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JFacebook Registration, Integration & Display Popular ComponentModulePlugin

Easy Facebook Integration and Registration Package for Joomla.

** New com_jfacebook for Registration Social Plugin. To be used specifically for a custom username. **

JFacebook has been released for Joomla!2.5 for Facebook Registration Functionality

HIGLIGHTS:
NEW: Add Facebook Like & Facebook Comments to Every Page
Facebook Registration Plugin
Facebook One Click Single Sign On
Username Scheme Selection based of Facebook Creds
Post to Facebook on Registration
Facebook OpenGraph configuration
Facebook Like Button
Facebook Like Box
Facebook Recommendations
Facebook Activity Stream
Facebook Comments

Properly configure your Facebook OpenGraph meta tags to make sure your user's Facebook Likes and Comments SHOW UP PROPERLY on their Facebook Profile and in their Facebook Feeds. Make sure your pages are Integrated Properly into the OpenGraph.

Post directly to the Facebook user's Profile and News Feed when they register on your site using their Facebook credentials.

For those Joomla Administrators who want to add the ability for users to login to their sites with Facebook credentials and provide for registration with their Facebook credentials. Do this in as little as 5 MINUTES!

You can configure the system to ask for specific Facebook user permissions above and beyond the default if you wan't or need more information.

The most important thing is that once installed you have access to "Extensible Facebook Mark Up Language" (XFBML) social plugins. That mean you can just drop the following tag pairs into a custom module or article:

fb:like (Facebook Like Button)
fb:comments (Add Facebook Comments to Any Page)
fb:recommendations (a summary of Facebook Likes for your domain )
fb:recommendations (a summary of Facebook Likes for your domain )
fb:activity (Facebook Activity Feed for another Page)
fb:live-stream (Facebook users can share activiy comments in Realtime for your Facebook App)
fb:facepile (Facebook users friends photos)

Choose your Redirection after Facebook Login & Facebook Logout
For Developers:

With JFacebook you have direct access to a nice Facebook PHP API singleton


Add custom Facebook Javascript (FB object) to the xfbml/javascript folder and it will be automatically loaded into your pages. Perfect for Facebook Tabs and Facebook Canvas Iframe Apps.

Language Support

JFacebook checks your currently loaded language and attempts to load that version of the Facebook Javascript SDK to parse the elements in your user's language!

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2012-12-16
Reviews: 5
The installation was smooth, configuration intuitive. Had a question about translation and got immediate feedback from the developer.

Overall, it does what it says and I find it a must have extension for joomla 2.5.
2012-07-12
Reviews: 1
This plugin does everything it states and more.

The support is quick and helpful in fact the support is absolutely fantastic. A feature we needed didn't exist so they developed it over night at no extra fee.

This genuinely a fantastic plugin with perfect support.

Thanks Cameron.
2012-03-09
Reviews: 4
I am rating excellent because of the customer service. MMI issued a full refund without questions when I was unable to use the extension. I replaced it with a different product - that had the exact same problem. Turned out to be a conflict in the Gavick template. Gavick has its own Facebook login plugin that is quirky. In the template settings, you have to turn off all social buttons in addition to turning off the Gavick login.

Kudos for quick and courteous customer service. I would use MMI again...
2011-11-30
Reviews: 1
This extension has been superb for me as it has eliminated the hassle my users of site would need to do, with this Facebook connect my users can simply connect without needing to register and fill more details. The support also received has been fantastic and very helpful. Thanks again for the help and this great extension.
2011-07-05
Reviews: 4
This extension does exactly what it is supposed to do.
I had some trouble setting it up because I had already loaded Facebook sdk with another plugin.
Cameron took the initiative to set it up for me and fix the conflicts.
Thank you Cameron. Keep up the good work.
2011-06-20
Reviews: 1
I have This on more then one site and like it!!!

If a problem comes, the support is great and help nomatter What the problem is. Mine eas NOT with the extension but with another extension and support found the problem and fixed it fast.

Only Best best for me, and This is it!
2011-04-21
Reviews: 1
MMI did an incredible job with this product. It's very simple but really powerful when combined with your own code. I used JUMI for modular placement and manipulation, works great! I have connected with facebook comments, facebook profile-pic, facebook like and facebook recommendations. All work great!!!

Nice job Cam.
2011-04-15
Reviews: 1
I strongly recommend Jfacebook. Cameron is super helpful and replies fast on any question you might have. Five stars from me!
2011-04-12
Reviews: 1
JFacebook is very useful extension to allow your visitors log in via their FB accounts. I've even bought another module - JFacebook VirtueMart login for my customers. Both extensions do their job well and are definitely worth of each penny!
The installation was without problems. I've had a little troubles to set a language (I use on my web) inside the login form. The support (Cameron) responded very quicky and within couple of hours everything was set up and worked just WONDERFULLY!
Owner's reply

Hi Coccos,
Thanks so much for the review. JFacebook is evolving with the needs of its users, and the VirtueMart module is one such example.
Good Luck with your endeavors.

Cameron @ MMI

2011-03-28
Reviews: 3
JFacebook couldn't have made it any easier. installation was a breeze. Their product didn't have much fault. Any problems I had with customising to suit my site, their forum response was fast!
Best facebook product, as I've tried probably all the facebook integration products. a fully packaged worthwhile investment.
2011-03-05
Reviews: 1
Immediately after installing extension I had problems. After fighting with it for 30 minutes I opened a support ticket for help. Within 10 minutes I received a reply and assistance from Cameron. Turns out the problem was with my hosting and not the extension.. This is where it gets great.. Instead of telling me its my problem and sending me on my way, Cameron stayed with me to ensure I got it all up and running. And I do believe my provider would not have figured it out either if it wasn't for Camerons input. Thank you for a top notch Ext and all your help!!! AAA plus
Ken
2011-03-03
Reviews: 4
Very professional result from using this to provide Facebook registration and connectivity.

Terrific and responsive support.
2011-02-03
Reviews: 11
This extension does everything promised. I am not an advanced coding person and Cameron took the time to help me get this working and even showed me how to use some added Facebook features which I didn't even realize I could us. Five Stars without hesitation.
2011-02-03
Reviews: 1
I am really glad I decided to install this extension on my website, because it makes is much easier to integrate it with Facebook and my circle of friends. I followed the instructions provided on the support website, asked them a couple of questions, which Cameron replied promptly and that was it. I could get "likes" and new user registrations in a matter of minutes. Thanks a lot for creating this extension!
2011-01-30
Reviews: 1
I installed this package on our website and it took less than 10min. and that included the time it took to create a developers account on facebook. The documentation on the developer's website is thorough and I had absolutely no issues whatsoever. I am extremely pleased! Great job.
2011-01-13
Reviews: 2
Had a bit of troubles on the site with this ext. but developer solved them all. Support is worth the price!
Owner's reply

Hi Gorazd,

I was happy to help. Doing so let me view an issue that may come up in the future with some server configurations and the use of curl which is at the heart of the PHP SDK on Github.

Cheers and good luck with the site!

Cameron @ MMI

2011-01-12
Reviews: 1
After having some troubles installing (I had an older version, why it wasnt working), JFacebook now works perfectly.

The support is second to none and is *very* fast. Cameron was extremely helpful in which he went out of his way to personally get JFacebook working on my website.

I would highly recommend this product to anyone needing a facebook login (and more) on their Joomla site.

Thanks Cameron!
Owner's reply

That's Great pierre23.

I was happy to be of assistance, it was no problem at all.

All the best,

Cameron @ MMI

2010-12-29
Reviews: 5
It is simply inconceivable to me that there can be as many as eight prior, presumably legitimate reviews without any mention of the fact that this extension works by writing the Facebook User’s *email address* into the Joomla username field. Let me repeat this: When a Facebook member uses this extension to log into your Joomla site, his or her **full email address** becomes his or her Joomla site username!!?

When I questioned the developer about this obviously gross limitation, his response was to simply suggest that I change the logon module display from username to **real name**. So any Facebook member who uses this extension to log into your site will either have his real name (or whatever name he used to create the Facebook account with) or full email address exposed to public view. For any developer using social networking components, such as JomSocial, Community Builder, any Joomla forum component, OR a bridged registration system for phpBB3 (such as myself), this extension is TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY USELESS.

Aside from that, configuring this extension takes some doing as well as first creating a developer application from within Facebook. Those new to Joomla and/or Facebook will need a lot of handholding through this process. Finally, this extension does not integrate properly with RocketTheme’s Rokbox login option, i.e., you will either have to spend a good deal of time playing with the CSS stylesheets for the Rokbox module or completely disable it and simply use the extension’s login module or the developer’s alternate HTML mod login option (available as a separate download).

This idea cannot be properly implemented with the use of plugins alone that simply copy data from one field to another. The developer needs to embellish this idea into a component that takes the Facebook registration data and then writes a calculated Joomla username field based on some combination of first name + last name + number. For example, when John Smith users his Facebook account to log into a new Joomla site for the first time, his new username becomes, for instance, something like johnsm01.

Those developing Joomla sites for specific interest groups on Facebook may not consider the display of either the real user name or full e-mail address to be a major problem in limited instances where all Joomla users might be “Facebook friends” anyway. However, for any other type of site where anonymity is preferred or even necessary (such as mine where Western teachers in China are asking very sensitive questions about work contracts and culture), you will not be able to use this extension.

The developer needs to find a much better solution to generating the Joomla username field from a value OTHER than the Facebook member’s full e-mail address or you can plan on spending a lot of time responding to user complaints and manually changing everyone’s username from their full email address to something else.

If future versions were to incorporate a different method for generating the Joomla username other than from the Facebook email address, you could accurately change the rating from poor (i.e., virtually useless) to either very good or excellent.
Owner's reply

Hi Oldtimer55,

We have tried to keep JFacebook as simple as humanly possible for users/admins, and we will continue to do so. We use the email as the username because that a guaranteed unique key that Facebook uses.

In spite of this (and as Oldtimer55 is aware and even admitted prematurely posted this review) we have made available to all who want it the updated package which has provision for 'username' scheme selection.
Three choices are now available:
 email (default)
 first_name.lastname (as in Cameron.Barr)
 three.three (as in Cam.Bar, wrote this as a special favor to Oldtimer).
AND We have made it easy to add your own! Just look in the /username_strategies folder and away you go.

Regarding the Rocket Theme login popup, its not really a JFacebook issue, its more to do with the attempt to load a new Popup from the Lightbox popup. This would happen with any attempt to put a Facebook login button in that popup from any other Extension.

So as we definitely appreciate any constructive criticism, MMI must disagree content of this post and submit that it was done to Damage and not to give a reasonable opinion.

Kind regards,

Cameron @ MMI

2010-12-18
Reviews: 1
This product is simple yet so effective! Its a must have for any registration driven website. facebook as i am aware has the biggest user base on the www... this should not be overlooked when considering your own user base.
2010-12-17
Reviews: 5
An interface to facebook is an absolute requirement these days and the ability to allow logins and get access to the entire FB API is priceless.

I had just secured my sites with the OSE security suite and that caused some minor cosmetic problems with this extension, but my emails were answered very quickly (even on the weekend) and Cameron really went the extra mile trying to make sure I was working correctly and explained the basics in his support emails while solving every issue.

You can pay much more for FB integration, but I really doubt you can better support at any price.

This extension gets my highest recommendation.

Leon Smith
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