JFBConnect vs. Default Jomsocial 2.2 Facebook Integration

As I've been told many times, there are no stupid questions.. and when it comes to prospective users, that's doubly true

To start, JomSocial's Facebook integration may be all you need, and we'd honestly recommend you start with it. It will let user's easily sign up to your site, but that's about where it ends. JFBConnect adds the ability to import the user's Facebook profile into JomSocial automatically, so that you can have their college, employer, favorite books or music, and other types of information so that you can get that information without additional forms for the user.

Additional features during registration are automatic username generation which means that JFBConnect will create the Joomla username for the user automatically so they don't see any forms during registration. Generally, this isn't as great for a 'social' site, but is great for an ecommerce site or other place where you just want user's to register immediately.

A little further along with registration and logging in, JFBConnect has the ability to post to the user's wall when they register or login with a link back to your site. This is great to automatically promote your site to your new user's friends.

Beyond registration, and into territory that JomSocial doesn't venture, we have all the social widgets including Like buttons, Comment widgets, Fan boxes, etc. These all help to tie your site into Facebook and get more cross-communication going, which again, helps promote your site by more posts to user's wall. Additionally, we fully support the Open Graph protocol which lets you (easily) describe your page to Facebook. Similar to standard meta tags, you can set the title, description, image and extra information about your page that will show up in a user's wall when posting there.

For easy-integration, we have a content plugin which can automatically insert the Like or Comment box into all your content/articles so you don't have to deal with it.

So, that's a lot of the 'big' features we have now. Our 4.0 release is coming up in July, which will have a handful of really nifty features we can't wait to start promoting, but not quite yet

Again, we'd recommend trying JomSocial's integration.. then, if you think it's not right for you, try JFBConnect. We even have the ability to import your existing Facebook/Joomla connections, so you won't loose anything when you do. We also have a 30-day money back guarantee, so no worries there.

For all the features (though still some things are missing), see our features page and click around a bit
www.sourcecoast.com/jfbconnect/features

Hope this all helps, and should you need anything else, let us know!
Alex

Yes, in the latest 3.4 release, we added the ability for user's to select their profile type. The admin can also select a default profile type for all Facebook user's if they don't want the user to select it (but don't want them to have all fields). 3.4 also added the option to show the "Accept Terms" checkbox field to the registration process.

We haven't updated our demo site in a while (in the process), so there's not a way to test the profile selection right now, but I've attached a screenshot of what it looks like now.

Hope that helps, and let us know if you have any other questions,
Alex

Nope, unfortunately, that's not what it is at all

JFBConnect has a 'one-click' registration mode where when the user signs in through Facebook, it creates their Joomla account for them. The cusomizeable username generation lets you select from a few different formats to pick the username.. on our site, we're currently using the first 3 letters of the user's first and last name from Facebook.. which is why your username here is "angber". It generates some user-friendly (and sometimes amusing) usernames, and is better than a more computerized fb_12345 (which was the default before).

Hope that helps explain, and we hope you choose to subscribe. Should you have any other questions first though, just let us know!
Alex

It likely won't integrate perfectly with their registration flows, but should work with JPayPlans overall. JFBConnect creates a standard Joomla user, which any extension sees like any other Joomla user, so upgrades should work just fine after they're registered.

As for the initial registration flow, you can easily set the new user redirection (vs a separate returning user redirection) and depending on how JPayPlans works, you should be able to simply redirect new users to the "Select a subscription" page. Can't guarantee it will be that easy, but as you've seen, we have great support and will do what we can to get you going if not.

Thanks,
Alex

1) Facebook uses many different methods to determine suggested friends.. email contacts (if you've given access to your account) and common friends of friends are the most common.

2) Our product doesn't do friend recommendations automatically, but we include a friend invitation module which allows a user to easily invite their friends to your site.

Hope that helps,
Alex