3rd-Party Subscription Integration

Tim,
Integration is a wide open question, so I'll try to answer, but you can follow up with any other questions you may have. Our social profile plugins are used to actually import the user's LinkedIn profile data into the 3rd party extensions.

At it's simplest though, you may just want to add the "Login with LinkedIn" button to other forms, like we've done with AkeebaSubs on this site. We *don't* import any profile data into AkeebaSubs, we just show the login button on those pages for easier access.

If the Login button is all you're looking for, you can create template overrides for any of the AkeebaSubs or BreezingForms files that you want and then add our login button with the following code:You can use other login button images if you want, or even a text link, but the above will use the SCLogin's LinkedIn blue button.

I hope that helps get you started, but if you have more information on what 'integration' you're looking for, we'll gladly help you do it however we can.

Thanks,
Alex

Tim,
To import that information, you'd need to create a new Social Profile plugin. It's likely we'll create one for AkeebaSubs later this year, but it won't be for at least a few weeks, and likely not for a few months.

The process for creating a social profile plugin is pretty straight-forward. If you don't need avatars, it's even simpler. I'd start by looking at the Kunena social profile plugin, as it's a good, simple, example. Basically, you need to do the following:
* Update the "getProfileFields" function which will show the fields in the mapping section of the profiles area.
* Update the saveProfile function to properly save the data imported from your mappings in the profiles area.
* You can use the createUser function if you have to do something special when the user registers, like creating them in a special table.

Obviously, it'd be best to have a developer implement this stuff, but the profile plugins are generally less than 100 lines of code. If you run into issues and have questions though, just let us know.

I hope that helps,
Alex

Tim,
Glad that helped spawn some ideas. For Akeebasubs importing data from Joomla, that's definitely true. However, if you want to automatically import information like City and State, that's something you'd need a plugin for since Joomla doesn't have anywhere to store that data.

One other thing I forgot to mention is that the profile plugins are good for getting data during registration or login. There are other ways to dynamically get profile data while the user is perusing your site. For instance, with a contact form, you may not want to fetch the user's City during registration, but if they try to contact you, you can get it during that page load and pre-fill it for them. If you are interested in that, it's just a few lines of code to get that data, but of course you'll have to do something with it in the other extensions.

Either way, best of luck and let us know what you come up with.

Thanks,
Aelx

Tim,
My guess is that you downloaded the Joomla 3.x package which didn't have all of the profile plugins included. The Kunena plugin was left out because we hadn't fully tested that plugin with Joomla 3.0 yet. There's no 3.x version of the plugin available yet, but the 2.5 is the exact same except for some minor differences in the XML file.

You can easily download the 2.5 version, or any of the other social profile plugins, from the link below though:
www.sourcecoast.com/index.php?option=com_ars&view=release&id=6

I hope that helps, but if you have any questions, let me know.

Thanks,
Alex