By Redsun-1 on
Hi there, I'm relatively new to drupal, but I managed to get into it fairly quickly because of general web / coding experience i've gained over the years.
My problem is with integrating a forum into my site.
I want a social login option so that users don't need to create a new account to use my site or forum.
I set up the fbconnect module and although it seemed to work, when I went to my forum page it still asks users to login or register before they post.
I then tried GIGYA. I just managed to get it all set up, logged in via facebook... everything seems to work and then i go to the forum page and Im still not logged in.
Has anyone any experience of this.... or any potential solutions to my problem? thanks a lot in advance!
Mick
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Can you describe anything
Can you describe anything that might make your forums page unique? For example are you using it as a subdomain or part of a multi-site install? Or are you using Organic Groups? Also you might double-check your permissions to make sure that the user account/role you are logging into has permissions to access the forums content in Drupal.
Hey thanks for the
Hey thanks for the reply.
Nothing too special about the forum. I'm using the advanced forum module, but I can't see that changing anything. No sub domain either.
The site is tedrock.co.uk and the forum is at tedrock.co.uk/forum
Would really appreciate any insight.
Thanks
Anyone?
Anyone?
ok i have made some progress
ok i have made some progress here. When I use the GIGYA social login, it creates an account for me on the drupal database. When i click on the PEOPLE tab in admin, i can see a user created for myself from my facebook account.
however it still wont log me into the forum. This may be crucial though,.....
it says status: active, member for xx minutes, last access NEVER.
its clear that the access - never part is why its not letting the users into the forum.
does anyone know how to remedy this?
thanks in advance.
Check your account activation
Check your account activation settings in Drupal (if D7 you can check here admin/config/people/accounts). Drupal accounts are still being created through the use of these other modules, perhaps your site is set so that administrators have to approve the new accounts before they can be active, or perhaps it is set to require e-mail verification.
ok thanks, I'll look into
ok thanks, I'll look into that.
I take it from your response that FB Connect should in fact log people into the forum? I would have thought as much.
cheers for the pointer in the right direction!
Mick
THANKYOU!!
My god after all that faffing about with facebook applications and multiple connect modules.... it was something as stupid as having email validation required that was the problem.
You are a legend! Cheers!
Great! glad to know it worked
Great! glad to know it worked out.