Autologin not working immediately

Paul,
If I described it as a bug in Facebook, I was a little off. Basically, they made a change late last year which changed the behavior of how things work. That feature change broke how JFBConnect was working to perform the auto-logins, now making it happen on the second page refresh. We have plans in the works to fix this in an upcoming release (4.2, if not a 4.1.x release sooner). I'll gladly say it's a bug in JFBConnect at this point, but something that's going to take a little more investigation to find the fool-proof implementation we need to make sure it works across everyone's sites.

If you're going to brute force something, let's do it in a way that will help us both. The below code, I think will do what you're looking for. It's completely untested, so may not work.. however, it will be similar to what we're planning to do but we'll likely put more checks in place. We'd love to have your feedback positive or negative on this so that we can better refine it for the upcoming release.

Changes:
In /plugins/system/jfbcsystem/jfbsystem.php, around like 167, you'll see:Add the following line right after that:It's possible that's all you will need. It's also possible that this will cause some oddness when a user actually clicks the Login With Facebook button.

Hopefully though, it's that simple. Please let us know what you find though!

Thanks,
Alex

Paul,
I was wrong. Add the following line:The other one above would still probably work, but would flash the login box popup briefly.. not something you want

Keep us posted,
Alex

Paul,
I responded to this earlier, but unfortunately, we had a server outage which actually caused a small loss of data including my post response. Never a good thing, and thankfully the first time that's ever happened in over 3 years.

Anyways, just wanted to finalize this thread (again). I'm very glad to hear the above worked and that you don't see any issues. We're definitely working on more fully implementing this in the 4.2 release. The above code basically ignores the "Auto-login" setting in JFBConnect. We'll obviously need to check that is enabled before auto-logging in as well as some other checks to make sure all the different modes work properly.

If you run into any issues with this setting over time, we'd definitely like to hear about it. I can't think of anything off hand, but Facebook integration has many moving parts, so it's always possible

Best of luck,
Alex

Paul,
Sorry for not responding sooner. I'll try to answer each question best, though there may not be an ideal solution, I think what you have is working better than you think..

Only problem is that new users to the site get redirected away from the landing page.

This would only be for users that have installed your application (authenticated through Facebook) but not actually gone through your registration process. If someone who's logged into Facebook, but hasn't authenticated your application, visits, they shouldn't be taken on this path. For your testing purposes, I can see why you see this more often (you delete the J! user, but are still authenticated through Facebook). Most users won't see this though unless they didn't convert, like you mention...

For testing as a 'clean' user, make sure you both delete any J! accounts associated with the user and in Facebook, go to Account Settings -> Apps and remove the application. That will de-authenticate, so you can test as a FB user that never authenticated.

This workaround youve offered me is great. However its impacting my conversion process by forcing all facebook users in a path.

Just to re-say it, all Facebook user's don't go down this path.. just the ones who previously haven't converted.

So is it possible that this redirect is only performed for known users on the site?

Not sure what you mean by this.. if you mean users that already have J! accounts, they shouldn't go to the reg page anyways.. if it's for users that haven't created an account but have authenticated your FB app, that should be what's happening now.

Hopefully, that explains a little bit more. There are a few options I can see:
1) Change the User Creation setting to "Facebook User Only". This will automatically create the Joomla user and skip the reg page altogether.
2) Modify the Login/Register page of JFBConnect to have a big notice at the top explaining why to register and how they got to that page.

Hope that explains, but if you have other questions, let me know,
Alex