Away for a while, Facebook & Twitter questions
krileon
Twitter doesn't have @Anywhere API to display a feed of tweets. Suppose it could be done with jQuery and an AJAX call, but not implementing it without official API from twitter, sorry.I am experimenting with some options now, nothing satisfactory yet...some plugins let you tweet and dont disply tweets, and then some display tweets but dont let you tweet.
CB Connect will allow you to map Facebook data to CB fields on new registrations through Facebook.The Facebook integration is even more confusing...I want users to be able to pull IN content from Facebook as well and display it to their visitors.
CB Connect doesn't pull their images except for profile picture, but it certainly can prepare the Facebook API to allow you to do so in your own plugin. Simply adjust the permissions as seen in CB Connect configuration for Facebook and you can request access to whatever you want.as its nearly impossible to tear our clients away from Facebook and get them to recreate their image galleries over here...and why should they do the work twice anyways.
Then develop it and give back to the community.I havent found anything that does this easily yet.
All code suggestions are welcome (in the form of patches for existing projects). Kyle (Krileon)
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Please do not confuse FB Connect (FBC) with CB Connect as it's a chopped down version that only provides login/registration (no field mapping, etc..). Helps cut down on confusing other users reading the thread.Our registration process is quite complex and not all profile types are free either, so I am reluctant to let folks just connect willy nilly using their Twit and FB creds. as last time I checked into FB Connect it wasnt playing nicely with CBsubs.
CB Connect works perfectly fine with CBSubs. Of course plans shown at registration will have no affect as there is no registration for those users, it's 1 click login. If your site requires a subscription to login then they'd be present with a page to select a plan. This is all seen and tested as working on our CBSubs demo site.
CB Connect can only map what the connect site gives. For example Twitter doesn't give the same information that Facebook does and Google Friend Connect gives nearly nothing but name and profile picture.I need to be able to gather certain info from the registration form in order to sort the users into the proper lists and display their profiles on other areas of the site.
CB Connect lets you specify a login and registration redirect URL. So for example after registration you could send them to profile edit.Usually this is done at the time of account creation. I suppose it could be reworked to be done at leisure by the user after they create a fb connected account, but I fear there will be a huge gap in missing data fields unless I force them to do it at the time of registration.
If users login with an existing account they will see a "Link" button allowing them to link the two accounts together.I want to give the existing users integration options but I dont want them to have to create new accounts. Its impossible to get these people to do anything in a hurry.
Please keep in mind field mapping only happens for new registrations through the connect sites. Subsequent logins or using the "Link" feature will not map their fields.
Kyle (Krileon)
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