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.

[HMBeaty]

Sweet. Thanks!

[Boofo]

Works as advertised for me.

[digitalpoint]

Have you tried with your own Facebook account by chance?

[HMBeaty]

Hey dp, do you have a branding free option for this? Or how can I remove the the copyright in the footer?

[digitalpoint]

It should only be a copyright on the actual registration page, no?

[HMBeaty]

Originally Posted by digitalpoint

It should only be a copyright on the actual registration page, no?

Correct

[MarceloS]

Hi DP. Nice mod! Does it make the system remember the user when he comes back to the forum?

[8thos]

*installs*

[moonclamp]

Originally Posted by digitalpoint

Then it will simply let them pick one. Although, doesn't everyone have to have a Facebook username these days?

I don't - I decided it would make me too easy to track down.

Anyway, what happens with me is my username gets entered as "profile.php"

Personally I'd like to see the username field blank by default - thus forcing the user to think.

[digitalpoint]

Originally Posted by moonclamp

I don't - I decided it would make me too easy to track down.

Anyway, what happens with me is my username gets entered as "profile.php"

Personally I'd like to see the username field blank by default - thus forcing the user to think.

Strange... makes me think Facebook is giving an odd profile URL in your case for some reason. I just double checked it with my Facebook account, and it works as expected.

Could you create a plug-in at the register_form_complete hook location with the following code:

PHP Code:

print_r ($fb_userinfo); 


Then if you go to your registration page and use the Facebook connect, it will barf out the data we are getting from Facebook.

If you want to PM me that data, I could try to figure out what's going on with your FB account (and presumably some others)...

If you do, don't forget to disable the plug-in after you get the dump.