cs.auth.facebook 1.0.1

Facebook authentication plugin for Plone

Introduction

A PAS plugin to login into a Plone Site using Facebook.

• Log in to a Plone site through Facebook: when a user requests to log in to the Plone site he will be redirected to Facebook so that he provides the credentials there, then he will be redirected back to the Plone site and will be identified there.

• The user will be a standard Plone user, so Roles or Group membership can be set.

• Minimal user information is kept in Plone such as full name, Facebook ID, photo and e-mail (if available) of the user. This is kept to avoid permanent requests to Facebook API. This information is refreshed each time the user logs in to the site.

Installation and getting started

Add cs.auth.twitter to your buildout.cfg’s eggs list. It will install all required dependencies.

You have to add a configuration similar to this to the [instance] section of your buildout file:

zope-conf-additional =
   <product-config beaker>
       session type     file
       session.data_dir ${buildout:directory}/var/sessions/data
       session.lock_dir ${buildout:directory}/var/sessions/lock
       session.key      beaker.session
       session.secret   this-is-my-secret-${buildout:directory}
   </product-config>

This is needed because we are using collective.beaker to handle Facebook login session information.

Install the product in the Plone Control Panel. This will create a “Login with Facebook” action into the personal tools toolbar in Plone.

Create a new Facebook app at https://developers.facebook.com/app and fill in the required data in the plugin’s control panel form.

Credit

This product re-distributes a lot of code written by Martin Aspeli (aka @optilude) in his book “Professional Plone 4 Development” and available under GPL license in his personal GitHub account with the name ‘optilux.facebookauth’:

https://github.com/optilude/optilux/tree/chapter-16/src/optilux.facebookauth

Compatibility

Plone 4.x

Changelog

1.0.1 (2014-10-10)

• Fix docs [erral]

1.0 (2014-10-10)

• Fix user search [erral]

• Fix to be able to add the plugin through the ZMI [erral]

1.0b2 (2012-10-16)

• FaceBook users are now PloneUsers [erral]

• Implement user search in storage [erral]

• Get properties from self data storage instead of relying on Session [erral]

• Change user action name not to clash with Plone’s login [erral]

1.0b1 (2012-07-13)

• Initial release [erral]