Facebook Connect Package for Umbraco

While working on the kashmir.nu project, we did some research on how to implement facebook authentication to a website. Later on i was asked to do a session on Codegarden 2010 regarding this matter. Therefore i have isolated the functionality in a very simple Umbraco package for you to download.

Download Facebook Connect package for Umbraco

Current features:

• Adds a facebook-connect button to your page
• Adds a “Publish to facebook” button when logged in (the user can publish on his wall)
• Shows username and shows picture of the user logged in (your have access to all properties if you can do some C#)
• Possible to disable loginbutton, so it can be used for integrating authentication to other controls (ex: uComment by Tim Geyssens)

Package will install:

• FacebookConnect Macro (insert it in a template whereever you wan’t your connect button)
• FacebookConnect.dll
• facebook.dll (official from facebook toolkit)
• Microsoft.Xml.Schema.Linq.dll
• PackageActionsContrib.dll (umbraco)
• FacebookContent.css (stylesheet for you to edit or delete)
• 2 AppSettings entries in web.config (FacebookAPIKey and FacebookSecret)