Topic-icon Assistance w/Integrating Facebook Page (business) to Joomla via FFBC

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I just paid for the subscription to obtain JFBC and understood it to conquer the interfacing obstacles that I face in integrating my business page on FB to my website and vice versa. However, I've hit a fundamental roadblock, I believe. Either I misunderstood the application itself, overall, or I am just not getting the process. I have to admit I'm inexperienced in completely integrating Facebook in this manner. I don't have a "Facebook app" that I'm trying to use, but instead, the "Facebook Page" itself. I want to be able to incorporate audiences that follow me on my facebook page to use certain features on the website, as well as be able to do some things on the website, and have it reflect on my facebook pages.

I see the auto-tune system in place to assist startup, but I cannot obtain a "Facebook Secret Key" for the page... Unless I missed something. I have my API ID for it, but that's where it stops. What do you suggest?

Thanks

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A Facebook "App" is necessary for a lot of integration with Facebook into your site. The Facebook 'App' is what allows users to authenticate on your site with Facebook. While you may not want general users to be able to login with Facebook, if you want to have content post automatically to your Facebook Page or read in the feed from your Facebook Page to show on your site, you (the admin) will need to login using Facebook on your site. That login will have some prompts to grant your Application (your website) permission to read or post to your Facebook Pages.

So, the first step to integrating with your Facebook Page is actually creating a Facebook App for your website so that your website can act on your behalf.

Here's some documentation pages that should be useful in getting you started:
* Facebook Application Setup Guide
* Enable the SCLogin module and login with Facebook on the front end. This will grant initial permissions that let you setup the link to your Facebook Page.
* Creating a social channel - This is what's used to post content to or read a feed from a Facebook Page
* Login again on the front-end again with Facebook - This will grant the permissions to post or read from your Page
* You can disable the SCLogin module at this point if you don't want normal users to authenticate with social networks

I hope that helps give you a quick overview, but if you get stuck anywhere else, just let us know!

Thanks,
Alex
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Alex, I definitely appreciate the prompt and quick reply. I've already set everything up and just waiting to test drive it now because I'm without an SSL certificate on that domain (building the site for my business partner who has the ownership permissions/access to the domain/hosting). Until I get that going, I assume I cannot start really using it. But I did get the autotune function completed and everything checks out on the back end it seems. I'll definitely reach out if I hit any road blocks in the future. Thanks again for all of your help.
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No problem for the help, it's what we're here for.

Just an FYI.. we use CloudFlare for our SSL. The free plan there is super simple to setup, you basically switch your DNS records over to them. Once that's done, you can setup SSL on your site, for free. There's no need to install SSL certificates on your server or deal with your hosting company. Cloudflare has a lot of other advantages, like a built-in CDN that are nice to haves as well.

We have the paid plan, which has some additional security features, but may not be necessary for your site.

Either way, thought I'd point an easy/quick way to add SSL to your site without too much work. If you need anything else, just let us know.

Finally, if you haven't already, please consider leaving a rating and review for JFBConnect, or our support, on the Joomla Extension Directory. It's certainly not required, but very appreciated:
extensions.joomla.org/extensions/extensi...l-display/jfbconnect

Thanks,
Alex
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I'll check it out. Thanks again! And I will definitely put in a review... Probably a more thorough one when I actually get to using it. Customer Service/Support: 15/10 stars. Yep, you exceed the scale. You guys are on point. Thanks for all of your help!
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