Community Builder API

Simon,
Woah! Very sorry for the delay in getting back to this. It seems to have skipped out of my to-do list somewhere along the way.

Are you still working on this? I'm glad you found that the events were being called. We couldn't recreate what you were seeing before, so that helps get us on the same page. As for your questions:
The Password, may be handed off to CB but you may have to look for it differently. If you're using the "Facebook User Only" setting, it's definitely not handed because there is no Joomla user password that goes with it. If you're using "Full Joomla User" it may not be coming in the $cbUser variable (not sure), but if it isn't, you can fetch the entered password by checking JRequest::getString('password'). That will only work during registration though.

With that said, and since you may not be able to get the password at all, more explanation of how you're syncing to your other DB may help. If possible, the best to do would be to map a row in your other database to the user ID in Joomla. Then, when a login happens in Joomla, you simply tell the other DB that the user is logged in.. bypassing authentication altogether which is already happening in Joomla. Not sure if that's possible, or makes sense, but hopefully helps.

Again, sorry for the delay, and should you still be wrestling with this and need help, please let us know.

Thanks,
Alex

Simon,
Just responded to your other post as well. I understand why CB errors wouldn't display, but not sure why Joomla ones are being hidden. That's definitely not normal.

I'm glad to hear you got this going, but should you need to refine it further, or need other help, just let us know,
Alex

Peter,
Our CB integration works very well out of the box. If you're trying to do extra things (hook into it, have extra CB plugins that need to function in a particular way, etc), you may run into trouble.. that's not the general case though. We have hundreds (likely thousands) of sites that use CB and JFBConnect together, and we test the profile import functionality very thoroughly, as it's the most common need.

With CB and JFBConnect, you can automatically import some information from Facebook into the user's account as well as adding additional fields to JFBConnect's registration page to ask for more information like you're looking for. Both CB and JomSocial are good options for this purpose. CB is free, JomSocial is not. If all you need is profile fields, CB is a good start. If you want a full blown community on your site, CB can do it, but we'd recommend JomSocial.

Hope that helps,
Alex