[Released] JFBC 2.1 - CB Integration and Registration Page

A test release of JFBConnect v2.1 was released today. This version adds Community Builder support (similar to JomSocial support) along with a new registration form for users to select a current Joomla user to connect to, or to quickly create a new user on their own. You can see the new 2.1Test version in your downloads area of CMS Market.

This is a test version and should not be used on a production site until you are confident that it will work in your environment (ie. Test on a development site first, or wait for a more stable version)

To test this functionality, the JFBConnect demo site has had all previous users deleted so that you can see the new registration process. Both JomSocial and Community Builder are installed on the site to allow you to see both community components populated with the Facebook Profile information.

JFBConnect Demo Site

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While I said I wouldn't be monitoring this thread, I guess I lied. Great questions, and feedback/questions about implementation here work. Bug reports though should have their own thread.

Anyways...

not to be a buzzkill, but doesn't that kind of take away the FB connect aspect of it?
I mean you're essentially forcing registration.
Not that I mind it at all, but it kind of defeats the purpose, doesn't it?

No. We aren't forcing registration, we leave that up to you. There is an option in JFBConnect to 'Create New Users'. While that name will probably be updated (cause it's sort of confusing), if it's set to no, then your users will still have an account created for them.. but will not have a Joomla-specific password or username.. their username defaults to fb_(their FB user id) and the ONLY way to log into your site using that account is to do it through their Facebook credentials.

In this case though, there's no way to get the users email address since we still can't get it from Facebook, but depending on your needs, this may be the right path for you. Integration to JomSocial and CB works just like normal, and you can always redirect them on registration to their profile page to update their email address.

Unfortunately, we just found a bug with this mode. If you want to test, please uncomment (remove the #) the 2 require_once lines in the /components/com_jfbconnect/controller.php file at lines 20, 21. It will be fixed in the next release!

Thanks for your feedback on the CB portion of the component. The integration portion was written before we added the new registration form. I'd assume we could now check the user-confirmation setting in CB and send the email (for the user to confirm). We can also just force it to auto-authorize them. Will likely make it an option.

What does the "Syncrhonize users" function do, do you know? We can investigate more, but I'm not readily familiar with that aspect of CB.

The login module has quite a few fixes we need to implement, and those links is on the list. The other is to break it up more to allow for much easier template overrides in the future.

Thanks for the help. If you would, when responding to this (or if you find other bugs).. start a new post. It's impossible to track issues in here as there's no cohesive way to see what's being discussed and status.

We're hoping to get a new release out this week. Dont think it will be the stable release due to the amount of minor, yet required fixes. We'll actually start advertising it more at that point to get more testers in and hopefully get a stable release out quickly thereafter.