Since Facebook is one of the largest social network sites for the publicity, many people want to use the Facebook account to join to other networks. In phpFox, you have the ability to allow them to do this action or not. If the Facebook Connect is active, your users can join your community and log in via their Facebook account.
Notice:
- This app is applied for all phpFox packages. Refer to https://www.phpfox.com/pricing to see all packages.
- This app is currently compatible with phpFox 4.5.3 or later
- If you install this app, it will replace the current Facebook Connect core app
Compatibility
Product Information
Feature List
1 . Sign up via Facebook's account: user does the following steps to sign up via Facebook account
- Go to the community landing page and click on the Facebook icon to sign up
- User has to authenticate the Facebook's account
- System save the Facebook's email and generate a random password
- System get gender of user from Facebook to save to the database
- System download profile image of user from Facebook and save as avatar of user
2 . Sign in via Facebook's account
- At next time, user can log in via Facebook's account and he / she may need to authenticate the account again
- In case user sign up directly via email, ex: user@email.com, then next time, he / she sign in with Facebook's account whose email is also user@email.com, system will not get anything from Facebook as gender or profile image
3 . Sign in directly via email
- User can use the Facebook's email to log in into the community. The password is generated by system when user sign up. Hence, user should change password to the easy one to remember
4 . For those who Facebook's account is not verified by Facebook Team, while sign up via Facebook's account, phpFox system could not get the Facebook's email. In this case, system will require email while signing up
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