Experience.FellowshipOne.com

Here is something of interest to you guys...  I wrote a Joomla 1.5.x authentication plugin for F1.  You can get it Download it Here

Just login to the Joomla admin interface, select go to Extensions->Install/Uninstall then browse to the zip file and upload.  Once installed you need to enter your church code(weblink church code) and a user that has data exchange permissions.

If you use the Joomla login module, this will allow you to login using an F1 weblink account... so you see what possiblities this gives you.

Enjoy

Mark

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Mark Spidle - IT Director
Point of Grace Church
markspidle@pointofgrace.com
www.pointofgrace.com

Mark,

Could you explain how you guys are using this plugin to benefit your church? I am curious as to what it is you are doing. Thanks for sharing!

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Will Steed
Delivery Manager
Fellowship Technologies
wsteed@fellowshiptech.com

Sure, the thought was to integrate the weblink login right into the website.  Instead of using the F1 popup window.  You would login using a nice themed login panel, then when you click a link for a registration, giving etc. the popup for that would open.

Mark 

Like http://www.gccwired.com/

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Mark Spidle - IT Director
Point of Grace Church
markspidle@pointofgrace.com
www.pointofgrace.com

Hi Mark, Thanks for the code, but I'm not getting success out of it. Installation of the plugin gave the error message below, although it did say plugin was installed successfully.

XML Parsing Error at 1:0. Error 4: not well-formed (invalid token)

 I've enabled the plugin and added in the details, but I could not validate my Weblink account under Joomla.

 Any suggestions? I'm using Joomla 1.5.9.

 

Regards,

Kelvin
Technical Administrator
CrossCulture Church of Christ

Here is a link to an updated .gz file that will install without an errors FILE  As for it not working...

You need to get your church code from F1 portal->Weblink->Weblink Setup->Integration Code, this will go in the plugin setup Church Code

You also need to set up a generic portal user that has data exchange permissions, this username and password go in pluging setup Data Exchange User-Data Exchange Password

You will also need to move the F1 Authentication plugin to the top of the list, this way Joomla tries to authenticate with it before all other plugins.

Mark

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Mark Spidle - IT Director
Point of Grace Church
markspidle@pointofgrace.com
www.pointofgrace.com

I'm having issues with this Joomla Plugin too.  I've setup a generic portal user with weblink privileges and given the plugin the username and password along with the F1 Weblink church code, but it doesn't seem to work quite right. I've listed the problems I've noticed below...

1. If the weblink username doesn't match a valid joomla username it will not sign in. Does each weblink username need to have a corresponding joomla user account?
   
2. If the weblink username DOES match a valid joomla username it will sign in regardless of the password given (correct or not).  I was able to sign in using my real password, 'test', and a couple of other incorrect passwords.  This shouldn't happen, am I doing something wrong?
   
3. Even when I do login with my correct weblink username and weblink password if I then click on a link to edit my weblink profile, weblink asks me to sign in again which it should not do.  If I login directly to weblink and then use the same link to edit my profile it does not require me to sign in again.  Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Nick

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Nick Pounders
Life Connections Church
Lead Worshiper/Web Developer
http://www.makelifeconnections.com

I found one thing that needs to be set in addition to the above.  Go to Joomla Admin->Extensions->Plugins->User - Joomla! and set the Auto Create Users to No

This will force Joomla to always authenticate against F1 and to not create a local joomla user.  If this is on joomla tries to create a user in it database, if your login name is not an email address it will always fail.

I'll look into the incorrect password issue too.

Mark

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Mark Spidle - IT Director
Point of Grace Church
markspidle@pointofgrace.com
www.pointofgrace.com

Here is a fixed version that has the correct check for authentication.  FILE

So to recap,

1. install plugin,
2. enter your church code, and a data exchange user
3. Disable  Auto Create Users

Then it should would fine.

 

Mark

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Mark Spidle - IT Director
Point of Grace Church
markspidle@pointofgrace.com
www.pointofgrace.com

I'm really looking forward to using this plugin!

I've got everything working except when I click on one of my f1 links.. it takes me to the login screen even though I have logged in using the module.

What am I missing here?

 

Thanks!
Nathan Staub

Nathan,

From here on you'll need to do custom code, including modifying your login form/module to be able to do what you are seeking.  You will need to set a session variable with the indivudualcode from F1, or you can use javascript to open the F1 Weblink links.  A good source to look at is how www.gccwired.com does it.

Mark

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Mark Spidle - IT Director
Point of Grace Church
markspidle@pointofgrace.com
www.pointofgrace.com

Wow Mark!

Thank you SO much!  I have been wanting something like this since we got F1 5 years ago and I just do not know enough programming to be able to do it.

This plugin is going to be great!

I am new to Fellowship One and very interested in the Joomla Authentication Plugin. 

Willl this login plugin work with the new REST apis or does it need updated. 

Maybe a better question is.... Does this plug-in have anything to do with using REST apis?

 Thanks,

Gail

Gail,

No it hasn't been updated for the REST api's and at this time I don't plan on making that change.

Thanks

Mark 

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Mark Spidle - IT Director
Point of Grace Church
markspidle@pointofgrace.com
www.pointofgrace.com