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Introduction & Drupal modules overview
Introduction & Drupal modules overview
Starting at 30th of November 2008 Facebook announced their new cool feature called Facebook connect. Today a lot of sites are using it and their number are growing.
Introduction
So, what is Facebook connect? Facebook connect is an addition to their developing platform that allow third party web-sites integrate all power of Facebook's social context. It brings a lot of interesting features into web-site like:
- One-click authentication. It dramatically simlify registration/login process on web-site which use Facebook connect. User can avoid long registration process on your site (filling long forms with personal data, email confirmation etc.) by clicking 1 button which brings all data needed from Facebook to web-site at background and not visible by user.
- You are able to get all information form user's Facebook page and use it on your web-site. You can put a link somewhere that says «There N friends use this site – invite more», you can show user's friends activity on web-site etc. It will increase site's social part a lot.
- Facebook also let you pull certain information from user profile like his profile photo, name, address etc.
- Free and efficient advertisement on Facebook. Every user’s action on your web-site can trigger information posting on his wall. So all his friends will see that info and be able to click through onto your site.
Drupal.org modules
As usual you can search existed solutions among Drupal modules on drupal.org by executing something like http://drupal.org/search/apachesolr_multisitesearch/facebook?filters=ss_meta_type:module
You can see that there are a lot of results and Facebook integration is very popular and fast growing developing direction. In our projects we used “Facebook connect” module (http://drupal.org/project/fbconnect), but there are a lot of new and probably more interesting ones like “Facebook Live Stream Module” (http://drupal.org/project/facebook_stream), “Drupal for Facebook” (http://drupal.org/project/fb), “Facebook social plugins integration” (http://drupal.org/project/fb_social) etc.
