Auto-login feature??

Just to follow-up on what Mati said.. The automatic login-popup that you see on other sites are when you've followed a post from within Facebook. If you go directly to the App page that would normally log you in by clicking through a post or timeline feed, it won't ask to auto-log you in.

With that said, you can enable Authenticated Referrals for any links within Facebook that lead to your Canvas Application. When enabled, the user will have to authenticate (login) before using your app. You can enable Authenticated Referrals by going into your Facebook Application configuration, going to the Settings -> Auth Dialog section and turning it on in the bottom.

We haven't tested this with Auto Login Facebook Users mode of JFBConnect.. it's something we're evaluating for our 4.2 release, so any experience you have with it would be appreciated. Depending on how Facebook performs the login process, it may not automatically create the user. If that's the case, we can likely help you to 'force' that for now, until it's properly implemented in 4.2.

Thanks,
Alex

Johnson,
If you set the "User Creation" mode of JFBConnect to "Facebook User Only", that will create a user account in Joomla the first time the user clicks the "Login With Facebook" button. If you're using the Canvas and have the Authenticated Referrals enabled, that's the only time the user may not be created automatically, but that's not a common usage of JFBConnect. If so though, let us know.

Thanks,
Alex

Johnson,
I think I know what you're talking about. When you use the "Facebook User Only" mode of JFBConnect, a Joomla user is created without a password. The only way for this user to log in (at that time) is with their Facebook credentials. They can use the "Forgot Password" link to get a new one if they'd like to login without using Facebook credentials.

We're looking into, for the 4.2 release, an option for the admin to set which will generate a random password for the user. That way, when the user returns, they can login with either Facebook credentials or Joomla ones.

Hope that helps explain,
Alex

BGF,
We've helped a few users get Authenticated Referrals working to automatically log the user's in with the current 4.1.x series of JFBConnect. The upcoming 4.2 will make it even easier to implement. In some cases, depending on your configuration of things, will work automatically, but in others, there will be a few minor code changes to get Authenticated Referrals fully working.

Either way, we'll gladly help how we can with either the 4.1 release or 4.2, if you're interested. You will need to be an active subscriber to get the latest updates as well as for us to provide the priority support it would take to help you get things going.

Hope that helps,
Alex