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.

[moonclamp]

That plugin completely messes up the display of the registration page. I mean text and stuff goes everywhere.

Not sure if this helps, but I have an age-restricted forum that requests DOB info first before going to the main registration page. (vb 4.1.4 btw)

I couldn't possibly give you facebook info ... far too personal, sorry.

No worries though, it's still far better than the original vb version so I'm not gonna sweat about it

[Bastiaan86]

I have tested it on my website with different facebook accounts, and also getting "profile.php" as an entered username.

The funny thing is that on your website (Digital Point) my username is set: "profile.php86".
So there is a little difference there.

[digitalpoint]

I could probably fix it if you wanted to give me an output of what Facebook is sending for that particular Facebook account. It's hard to test when it works fine with my Facebook account, so not sure what they are sending that's different. If you want to do it, see the instructions here.

[Bastiaan86]

i have sent you a message with the output of the plugin :up:

[digitalpoint]

Got it... thanks.

Mod has been updated to take into account users who have a valid profile URL, but no selected Facebook username.

[OldSchoolDSL]

Installed

4.1.8

(I assume working)

[fishmaster]

Working on 4.1.9?

[HMBeaty]

Originally Posted by fishmaster

Working on 4.1.9?

Yes

[Mark Hewitt]

When I try registering in dpoint it still requires me to input an email address, is this right?!

PS until 5 minutes ago I'd never heard of Facebook usernames. *Nobody* I know has one. Is it a US thing?

[Mark Hewitt]

PS what I'm looking for is a way for facebook users to register and for the forum to ask them what forum name they would like. And nothing else; once they've chosen it they are registered. Doable?