CB Facebook Connect Plugin 1.0 RC3 and CB Twitter Connect 1.0 RC2 Released

Written by Nick A.

CB Documentation subscribers can now download the CB Facebook Connect plugin 1.0 RC3 and CB Twitter plugin 1.0 RC2. Both new packages are available in the subscriber download area and can be quickly accessed by looking at your Doc-Subs tab in your Joomlapolis profile. The new versions correct some minor issues found and also add the handling of email address synchronization.

Specifically, the CB Facebook Connect 1.0 RC3 release now takes advantage of the updated Facebook API in order to synchronize the Facebook user's primary email address with the CB plugin (once Facebook user approves). This improvement will cause all newly created users to have a valid and usable user email address. This improvement fixes various issues with certain newsletter components attempting and failing to validate previously provided dummy email addresses. We have also listed this plugin on the Joomla extension directory (JED), so feel free to vote and review. Please continue posting any support issues regarding this plugin in the relevant forum.

The CB Twitter 1.0 RC2 release also improves upon previous email address synchronization handling. The Twitter API does not provide the Twitter user's email address so a usable email address is not possible without further user intervention. The new code will now produce a valid and unique (although fake) email address in the form of twitter_XXXXXX at invalid.com. This way newsletter components will be able to succeed in their validation functions and the CB profile editing process will identify this specific email address form as invalid and force the user to change it. This plugin is also listed on JED and can be discussed in its dedicated forum.

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