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Google Friend Connect

Page history last edited by Eugene 2 weeks, 3 days ago

Google retired Friend Connect on March 1, 2012.

 

 

 

 

 

Google Friend Connect is an on-line service by Google that turns your site into a social network. 
If you use it on your site, it's possible to integrate Ecwid with it. After that all users who've joined your site will be automatically logged into Ecwid.
 

How to do it 

(We assume that you already have Ecwid installed)

 
1. Add Google Friend Connect to your site, if you haven't done it yet
2. Add the following code: 
 
<script>
    xFriendConnect('SITEID');
</script>
 
right after this line:
 
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://app.ecwid.com/script.js?STORE_ID" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
So it should look like this: 
 
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://app.ecwid.com/script.js?STORE_ID" charset="utf-8"></script>

<script>
    xFriendConnect('SITEID');
</script>
 
SITEID is your Friend Connect Site Id. 
 
 

 

Google Friend Connect and Single sign-on

Google Friend Connect provides a simple means of one-click user authentication using a pre-existing Google, Yahoo, AIM, or OpenID account.

It's possible to use GFC as a sign-in provider. It means that if a customer is logged into your site, he will be logged into Ecwid too.
 
  • Add Google Friend Connect to your site.
  • Integrate your Ecwid store with Google Friend Connect
  • Use Google Friend Connect plugin for your CMS or API to integrate GFC with your site.
 
After that if customer is authenticated in GFC on your store, he will be automatically logged into Ecwid and your site/CMS.

 

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