Miscellaneous Hacks - Digital Point Better Facebook Registration

About
I was getting terribly annoyed with the number of users registering with Facebook Connect, only to say they accidentally registered with their real name and wanted to change it.

So with this, the default username will be their Facebook username, NOT their real name.

This will work with 4.0.3 or higher (4.0.3 was the first version with Facebook Connect).

Installation

• Install the product-dp_better_facebook_reg.xml product under AdminCP -> Plugins & Products -> Manage Products -> Add/Import Product

You can see a live version in action here (assuming you are logged into Facebook of course):
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/register.php


Details
Let's say my name is "Shawn Hogan" and my Facebook username is "dpoint" (which it is) and I sign up for a forum that utilizes the Facebook Connect integration that came with vBulletin 4.0.3 or higher...

By default, vBulletin will make my username "Shawn Hogan".

With this addon, my default username will be "dpoint"... if "dpoint" is taken, it will default to "dpoint75" (1975 is the year I was born)... if "dpoint75" is taken, it will default to "dpointXX" (XX being a random number).

By default vBulletin also resets the username back to "Shawn Hogan" if I overrode it, but there was an error with my registration. So as an added bonus, the system will always remember the username if it was set by the user registering.

[Boofo]

I'm gonna have th slide on this one, although I was looking forward to getting it working. I can't get past the captcha when I go to create the app. It won't accept my input for the correct words. It keeps giving me an error.

[HellRZR]

Sounds great, marked as installed, thanks.

[HellRZR]

Just tested this, doesnt work for me. used my wife account which she uses her real name and no username on facebook and it created a VB user with her real name. I installed the XML file as indicated, did I miss something? BTW running VB 4.1.3.

[Wordplay]

Originally Posted by BigDog007

Everyone has a Facebook Username.. Your right shawn 100%

wrong you only have a facebook username if your facebook account is confirmed via telephone. i just opened 50 of my facebook friends to test it, and only 13 of them had a facebook username.

[HellRZR]

Originally Posted by Wordplay

wrong you only have a facebook username if your facebook account is confirmed via telephone. i just opened 50 of my facebook friends to test it, and only 13 of them had a facebook username.

I think wordplay is right,

I tested as follows. Using again my wifes account I created her a username in FB (account not confirmed via telephone). I then deleted her from my VB users and then tired to register her again using FB connect and once again it created a VB user using her real name.

So it didnt pickup the FB username, nor did it give me an option to change username on VB.

[digitalpoint]

If you want the user to be able to optionally pick/override their username, you would set the AdminCP -> Settings -> Options -> Facebook Options -> Enable Auto-Register option to "No".

[digitalpoint]

Also, I should have been more specific... it will only use the Facebook username if they HAVE a Facebook username. If they don't, it will stick to what vBulletin uses by default (their real name).

[HellRZR]

What do you use on your site may I ask? do you have auto-resister set to Yes or No?

[digitalpoint]

We don't auto register.

[strudinox]

I installed this plugin but it doesn't seem to be working for me. Since installing it yesterday, I've had about 20 registrations from facebook, and each of them still have their first and last name as their username. I think it would be kind of unlikely that out of 20ish people, none of them would be using a username. Any ideas?