facebook_auth vs. fbconnect

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monti's picture

does anybody know the difference between http://drupal.org/project/fbconnect and http://drupal.org/project/facebook_auth ?
Thanks !

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fbconnect is newer. See:

amir simantov's picture

fbconnect is newer. See: http://drupal.org/node/314153

thanks

monti's picture

i understand it is newer, but am not sure what the difference is.
i assume you mean that other than being newer, there is no difference, right?

fconnect is another one

MikeBC's picture

fconnect is another fb connect implementation for drupal. it is not hosted at drupal.org, it is here:

http://vishalsood.com/projects/drupal/facebook#attachments

i've tried fbconnect module and it is a little buggy (in particular, the redirect from the fbconnect login popup back to the main drupal window with a refresh to reflect the authentication doesn't work in firefox on the mac or in chrome for the pc), i am going to uninstall it and try fconnect.

I know that fbconnect retooled some of its code to take into account the deprecation of template bundles in favor of the stream API (even though I am not sure I know what that means) and fconnect does not seem to have done that, but I don't think the actual facebook connect login system uses the stream or template bundles for that function, and fconnect demo site seems to work at least as far as fbconnect logins go.

I also raised a support issue at the page for the facebook_stream drupal module (http://drupal.org/project/facebook_stream) as to whether it can work with "fconnect" or if it requires "fbconnect."

re:FBConnect--one other thing

MikeBC's picture

apparently the latest version of that module is on github not drupal.org:

http://drupal.org/node/635568

see item #29 in the comment thread

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