how that goes, and good luck!
Alex

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14 years 9 months ago #13187 by alzander

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I've added a note to our case tracker to look into the emails that we're sending to see if they can be improved. Right now, we're using the standard Joomla new user emails, but can understand how that may be a problem. It won't be fixed in 4.0, but can see improving it shortly thereafter.

Thanks,
Alex

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14 years 9 months ago #13220 by m.iannozzi

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Hello Alex. Thansk a lot. It works very good. I have updated to 4.0 and I have found below code in components/com_jfbconnect/controllers/loginregister.php
$username = $loginRegisterModel->getAutoUsername($fbUser, $fbUserId, $usernamePrefixFormat);
$user = $username;

I have modified it as below:
if ($fbUser != null)
{
$user = $fbUser;
} else {
$username = $loginRegisterModel->getAutoUsername($fbUser, $fbUserId, $usernamePrefixFormat);
$user = $username;
}

Thanks a lot also for try to improve email register notification. Will be good if user receive username and password (generated automatically at registration phase) so he can choose to continuous login with facebook or use their username and password.
Thanks a lot again.

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14 years 9 months ago #13224 by alzander

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Yeah, we've considered adding the automatic password in the past. It's actually pretty easy to do in that same section. I'll try to rummage up the code and post it here soon. Hopefully, everything with 4.0 is working fine for you.. but if you run into issues, just let us know. So far, so (mostly good) though

Finally, please consider leaving a rating and review on the Joomla Extension Directory for JFBConnect, or our support. It's certainly not required, but very appreciated!
extensions.joomla.org/extensions/social-...ook-integration/7215

Thanks, and best of luck,
Alex

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