existing functionalities on portal broken after installing JFBConnect

1) I'm unsure what's happening here. Can you try disabling the JFBCSystem plugin, temporarily, to see if the videos properly appear? The JFBCSystem plugin enables all of our functionality, and is a good way to test if JFBConnect is the cause of a problem or not.

2/3) Please go into the JFBConnect -> Configuration area and enable the "Always Parse Tags" setting. That may help the problem. In general, if you have other Facebook features on the site, you should be able to leave them intact but you should *not* be re-including the Facebook Javascript library on the page. JFBConnect adds the Facebook Javascript library and initializes it in a specific manner to enable all of our features. If you have other inclusions of the library, there will be conflicts and it can cause multiple different issues.

I hope that helps, but if you still have issues, please let me know a specific URL and any steps we need to take to recreate the issues so we can investigate further.

Thanks,
Alex

The performance impact would be on the order of milli-seconds *after* the whole page has loaded. In most cases, it's imperceptible to the user. The impact would also *only* be on the pages that *don't* have any Facebook features. On the ones with Facebook features, we have to parse the tags. That setting simply skips a little bit of code on pages that we know don't have any Facebook features.

So, in short, I wouldn't worry about that at all.

As for the video, if the JFBCSystem plugin is disabled and the videos still don't work, I'm not sure JFBConnect is related at all. We'll gladly take a look. As mentioned though, when that plugin is disabled, JFBConnect is completely disabled. Perhaps the SCLogin module is causing some sort of problem on the page, but not sure. We'll gladly take a look.

Thanks,
Alex

Davis,
With your previous code of:That was performing the same task and being parsed after the page was loaded as well. There shouldn't be any difference in what's being done. Your code probably had a Facebook Javascript include for a file loaded called sdk.js. That Javascript shouldn't be included in the page anymore as JFBConnect is including it already. Beyond that, your code is not any different than it was before.

As for the video, I'm a bit stumped there as well. If you come up with anything or narrow things down further, let me know and we'll gladly help investigate further.

For the comments, there's a few things you could do. Simply replace your comment code with the JFBConnect comment module (create an SCSocial Widget as Facebook -> Comments) or, in your page, where you have the comment box tag already, simply replace that with:Either way though, Facebook won't render the comment box until the page has loaded. That's simply how their Javascript work. It waits for the page to be fully ready, then scans for Facebook tags and replaces them. No way around that.

I hope that helps,
Alex

-On the video issue, the DJ-Classifieds developer was able to resolve this (yet to glean from him what the problem was)

Awesome! Glad to hear you got it going and especially glad that it wasn't something on our end (I hope)

- FB buttons & comments module -I assume either way both items get loaded after the page is rendered, so virtually the same effect.
Since, At the moment I have both working, Is it okay to leave it as is? I would rather not hassle myself with additional work of creating SCSocial Widget etc

Yup, either way would have the same effect. Our Easy Tags and SCSocial Widget are meant to make it easier to configure things if they're not already setup. If they are already setup, then there's no point to break it if it works. The only thing to note again is to make sure you aren't re-including the Facebook Javascript library on those pages. That code comes with the configuration tools from Facebook.. all you need is the <div class='fb-like'..></div> code on the page, not the script tags.

Lastly, I have some extensions, which used to stream facebook & g+ albums to my site.

It depends on how they work.. if they are fetching the information in the background, caching it (so it doesn't have to communicate with Facebook or Google on each page load), and then only rendering the cached data to the page, they should work without conflicting with JFBConnect.

With that said, JFBConnect does have the "Channels" feature where you can show the feed from a Facebook Page or Group, Twitter Stream or LinkedIn Company Page on your site. It follows the guidelines above regarding caching to make sure there's a minimal performance impact as well. You can see an example below in the SC Social Stream on this page.

If there was something more specific you were looking to import from Google or Facebook (you mention albums), let me know. We're always looking to add more Channels to our current offerings.

Thanks,
Alex