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10 years 8 months ago - 10 years 8 months ago #35735 by alanay
Hello,
i have changed the message that i used before which was in english and replaced it with a message in Arabic ..
after clicking the save button the charecters would change and get replaced by "???????"

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10 years 8 months ago #35749 by alzander
Alaa,
The tables that JFBConnect creates in your database use the MySQL default character set configured for MySQL on your server. It seems like that is not UTF8, and your tables are probably using the latin character set.

You'd need to update the #__jfbconnect_config table to use the UTF8 character set in order to save those values with the extended character set. If you need help doing so, we can give you more information on how to do so. There are also tools such as "Akeeba Admin Tools" which can update the collation of your entire database.

Finally, please note that that feature is no longer recommended to be used due to changes in Facebook's terms of service. In the next release, v5.1, the ability to automatically post on registration / login is actually being removed. If you want to promote your site through posting to user's walls as they interact with your site, you should move to using Open Graph Actions. The next release will have more types of support for these types of actions as well.

I hope that helps explain,
Alex
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10 years 8 months ago #35750 by alanay
Thanks..
its great to know this as i am already planning to start using open graph ..
i am waiting for jfbconnect 5.1 today :D right ? or its getting delayed?
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10 years 8 months ago #35765 by alzander
It's being released right now. It should be in the "My Downloads" area in about an hour and ready to install. We're in the process of updating the documentation for the new release as well.

I hope that helps,
Alex
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10 years 8 months ago #35774 by alanay
Thanks.. i have downloaded and installed it.. and all seems to be great ..
trying to understand open graph and guess i can do it as there are many topics about it..
Thanks for the great work.
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10 years 8 months ago #35778 by alzander
Alaa,
We'll be updating the Open Graph Documentation as well as uploading a few videos over the next few days to really show how Open Graph Actions work and how to best set them up. The documentation on line right now is a little out of date, but that should all be fixed by the end of the week with vastly improved documentation and step-by-step videos.

I hope that helps, but if you start sooner and run into any issues, just let us know!

Thanks,
Alex
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10 years 7 months ago #35811 by johver
i've update the JFBConnect to 5.1 but it seems that i can't see anything on the status / wall tab.... whats wrong? earlier if i logged in at my joomla there was an post on my facebook wall but now it doesn't work anymore done autotune for three times and no errors on it....

could you please help me with this?

best regards,
johan verweij
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10 years 7 months ago #35820 by alzander
Johan,
The feature to automatically post on registration and login has been removed in v5.1. In v5.0, we had a note at the top of that configuration section noting that it was no longer recommended and actually violated Facebook's recent Policy updates.

We recommend moving to using Open Graph Actions to post 'actions' that users are taking on your site (like reading, commenting, voting, etc) or the new Action buttons which a user can click, enter a message, tag friends, and add a location too. Those Open Graph Actions are what Facebook wants user's to use as they have more social context and the user is aware of them being made.

I hope that helps explain,
Alex
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10 years 7 months ago #35837 by alanay
great .. guess i'll have to wait ..
and i also would like to report several bugs.. dont know if this is the right way to report them

1- in the component page.. clicking the setup google app tutorials is showing a forbidden page.
2- SCLogin module .. clicking hide user image would show the image and there is no way to hide them but using display: none in css

.sclogin #scprofile-pic, .sclogin .sclogin-greeting {
display: none;
}
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10 years 7 months ago #35840 by alzander
Thanks for letting us know about those issues. Both links for "Where do I get this" should be fixed now.

For the avatar, that's a bug that will be fixed soon. The CSS you included will hide it, or you can follow the quick instruction in this post to modify the SCLogin module to not display the avatar at all.

Hope that helps,
Alex
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