Social auth is the short form for social authentication. Social authentication is a module that allows users to login to Joomla web sites with their facebook or twitter account details. This module is a single page, single click login which efficiently helps the admin of the Joomla web sites to maintain the database of their users with the social networking site.

In today’s online world web sites created need to be integrated with the social networking sites. The social networking sites have grown big and they are now used not only for connecting people, they are even used for logging into web sites with the account in the social networking sites. With this backdrop web sites that are created with Joomla has got a most effective login registration form. This social auth module has been developed as an extension for the login registration com_user.

Social auth supports logging into Joomla web site using facebook account and twitter account. This makes the login functionality easy with the option for user to login using twitter and facebook account.

Features:

• Supports Joomla 1.5, 1.6 and 1.7 .
• Developed as a Module so that it could be used in all pages and all menus
• Option to login to web site using facebook account
• Option to login to web site using twitter account
• Can add both facebook and twitter login
• Single page login
• One click login
• Easy installation
• Three-way support

Note:

• Social Auth module works only if the other two plugins — facebookauth and twitterauth — are activated.
• You must have PhpCurl enabled in your server. In-case your server doesn't have PhpCurl, you are advised to contact your hosting company to enable it.
• After receiving the commercial package, the first thing to do is to unzip the commercial package and if you unzip it you would find three zip files.
  • Mod_Socialauth
  • Plg_facebookauth
  • Plg_twitterauth

These two plugins have to be installed and just activated before activating the socialauth module

Installation of Social Auth:

This is an easy-to-install module that starts working at the moment it is installed. Here are the steps

• Open Joomla admin page.
• Download the product from our web site
• The downloaded package should be in zip format as per Joomla’s requirements.
• For installing the module click Extensions Manager and select Choose file under Upload package file
• In the pop up window select the location of the package that has been saved already. Click Install.
• Bingo! The module is ready to use.

Installation of Plugin:

This is an easy-to-install module that starts working at the moment it is installed. Here are the steps

• Open Joomla admin page.
• Go to Extensions--->Extensions Manager---->Upload package file
• Choose the file that has been provided by the sales team. Take care that the package should be in zip format for successful installation.
• Click Upload & Install
• Your plugin is successfully installed now.
• You can activate the plugin by two ways.
• Choose Extensions--->Plugin Manager
• Choose the facebook login plugin from the list of plugins.
• The first way of activating this is clicking on the red dot at the right hand side of the facebook login plugin. When the plugin is activated this red dot would change into a green colored one, indicating that the plugin has been activated.
• The second way is by clicking on the facebook login plugin. Go to the page of Facebook login plugin
• In the first option Click enabled to activate the plugin.
• Yahoo! The plugin is activated now. No need to add this to any of the articles. This would automatically be assigned to all the articles.

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This section, the frequently asked questions, is built to cover most of the non-technical question about the products and the usage of it. You can refer the Documentation section for any technical queries. If you feel something important is missing here, you can always e-mail us that would be replied promptly.

What is Social Auth?

This is a one-step login for your Joomla web sites through the facebook login credentials. Use this module to make ease your work. The end-user need not login to your website through your login form, he could simply use the facebook credentials.

Will this support Joomla 1.5, 1.6 and 1.7?

Yes, this module supports all the versions of Joomla. So this could even be added to your existing web site if it is built in Joomla 1.5.

How it is useful to my web site?

With this facebook login module you could simplify your job. This is a one-step on the page login format. This is a simple and safe form of login where the site admin need not worry about any security leak.

Can I get new updates?

Check the ToS of Plestar Infotech.

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