Facebook Connect
Facebook plug-in will let your visitors seamlessly "connect" their Facebook account and information with your site, find their friends who also use your site and share information and actions on your site with their friends on Facebook.
Description
Facebook Connect plug-in will let your visitors seamlessly "connect" their Facebook account and information with your site, find their friends who also use your site and share information and actions on your site with their friends on Facebook.
On your Vivvo websites, members will be able to post comments using their facebook ID (and avatar, of course), to see their friends on your site and invite other as well as post articles and comments to their FB profiles.
After installation, members can log-in using Facebook account but Vivvo still keeps all user accounts in its database so they can log-in using their Vivvo credentials as well.
Usage
Connect with friends - When a member is connected using Facebook account he/she is able to see if a Facebook friend is also registered on this Vivvo website and also if the friend who has both accounts (Vivvo and Facebook) has never used Facebook account to log-in to Vivvo (never clicked on Connect with Facebook). In that case member will be offered to invite this friend via “Invite your unconnected friends” link. Invited friends will get Connect request on Facebook with link that takes them to Vivvo website.
Invite friends - There is also "Invite your friends" or "Invite your other friends" link so member can invite any Facebook friend who doesn't use Vivvo website to join this Vivvo site.
Display FB avatar on Vivvo comments - If a member that posts comment is connected with Facebook ID his Facebook avatar will show up next to the comment.
Publish Vivvo comments on Facebook Wall - When logged with Facebook account, member that posts comment is able to select "Publish on Facebook" option which is located below the comment form. If this checkbox is selected, "Publish this feed dialog" appears and the comment with the abstract image and link to the article displays on the Facebook Wall.
Pre-installation Steps
Prior to installing the plug-in itself, you should create Facebook Application. Head over to http://www.facebook.com/developers/ and click Set Up New Application button. Follow on screen instructions and make sure to note down Facebook Application ID and Application Secret. You will need it in Vivvo plug-in installation procedure.
Make sure that your modifiers folder (in your Vivvo root) is writable by web server.
How to Install?
To install Facebook Connect plug-in you need to click on the install icon on the right side of the plug-ins name.
This will take you to the page where a couple of fields have to be filled in in order to continue with installation.
Facebook Application ID and Application Secret - You'll get those when creating Facebook Application as instructed in Pre-installation Steps chapter. Just copy and paste each key to corresponding field.
Invite action title - This is what will be displayed on the dialog box when someone chooses to invite friends to join Vivvo site.
Application description - This description will be displayed in request when inviting people to join Vivvo site.
When you are done with this step click on Finish button to go back to the Plug-ins page.
Access
The path to the Facebook Connect plug-in:
Click on Plug-ins link (which is located in the second level Menu on the right side at the top of your administrator panel).
Choose Facebook Connect plug-in from the list of all installed plug-ins (on the left side of the screen).
User level
This plug-in can be accessed only by users belonging to groups that are allowed to manage Facebook Connect plug-in.
Actions
If needed, you can change plug-in preferences on the plug-ins page in Vivvo administration panel.
All settings you set during installation can be edited and updated. When done just click on Save button.
