thomaswelton/myApi — Issue #111: Great Module! But I can't seem to get it to work....
Author: RLambertus
Created: 2011-12-30 09:34:58+00:00
State: open

Hi Thomas

First off,... great module! I love to see such a complete functionality without the 'extra modules cost money' strategy.

I'm having trouble loggin in, and not just to my own site.
When I click 'connect with facebook' I get a fb popup asking me for permissions on my facebook account.
All good so far, but when I click 'allow' the popup closes and nothing really changes on the screen.
I'm not logged onto my site. When I go to an article and hit 'like' I get a popup that disappears before
I can read it, and then it keeps popping up untill I x the window before it disappears.
When I click send I get a 'you must logon to continue', but when I do nothing happens.
Click it again and the same happens.
When I hit share it actually puts the article on my fb wall, so something is going right.
When I place a comment via my own site,... nothing
When I place a comment on the shared article on facebook it doesn't show up on my site.
Redid all this on a clean Joomla 1.7.3 install and the same thing happend.

I figured I had the module set up wrong, but when I went to your site the same thing happend and when I tried to like something on the Joomla extentions directory (looks like you module) it does the same.

I have noticed that when I check myapp at developer.facebook.com I see that the callback url has been changed to the subdomain of my joomla install. I have to assume that yor module changed this setting so it must be getting throught to fb OK.

Any Ideas?

Another thing, perhaps a feature request...
I noticed that whe I first try to login with fb the dialog ask for quiet a few permissions. I get that you need them for you awesome module to work, but, as for me, personally, I'd never give a website so much permissions right off. In fact, I've never authorised an app to do more than get my basic info. Now, to get someone logged on and regsitered all I need is a name, picture and email address. I think it would be benificial if the first dialog didn't ask for anything else and have the user op in to various function requiring more persissions later on, either volentairily or when the user tries to use some functionality. In my opinion and experience, both as a programmer and internet user, that would greatly increase the number of people that will be willing to link their accounts to facebook. As it stands I'd tend to refuse to give permission, and its my own site ;-) People are nervous about this kind of stuff, and (partly) rightly so, I think. Once people become part of a community and want to use specififc functionality its another story, but at first login......

Kind Regards
Rudi Lambert

p.s. I'm kinda new to Joomla, but I'm an experienced programmer and have experience programming the fbapi in php (and js). I'd be happy to work on this module with you if want/need some help.