myApi Beta

bringing together the facebook API and Joomla CMS

Over the next 24 hours (Sun 28th) I will be upgrading the hosting provider of myapi.co.uk so the site may be offline at some point during this period.

Note :- myApi is currently in beta, my priority is to build a community of people who want this functionality who can provide feedback and new feature requests.  And an updated component will be made available at least once a week.

Download http://www.myapi.co.uk/myApi-SuperInstaller.zip?v=1.07.041

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myApi is a Joomla package consisting of a suite of components, modules and plugins that bring deeply integrated facebook features to your website quickly and easily.

It's main features can be summarised as follows

• Facebook Connect - Allow your users to login into you site using their facebook account, myApi links facebook users to existing or new joomla account and allows native managing of users from within Joomla and compatibility with other user management systems such as community builder.
• Full Community Builder Support - Facebook accounts can be linked to new or existing joomla accounts, wich keep synchronized with community builder.  And using a clever javascript override users community builder pictures are replaced with their current facebook profile image.
• Comments - Bring ajax powered spam proof comments to your site.  Automatically adds comment boxes to all articles or specific categories or sections
• Share - Allow users to share your site content on the web.  Automatically add share buttons to all articles and post the article contents to a users facebook profile
• Status updates - Update a users facebook status when they log into your site to tell their friends to check it out.
• Publish to mini feed - Stories such as new user accounts cad be published as a mini feed story, or stream items, to bring in more users from facebook.
• Fan Box - Show case your online communities members by showing a facebook fan box on your site.

As much as I love seeing your reviews in the comments box below it'd be great it you could write an official review here

http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/social-web/facebook-display/11624

myApi Configuration

Once you've entered a valid API and secret key you can start configuring your application and managing facebook connect users.

Go to components > myApi > connect and several different tabs are available for you the edit your settings

Connect users

This tab shows a list of joomla users that have linked their facebook profiles to the site, as an admin you are not able to add a new link between a facebook profile and joomla user, this can only be done by the facebook users on the front end.  However you can unlink facebook accounts from joomla account.  Just check the boxes next to the links you want to destroy and click unlink accounts.  This does not delete the joomla user account or facebook profile.

myApi

Here you can change your api and secret key, this si not recommended and only necessary if your are deleting or changing a facebook application

myApiContent

This tab handles the settings for the plugin plg_myapicontent please make sure that the plugin is installed and enabled by checking extensions > plugins

If the plugin is installed and enabled you can automatically add facebook comments and share buttons to all articles.  You can also choose specific sections or categories to show them on or just shown them on all.

Please not that you can add share buttons to all articles but comments are not rendered if the article is being displayed in a blog or category format, this is due to presentational issues.  Comments will only be visible on full page view.

myApiUser

This tab handles the settings for the plugin plg_myapiuser please make sure that the plugin is installed and enabled by checking extensions > plugins

If the plugin is installed and enabled it will update a users status message when they login, and display a mini feed story when a user first signs up or links accounts.  The actual text displayed in these messages can be entered on this tab.

myApiFbLogin

This tab handles the settings for the module mod_myapifblogin please make sure that the module is installed, enabled and published to the correct position by checking extensions > modules

This module shows the facebook connect login button, the button size and text can be changed here as well as specifying wether the user should stay on the same page or be redirected when they login.

myApiConnect

This tab handles the settings for the plugin plg_myapifbconnect please make sure that the plugin is installed, enabled by checking extensions > plugins

This module brings  in all the javascript needed to facebook connect and will parse facebook markup into viewable form.  You can choose extended permission from this tab.  Extended permissions allow your website even more access to your users.  When ever a user clicks on the facebook connect button from myApiFbLogin they will be prompted to grant these permissions and if the refuse will not be granted access to your site facebook connect features.  It is recommended you always insist your users grant the publish stream, email and offline access permissions.

myApiAuth

This tab shows information for the plugin plg_myapiauth please make sure that the plugin is installed and enabled by checking extensions > plugins

This is the authorisation plugin for joomla, this will convert a securely passed facebook ID into a Joomla user session.  It has not configurable settings but must be installed and enabled.