[FX.php List] FaceBook Connect

[Tim 'Webko' Booth]

Dear Jonathan,
>
> Here's a new one...
>
> A client has asked me to deploy a FaceBook login on the web project  
> we are developing...in addition to the standard login we already  
> have in place..  After a day or two, I figured out the technical  
> component of this request: I have a Facebook login button on the  
> site and it does in fact allow a user to log using a Facebook  
> dialog, returning the available Facebook user info in an array.
>
> Great.
>
> My question is...how is this best implemented with an existing login  
> process?  I suppose that this is the same question as if I were to  
> use OpenID ...which I haven't used either.
>
> Anyone been down this road before?

Yeah, I've got a system where there can be three different ways of  
logging in. You need *something* that is known to the FileMaker system  
as well that is passed back by FaceBook. You then use a page that sets  
the session variables the same as your FileMaker system would for a  
login, and all the subsequent pages should work as normal.

In my case, there is a StudentID that all three relevant systems know  
about, so I can use that as a key for each of them when they hit the  
FM based pages...

Cheers

Webko