Facebook Connect

[Breaking Legs]

Can someone explain how this works?

I seen it on registration page here, just wondering how it works?

[Alex K.]

Essentially, it lets people create an account and sign in by just using their Facebook account. It's much simpler and easier for most users, and thus generally increases activity a lot.

[Breaking Legs]

Essentially, it lets people create an account and sign in by just using their Facebook account. It's much simpler and easier for most users, and thus generally increases activity a lot.

So if its a newuser, they can just click connect and their details will work?

So it has no use as such for current members?

Where is this mod, searched on here but no luck.

[bfarber]

Facebook connect is part of IPB. It's not a mod, it's included with IPB itself.

It allows any user who has a facebook login to login to your site without going through the registration process. If you are already a user, you can still link your existing forum account to a facebook account (go ahead and login using Facebook to see how it works).

If you need help setting it up on your site, feel free to submit a ticket.

[Brett B]

What happens as far as created a physical account on the board? How are things like username, display name, password, etc. handled? Is the user prompted for these things when using FBC?

[bfarber]

No. It is against Facebook TOS to prompt the user for that info as I recall.

The data that Facebook makes available is used when creating the account.