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Facebook Logins with Facebook Connect

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

Facebook ConnectThis is a follow-up to one of my most popular posts, “Getting a Facebook Login working with your application“. That was written in 2007, and is quite out of date.

This entire post was inspired by a reader who e-mailed me asking for help. I’m more than happy to help someone who is learning. It makes the whole thing worthwhile.

In May 2008, Facebook announced “Facebook Connect”, a Trusted authentication method so that user’s profiles can be used on other sites. My 2007 article pretty much does what Facebook Connect does for you now, but Facebook have made it much easier. To get started, take a look at the Facebook Connect web pages and more specifically, the single sign-on guide.

A few things of note:

  1. This does not replace your current login system. You still need a user database
  2. People still need to click “connect” and you cannot use general session/cookie information to simply log in without interaction.

Facebook claims it gives you 15% more registrations, so what are you waiting for, get started!

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Getting a Facebook Login working on your application

Saturday, August 18th, 2007

Update 2010: This method is still valid but has been replaced with “Facebook Connect”. See a follow-up post: Facebook Logins with Facebook Connect

I’m writing this after a hard day’s work with the Facebook API. It’s almost been work the blood, sweat and tears that I have shed during the last 5 hours. This will also hopefully serve as a guide for anyone trying to get something simple done with facebook authentication. (more…)

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Fixes and Fancy Stuff

Friday, August 17th, 2007

First, sorry for not updating this blog in the past month. I’ve been to Greece and then spent another week here doing all the touristy things with my girlfriend so I’ve not really had time to update this.

I’d then like to say, that whilst I’ve not been updating this, I’ve been hard at work on USEv4. Since I last updated, the whole site has been put into the templates and at the moment I’m just going over everything and fixing any problems I come across. Whilst I’ve been doing this I’ve been getting the opportunity to add a couple of fancy bits in. For instance, I’ve now got the Thickbox jQuery plugin working for squad status (see below) (more…)

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