CB Connect Questions

Hi,
I am thinking of renewing my CB membership to take advantage of CB Subs and CB Connect. I have questions about CB Connect:

1. When a user registers for an account using Facebook, does this user get created in the backend of CB under Users and in Joomla as well? What information is passed to CB/Joomla?

2. If a user DOES get created from registering via Facebook, do CB Autoactions still process for onAfterRegistration events? (We add some data to a separate non-CB table when someone registers.)

3. Will the user still receive a confirmation email that they signed up?

4. Lastly, if integrating this option on an existing website, are existing users able to do anything with logging in via their Facebook as an alternative login method, without creating a new account?


Thanks in advance for your help! I am curious about this, since offering FB registration/login would make our website more flexible going forward.

cbasista wrote: Hi,
I am thinking of renewing my CB membership to take advantage of CB Subs and CB Connect. I have questions about CB Connect:

1. When a user registers for an account using Facebook, does this user get created in the backend of CB under Users and in Joomla as well? What information is passed to CB/Joomla?

Yes, a user is created in both CB and Joomla.
Basic information is passed (Name, email, avatar, etc) and also any additional information fields that are configured.

2. If a user DOES get created from registering via Facebook, do CB Autoactions still process for onAfterRegistration events? (We add some data to a separate non-CB table when someone registers.)

I would say Yes - but will ask Kyle to confirm here.

3. Will the user still receive a confirmation email that they signed up?

Once again, I would say yes and ask Kyle to followup.

4. Lastly, if integrating this option on an existing website, are existing users able to do anything with logging in via their Facebook as an alternative login method, without creating a new account?

Yes, they can sync up there existing site account with their facebook account.

Thanks in advance for your help! I am curious about this, since offering FB registration/login would make our website more flexible going forward.

Hope I addressed everything and hope Kyle confirms my answers here.

1. When a user registers for an account using Facebook, does this user get created in the backend of CB under Users and in Joomla as well? What information is passed to CB/Joomla?

Yes, it creates the user through normal CB API usage as documented below.

www.joomlapolis.com/support/tutorials/120-api-usage/18362-registering-a-user-through-cb-api

2. If a user DOES get created from registering via Facebook, do CB Autoactions still process for onAfterRegistration events? (We add some data to a separate non-CB table when someone registers.)

Yes, the registration and login triggers both fire.

3. Will the user still receive a confirmation email that they signed up?

If you have email confirmation enabled, yes, but it's often not recommended as they may or may not have a valid email address (the email address provided by Facebook for example could be temporary or a proxy address).

4. Lastly, if integrating this option on an existing website, are existing users able to do anything with logging in via their Facebook as an alternative login method, without creating a new account?

Yes, there's a "Linking" feature that users can use once they've logged in to link a social site account to their existing CB account.