Carl, great to hear from ya. We made a somewhat-shout out to you in this new version by doing a check for your plugin. Hope it helps get more visibility for you. We'd love to have more add-ons created
Let us know if you see any issues with it. We only tested the check briefly, and can update it in the next one if you have suggestions.
As for the status messages, we tried to make it pretty darn simple. Just do:
include_once (JPATH_ROOT.DS.'components'.DS.'com_jfbconnect'.DS.'helpers'.DS.'facebookhelper.php');
JFBConnectFacebookHelper::setFacebookMessage("is doing something");
The setFacebookMessage call will do the proper checking to ensure that the admin has allowed 3rd parties to add status messages, will ensure it's not blank, and then ensure that Facebook accepts it properly (user allows status updates from the app) and catch any errors. Basically, just fire and forget with no return status for now.
Do look at this post which describes some minor issues with status updates for now:
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As for going for JomSocial only, I wouldn't argue with you on creating something specific for JomSocial. We're planning on updating our JFBCInvite to have a setting to work with JomSocial or JFBConnect so it's one module to fit them both. Then as we add features, it should hopefully work across both as well, which makes it easier than having 2 separate packages out there. As for JFBConnect, we'll be the first to admit this release took too long. We have a bunch more feature ideas, and we really want to focus on tighter integration between Joomla and Facebook stuff whereas JomSocial is, in a way, trying to recreate Facebook on the Joomla site. We love JS though, not knocking it, just different end goals. Also, we work with CB (and have a few sites working using AEC now too), so that's a wider audience you can target.
Either way, let us know if you have any issues working with the new version or any questions. We really cleaned up the code with this release, which was necessary to start wooing more 3rd party devs and promoting it even more. While there's no documentation yet, we'll try to come up with a few pointers.
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