FBC: Facebook Connect

Ok so one of our best selling add-ons is FBC, the add-on that lets people login to an EE site using their Facebook account. The add-on mimics the login routine in EE as well as mimics the member account creation in some cases. From what I can tell, none of what FBC needs to do is prevented under the new authentication paradigm. However, the new authentication could make things much much easier for FBC type add-ons.

You are supporting several prepackaged public methods

authenticate_email() authenticate_username() authenticate_http_basic() authenticate_id()

I can’t actually use any of those because they require me to provide a password for the user. When people authenticate with Facebook, I verify against the Facebook API that they are real and legit, then I let them into the EE site, without asking for a password I create a session for them and all that. I see that I can use…

$incoming = new Auth_result($mem_q->row()); $incoming->start_session();

…to get someone logged in without their password, but if I do, I need to replicate a bunch of your error tests as well. I also have to update someone’s stats manually since…

_update_online_user_stats()

…is private.

You guys are busy and I don’t need you to code in anything special here, but the new authentication doesn’t do anything extra special sexy for the likes of a dude like me; although it definitely could.

mk

P.S. why does the build in the CP say 2.1.5 but you guys are calling it 2.2.0?