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FaceBook Connect establishes cross-site interconnection between FaceBook and many other third party sites, one of which might be yours. It allows:

• Registering and logging into your site with an existing FaceBook account.
• Grab personal information from user's FaceBook account.
• Propose your site to user's friends via FaceBook.
• Track friends' activities on your site. Friends on FB are friends on your site too.
• Publish information from your site as FB user Stories.
• Provide your own FB user Actions.
• Use various Social Widgets on your site.

For more information and examples please read FaceBook Connect Wiki. There are FBConnect plugins available in other CMS. Why not make one for Cotonti? A must have for social oriented sites!

This is quite a big deal, so we propose it as a collaborative investment project. That means 3 types of participants:

1. Investors are interested in using the plugin on their sites and are able to invest money into the project. Investors share expenses among each other which is much cheaper than if they ordered it personally.
2. Developers are interested in working on the project and getting paid for it. They should have both practical interest in it and skills to implement it. There may be one or several developers.
3. Project manager is person who controls everything: specification, cash flow, work progress and results. It may be either one of investors or one of developers.

Investors are likely to be people who run large community sites, or share personal information, or would like to become a FaceBook application provider.

Skills required from Developers: PHP coding skills (incl. OOP), SQL, JavaScript, REST and some XML knowledge (for XFBML). And Cotonti of course.

Please post here if you'd like to participate in this project. As an investor you should tell how much money you can contribute (either in percent of total expenses or some absolute sum). As a developer please tell why you want to do it and what relevant skills you have. Or let us know what you think about this project anyways.

I am an ametuer web designer, and I am wishing to help out over in the Development area. I know PHP/SQL well, not really Javascript, but I have mastered HTML, XHTML, and XML (all related).

I have been using Cotonti ever since that day when Trustmaster posted that topic over at neocrome.net, and LDU since... well I'm not exactly sure, but for a VERY long time

May I also suggest as I am not only an avid Facebook user but also a Twitter user that we take into consideration doing a twitter plugin as well.

Although I'm saving money for college tuition, I also could be your mini-investor. Just drop me a message and I'll see how I can help the community.

I have already developed something similar in the past (as a school project), for the dutch #1 social networking site Hyves. It has an API which uses oAuth for user authentication. Actually I've also thought about doing a Hyves plugin for Cotonti. I'm willing to work on the development of this project.

Do you have any idea on how much this project would be so we can start estimating how much the donations need to be? Just some general number

That's awesome. I've been really impressed with some of the functionality created for wordpress, especially the ability to tie in fb galleries to websites and user interaction as facebook users.

There is an algorithm which explains how the basic fbconnect plugin works:

1. If you are logged in Cotonti and FaceBook, it links your FaceBook account with your Cotonti account and provides plugin developers with connectivity objects.
2. If you are logged in Cotonti but not FaceBook, you can use that button to link your FaceBook account as well.
3. If you are registered with Cotonti and have a FaceBook account attached to your profile, you can use that button to log in quickly with FB, or use traditional login form as well.
4. If you are not registered with Cotonti and have a FaceBook account, clicking that button and logging with FaceBook leads you to a registration form, where some fields have been already filled with data from your FaceBook account, so it saves time filling the form. After you submit the form, your account is validated automatically and you get logged in immediately.
5. If you are logged in FaceBook but not Cotonti and have a Cotonti account with this FB account attached, Cotonti will log you in automatically. Unfortunately, there's currently no way to log out in this case, until you log out from FaceBook (there's a FB API bug).
6. If you are logged in FaceBook but your Cotonti account exists with no FB ID yet, despite the fact you are redirected to registration form, you can use normal login and it will link your accounts then.

There are some bugs to fix and also some settings to add, so that this behavior is more configurable.

I can release the first part as beta. No time to finish it and write documentation yet.