Spirix Posted December 12, 2008 Share Posted December 12, 2008 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spirix Posted December 12, 2008 Author Share Posted December 12, 2008 Here is a demo of it working:http://www.somethingtoputhere.com/therunaround/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jυra Posted December 12, 2008 Share Posted December 12, 2008 I have accounts at those various OpenID supporting sites, but not Facebook. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter.B Posted December 12, 2008 Share Posted December 12, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BryanH Posted December 12, 2008 Share Posted December 12, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spirix Posted December 13, 2008 Author Share Posted December 13, 2008 You can also invite your friends too! :wub: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikki Posted December 13, 2008 Share Posted December 13, 2008 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 :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dziner Posted December 13, 2008 Share Posted December 13, 2008 They are.PB3 is using the new OpenID program Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter.B Posted December 13, 2008 Share Posted December 13, 2008 I suppose that wouldn't be too hard using the OpenID plugin as a guide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince G. Posted December 13, 2008 Share Posted December 13, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mat Barrie Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince G. Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benepsilon Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 I'm all for an fbConnect module... ! This is something I have been considering building myself for a long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince G. Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mat Barrie Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 [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). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince G. Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 Yea i know the API exists for a while now, I once made an application for FB. But the connect thing is fairly new. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted December 15, 2008 Share Posted December 15, 2008 We'd like to support as many login methods as possible, so we'll keep this in mind for future releases :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spirix Posted December 17, 2008 Author Share Posted December 17, 2008 [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: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimi Wikman Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 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 :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfarber Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BryanH Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 Awesome! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spirix Posted December 24, 2008 Author Share Posted December 24, 2008 [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 :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimi Wikman Posted December 25, 2008 Share Posted December 25, 2008 [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 ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BryanH Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 vB already has a plugin, damn!! http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=198499 We gotta get on this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr. Jekyll Posted December 31, 2008 Share Posted December 31, 2008 [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! ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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