Hi,

A while ago I needed to connect one of my GLinks installations to Facebook but nobody seemed to wrote such a plugin, so I sit down and coded it myself, after few months of testing I'm now releasing it as plugin for GLinks.

You can buy the plugin from
http://www.zaaron.net/gt[/url]

Price[/b]: $50

Description[/b]:

SocialAuth Plugin for GLinks helps you simplify and enhance user registration and sign-in by using Facebook (twitter coming soon) as your login system.
Supports OAuth - Facebook newest authorization method only.
Supports cookie based and/or remote auth.


Admin options[/b]:

Option for including/ask for more permissions from the user.
Option for disabling cookie based auth (i.e. if you don't use Facebook JS SDK).
Autoupdate user profile from user's Facebook account data on every login.

Facebook fields available - Full Name, First Name, Last Name, Birthday, Gender, Default profile image

Works in dynamic and static mode![/b]

Requires Net::SSLeay and MIME::Base64 perl modules to be installed in order to work!

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Cheers,
Boris

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Just released new version of SocialAuth - 1.1.0

Now with support for Twitter authorisation as well

More information on http://www.zaaron.net/gt/

Cheers,
Boris

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New version for SocialAuth is out now - 1.2.2

Comes with support for Google+ in addition to Facebook and Twitter =)

Visit http://www.zaaron.net/gt/ for more info.

Cheers,
Boris

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Hi Boris,

It is very a good work! I also appreciate your availability and your support. :)

Thanks again!

Mick

Thanks for a great plugin! I am looking forward to more social networks being added.

He beat me to it on this one ;) I was working (and had working) a copy using a 3rd party system for logging in on pretty much any social media site available. I have it working on a site I'm creating, but just didn't have time to convert into a plugin. Ah well, you win some you loose some

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

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Mick, Tomas thank you as well :)

And yes you guessed it right! More are coming, stay tuned ;)

Cheers,
Boris

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Andy, didn't know it's a race. I was solving my own problems, but oh well, the wisest mind has something yet to learn :)

Now seriously, I looked in to your implementation and IMHO it's good but have limitations and there are recurring monthly payments involved. Which I might imagine is not acceptable for most people.

And in these days where everyone tries to steal your personal data even one more middle man is too much ... at least for me.

No offence, just my thoughts :)

Cheers,
Boris

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hehe its not a race


Me too :) I was gonna make it into a plugin (I may still do, if/when I find some time to do it) ... but for now it works perfectly for what I need.


True. The system I use allows for 2500 signups a month for free, which is far more than most people would need... thats why I went for it.


Again, very true - but all they can grab if the username/email/first/last name, so not a huge amount of data. Also, they are used by quite a few large sites - so its not really in their interest to get themselves a bad name by stealing data

Cheers

Andy (mod)
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Hmm, they state for the free plan it's per year?

Call me paranoid if you want: email/first/last name, next thought I'm having after these is ... more SPAM

Anyway, I do prefer direct communication with the API provider.

Cheers,
Boris

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Ah ok, maybe it is per year - just got back from holiday so its not fresh in my mind Still, I would LOVE to get 2500 signups to my site in one year hehe


Yup, well I would also agree with you there. The problem with the API calls is that they keep on changing as the technology does. At least with this 3rd part system, they keep it all up to date, which leaves me to concentrate on the finer details on the site I would *love* to be able to spend time learning up on all the different Social Media API systems, but some of the documentation (ie FB) is so old, it confuses you just reading different versions of it. What they really need to do, is mark documents as "outdated" when they are no longer in use. Just my 2 cents

Cheers

Andy (mod)
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Yes, I agree, it's a matter of personal preferences/objectives =)

This is a long topic to discuss though, so if you ever coming to London drop me a msg for a pint

Cheers,
Boris

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hehe I was just talking to someone else about going to London. I live about 50 miles away, but VERY rarely go there due to the traffic (I didn't realise you were in the UK )

Cheers

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Ok, back on the topic =)

New version for SocialAuth is out now - 1.3.0

Comes with support for LinkedIn addition to Facebook, Twitter and Google+ =)

Great addition for site which target professionals!

Visit http://www.zaaron.net/gt/ for more info.

Any thoughts about the next API that should be implemented?

Cheers,
Boris

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Hello everyone, how are you?
Olympics are over and we have nice and pleasant showers here in UK /well, it's hardly a news/

But to the point

Got some free time and here is the result, brand new version of SocialAuth - 1.4.0

Supports:
- Facebook
- Twitter
- Google
- LinkedIn
- (new) Foursquare
- (new) Microsoft ID (former Live ID and soon requirement if you want to login in your new Windows 8)
- (new) Yahoo ID

Changes:
- Adds support for custom url redirection by simply adding &url=http://custom/redirect/path to your auth_url
- Improved upgrade routine - now you don't have to reenter your API keys after upgrade
- Improved error handling
- Improved return_url handling
- Removed some code in favour of using build-in GLinks functionality.

Say welcome to your new users :)

For more information and to purchase visit http://www.zaaron.net/gt/

Cheers,
Boris

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