Profile Integration with EasyBlog and EasyDiscuss possible?

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Is this something that is possibly coming up soon? I really really need this for easydiscuss.

Thanks for the response...

Just so everyone knows they said use JFBConnect and I guess they are going to help me with a Hack for adding the FB button and 2. pulling in the avatar which will be good for now I guess. That is all I need.

i need a third hack too that will work with JPayplans so that it can send people to the subscription / registration page and they use JFBConnect already so that's good.

It's funny but on StackIdeas site they have all these hacks which make their product seem really robust,,, which it is but it almost seems perfect. I implored to them to implement the solution as people would benefit greatly from it.

Lastly, the EasySocial looks amazing. Hope the version works out fine.

Thanks, Christian..

Oh and if their is one more SSO you can look into it would be Ecwid shopping cart. It is the best joomla version by far.

alzander wrote: Christian,
Sorry for the delayed response to this.

I'm glad to hear they're able to help you some. We do have a plan for a full-fleged EazyDiscuss social plugin, but again, it's just not available right now. I'm not sure what you're actually saying about JPayPlans (mainly, who's helping you).. but it sounds like you have a course of action there as well.

For StackIdeas in general, we agree their software is pretty sweet. We just moved to EasyBlog for our our blog, and very happy we did. EasySocial does look cool, and we'll definitely be working with that.

Finally, for Ecwid, what kind of integration are you looking for? When you saying SSO, are you saying people should be able to login with Ecwid credentials or that profile import from Facebook should work into Ecwid fields? We've heard of a few Ecwid users in the past, but it's not something we hear from a large percent of our user base, so more info on what you'd like would help us understand what could be done.

Thanks,
Alex

I am pretty well versed in css and like to get things looking just right. With that said take a look at what I have been able to do with EasyDiscuss and the JFBlogin Connect. I have integrated it pretty well with both Payplans and Easydiscuss. easydiscuss integration

You will notice that if the person is not logged in and subscribed to the section they cannot gain access to view or obtain things from the site. pretty cool.

Next, The Ecwid shopping cart is amazing. it is web based that has wonderful ajax integration for both Joomla and Wordpress. You never have to update it as they updates they make are automatically done for you. Here is an example of my site here. Again, there are many css updates so it doesn't have to look the way i have altered it. My Ecwid Payment Page

With that said, Ecwid has very strong API's which include a SSO option. Problem is this. The one SSO that was written in 2011 for a joomla plugin doesn't work very well and seems to cause other headaches than achieving any real success. www.ecwid.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7297 <<< that is the plugin that is available now. Here is a summary of what one person said in regards to why the SSO plugin doesn't work very well.

Customer comes to site...
the customer is NOT logged into the joomla site and navigates to joomla ecwid shop, buys something then clicks check out.

That customer completes the purchase form, fills out the details and makes the payment.

Errors
1. The customer is not forced to create a account with the site
2. The customer has no account area
A. cannot add or change address
B. cannot view orders made
3. Returning customers have to enter their details again

Has there been any fix's to these issues yet?

the other issues are...

Customer comes to site...
Customer logs into joomla site
Navigates to joomla ecwid shop, buys something then clicks check out.

1. The customer has no account area
A. cannot add or change address
B. cannot view orders made

Although the plug-in does what it says it does and does it very well...
It creates more problems for me...

Until these issues are fixed im going to stay using the ecwid shop the old way.
If someone can correct me im all ears.

So essentially what it sounds like the plugin is doing is bypassing the Ecwid Sign in / account area entirely... which is very NOT desirable because there are many benefits and features that come along with having orders viewed on account info once signed in. All the SSO should do is this.

When logged into joomla account you should automatically be logged into Ecwid. just in a parrallel sense. everything with Ecwid is the same... account info and all.

Next if you do not have a site account, and this is really where JFBConnect could come to the rescue you could for example click "login with FB" and WAHHLAAAH have an instant Site account and Ecwid account already to go. Or event if the person doesn't register with FB but rather the site then that SSO should have a "register here" link so the user can register their Joomla site account.

Again, the importance of running an SSO is critical here because people always need to revist their orders for example there could be a download attachment with the order... yikes I don't know what that other plugin was thinking.

In any event their API's are very well written and strong... maybe feature liking but nevertheless they always work very well. Here is their SSO API... kb.ecwid.com/w/page/43883623/Single%20Sign-On%20API

so with that said if you did a little simple something for Ecwid users they would love you and probably purchase your plugin because of it.

For me it is super important too because people mostly purchase things from my site and they sometimes don't signup for an account even with Ecwid. Even though they are could have to go back in and download something that I add after their purchase. If they would have the option to just sign in with the site in general that would be great and so much more beneficial IMHO.

let me know what you think of it and their API.

oh one last thing. There are many many people that use Ecwid so don't sleep on it. They need better joomla integration and I am working on a couple products that are plugins for Acymailing and Ohanah so the more plugins the more powerful the community will become for them and us.

no I understand and here are my thoughts on perhaps something I could commission on my own perhaps.

ok so my question is... does it have to be jfbconnect? meaning that an SSO could be with joomla and then hence the JFBConnect button would just be thrown in there to have them go to the registration page and form. Am I thinking about this correctly?

Sort of an alternative method to having the functionality without hacking the JFB code.

So again, would focusing on Joomla SSO be a viable option.

Hey how are you

I didn't get this part:
My guess is that a separate SSO extension is probably what would be best. However, if Ecwid does store user credentials that can be used on multiple sites, then integration into JFBConnect could be a good solution (and v5.1 would be much easier to implement that on).

Why would this option be better with Ecwid integration. And still i am not sure how the two would go together. I want to commission this but I want to know what extension this could be better based off of. I am thinking that if I develop it to SSO into Joomla than it should work regardless of how JFB updates.

Sorry I am not a dev but I can get the project done I just need to know the proper line of attack.

thanks for your help.