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Posted December 12, 200816 yr Hello, Since IPB3 is using the new OpenID program, I would like to suggest that IPS maybe use Facebook Connect as well. Millions of people use Facebook and the amount of people that would be able to register using FB Connect FAR outnumbers those using Open IDhttp://developers.facebook.com/connect.php This would certainly be a feature that could set IPB apart from it's competition. It can also probably be set up so that new users have their profile picture as their avatar! -Tom
December 12, 200816 yr Author Here is a demo of it working:http://www.somethingtoputhere.com/therunaround/
December 12, 200816 yr This is actually quite a good idea. No offense intended with the surprised comment, but the majority of ideas usually seem to be aimed to benefit one person#s specific "wants" for their forums whereas this one could actually be a very useful addition. The example site linked in the first post also interacts with Facebook on a larger scale, but just the ability to be able to invite your friends from Facebook to the forum would be a nice addition as well as the login ability. So maybe it doesn't have to be incuded in the core functionality, but it would definitely be a nice additional login module if it was done well.
December 12, 200816 yr This would be pretty darn cool. The idea being you could register a new account on an IPB using your facebook info. And perhaps linking an existing account with your facebook profile.
December 13, 200816 yr Although this isn't supported now, IPB does support log in plugins, so a modder could create a new login plugin to handle Facebook Connect. This is all the OpenID part is, too :)
December 13, 200816 yr Just a note, From reading the Facebook Connect API documentation there is no way for accessing the email address for the facebook account, so if you would like to compare between the facebook account email and the members forum email (for checking if he exists, email taken etc...) you can't. So unless there will be another way of doing this i am not sure what will be best approach for such a thing. Maybe someone will trow in a few ideas.
December 14, 200816 yr It's the other way around, Vadim. You (the application) are meant to provide Facebook's API with the email you want to register (see connect.registerUsers function) so the initial registration provides the ability to do that. Also, you can use Proxied Emails.
December 14, 200816 yr I know, I just wanted to add the option to automatically login to the forum if your logged into facebook. The proxied email wouldn't help much if i knew the way it was hashes i could compare between that email and the members email. Still reading about the facebook API stuff. Maybe i don't want to register the member but just log him in with his FB profile details. i could do that if i had his email since everything is compared and authenticated via email. Like i said i am still reading and learning that API facebook thing.
December 14, 200816 yr I'm all for an fbConnect module... ! This is something I have been considering building myself for a long time.
December 14, 200816 yr The Facebook connect feature was introduced several weeks ago, Didn't it?I'm all for an fbConnect module... ! This is something I have been considering building myself for a long time.
December 14, 200816 yr [quote name='Vadim' post='1776278' date='Dec 14 2008, 11:49 PM']The Facebook connect feature was introduced several weeks ago, Didn't it? About 2 weeks ago. But the API has existed for quite a long time (the ability to temporarily log a user in has existed for a while so that desktop applications like Trillian can do it).
December 14, 200816 yr Yea i know the API exists for a while now, I once made an application for FB. But the connect thing is fairly new.
December 15, 200816 yr We'd like to support as many login methods as possible, so we'll keep this in mind for future releases :)
December 17, 200816 yr Author [quote name='Josh' post='1776458' date='Dec 15 2008, 10:03 AM']We'd like to support as many login methods as possible, so we'll keep this in mind for future releases :) Awesome! Thanks! :wub:
December 23, 200816 yr This will be a really nice addition to an already great software. I intend to try to implement this throughout my website (including IPB) next year :)
December 23, 200816 yr I'm just going to state for the record that on a personal level, I'd love to get more integration with third party software. That includes additional login methods and integration with larger software packages like Drupal and Wordpress. I'm considering looking into them (independently/not here at work) later this coming year.
December 24, 200816 yr Author [quote name='bfarber' post='1777690' date='Dec 23 2008, 09:23 AM']I'm just going to state for the record that on a personal level, I'd love to get more integration with third party software. That includes additional login methods and integration with larger software packages like Drupal and Wordpress. I'm considering looking into them (independently/not here at work) later this coming year. Would gladly pay for it too :)
December 25, 200816 yr [quote name='bfarber' post='1777690' date='Dec 23 2008, 03:23 PM']I'm just going to state for the record that on a personal level, I'd love to get more integration with third party software. That includes additional login methods and integration with larger software packages like Drupal and Wordpress. I'm considering looking into them (independently/not here at work) later this coming year. Howl if you need help, a muse or just plain nagging and I'll be there ;)
December 29, 200816 yr vB already has a plugin, damn!! http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=198499 We gotta get on this!
December 31, 200816 yr [quote name='bfarber' post='1777690' date='Dec 23 2008, 03:23 PM']I'd love to get more integration with third party software. That includes additional login methods and integration with larger software packages like Drupal and Wordpress.. Please, do not forget Joomla! ;)
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