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12 years 10 months ago #35381 by petgal
Hi,
I'm about to upgrade to jomsocial 3 and i'm concerned that the upgrade may break something with JFBconnect. If I follow JomSocial's basic upgrade instructions will I be alright or do you have any advice that I should consider when making this upgrade.

Appreciate the help.

Thanks.
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12 years 10 months ago #35387 by alzander
Peter,
JomSocial v3 actually has a setting built-in for integration with JFBConnect. For more information about the integration, and how to work with JomSocial 3, see our integration guide:
www.sourcecoast.com/jfbconnect/docs/thir...ration-for-jomsocial

We already have a lot of users with both JomSocial v3 and JFBConnect v5 on their sites. The upcoming (next week) v5.1 release of JFBConnect will have some minor compatibility updates for JomSocial integration as well, but in general, things should work as expected right now.

I hope that helps answer your question,
Alex
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12 years 10 months ago #35394 by petgal
Thanks. Will give it a go on my development site and test it there first. Thanks
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12 years 10 months ago #35407 by alzander
We'd always recommend using a development site first :) Definitely let us know if you run into any issues. As mentioned, there are some minor fixes we have for the upcoming v5.1 release with JomSocial 3, but in general, things seem to be going very well.

Thanks,
Alex
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12 years 10 months ago #35429 by petgal
Hi Alex,
Did the upgrade on my test site and it installed well, but I have lost some important functionality.
1) Where users were logged in automatically they are not.
2) The login button now leads to the new JS3 login page, whereas it used to go to page without the JS language and with your login w FB button.

I've asked JS support for help and they pushed back with a question about whether or not I use a custom plugin. I'm embarrased to say that I don't and was wondering if you could help me understand how this works on my own site. Would really appreciate it.

I believe that the login/signup buttons are controlled by a php module (like I know what that is), but I don't know how this module interacts, with Joomla, JomSocial and JFBconnect.

Would you be kind enough to explain this to me and help me get this working so I can install it on my production site with no problem?

I'll send you a private message with the login details.

Thanks
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12 years 10 months ago #35454 by alzander
Peter,
Thanks for the credentials. I went into your admin area and in the JomSocial -> Configuration -> Facebook Connect section, and set "Use SourceCoast's JFBC" to "Yes". That automatically shows the JFBConnect "Facebook" button on the JomSocial home page.

After that, I registered using the Login with Facebook button... logged off, waited 15 minutes and then revisited the page. I was automatically logged back in as expected. The 15 minutes is required since JFBConnect won't try to automatically log a user in after they've clicked the logout button (so as not to annoy the user by logging them back in).

Finally, you're login button is created using the mod_php module called "Login PHP Module". That's a custom module that you can enter any text you want. At the bottom of the text area is a link to JomSocial's login page:
index.php?option=com_community&Itemid=121

If you want something different, you'll need to edit that line.

All in all, it sounds like the upgrade went smoothly as none of these are JFBConnect issues.. That's great! If you run into anything else, or have any questions though, just let me know.

Thanks,
Alex
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12 years 10 months ago #35458 by petgal
Thanks so much Alex. Really can't praise your service level enough.

Still some problems/questions though. First time I read your answer and checked the login page looked like the official jomsocial login page with the facebook login button. But then I went back and checked again. It looked like this:
screencast.com/t/PnNNBMymn

Then I refreshed the page/went through a few login/logout phases
and then it looked like this
screencast.com/t/d8N0DCVjqpJ
Shows the official Jomsocial login page BUT NO FACEBOOK LOGIN button.

Had another question but this one is more important. Any idea what's going on?
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12 years 10 months ago - 12 years 10 months ago #35459 by petgal
And now I see the FB login button. How weird is that?
screencast.com/t/o8dwATLyC
Last edit: 12 years 10 months ago by petgal.
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12 years 10 months ago #35460 by petgal
Ok. so this seems to be working fine now, which leads me to the questions I wanted to ask:
1) Do I have to copy this code
index.php?option=com_community&Itemid=121
into the php login module on the live site?

2) How is it that I got this login page
screencast.com/t/vJbYRt61mw
on my live site. It seems to bypass the official jomsocial login page. I may want to do the same with the new Jomsocial.
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12 years 10 months ago #35461 by petgal
On re-reading your answer I now understand that this code
index.php?option=com_community&Itemid=121
is what uses the official JS login page.

Curious to know how to either customize that page, or just get the page on my live site.
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