facebook invite

The Invite module let's anyone who's logged into Facebook invite their friends, regardless of whether they're logged into your site. There's some minor updates coming to the Invite module, which will improve some of the flow shortly, because now, there are times when the user has to be logged into your site.. just so you know.

As for improvements, our feature matrix at the link below should describe the benefits best. Also, check out our reviews on the JED, of which many talk about how they like our system over JomSocial's. In general though, here's some key points:
* 1-click registration (no registration forms), if you want to enable that
* Post to Facebook wall on registration or login
* Customizeable profile import into JomSocial - you can select fields from Facebook that will be 'mapped' to a user's profile, so they don't have to fill out bio, interests, location, etc
* More social modules (Comments, Like, Activity Stream, Invite)
* It works

Feature comparison of JFBConnect to other Facebook extensions:
sourcecoast.com/jfbconnect/joomla-facebook-feature-matrix

JED listing:
extensions.joomla.org/extensions/social-...ook-integration/7215

Hope this helps, and good luck!

1) There is a German language file included for the strings that JFBConnect outputs. However, there's actually only about 20 strings we use, so it's not overly burdensome if you need to change anything. As for the social plugins (Comments, Like, etc), we instruct Facebook to translate those based on the language of your site, so you shouldn't have any issue with those either.

2) Facebook determines how many people a user can invite. This is strictly up to them, and is based on many factors including the user sending the invites, how many have been sent in the past, what's normal for the application, how many friends they have, etc. This is all done to prevent using the invitation logic to spam other Facebook users. We've seen it as low as 20 and as high as about 100 before. However, there's absolutely nothing we can do to increase this number. It does reset after some period (1 day or so), so you can invite many people, but just not all at once (again.. spam).

Hope that helps, and good luck!

We haven't used the InviteX extension specifically, but our knowledge of it is that it's an email inviter and doesn't use Facebook directly to perform the invitations. You specify email addresses, and maybe it can import friends from Facebook, but can't really tell. Either way, the invitations don't look to be sent through Facebook's system.

The JFBCInvite module actually puts invitation requests into the user's notification area of their profile. This is done through Facebook's API, which they do limit however they want.

Hope that makes sense as to the differences. Again, haven't used InviteX, so if we're missing something, let us know.

Thanks!

No worries. That's interesting to know, and thanks for pointing it out. We'll have to investigate further, but for now, our invite module is limited by Facebook.

Thanks for the feedback!

Oliver, no the updates for the Invite module haven't been implemented yet. However, we can easily give you a minor code change to show the Invite module to any Facebook user, not just ones that have approved your application. If you want, please post a question in the support area. This thread is already getting long, and somewhat unrelated. We should be able to help you out with your request pretty easily though.

Thanks!