Facebook open graph API auth backend implementation using the Django web framework and Python django-facebook is a Django app that provides login and registration functionality using the new facebook open graph API.
* Actually creates user models and profiles
* Robust facebook user data -> django account conversion
Implementation:
Step 1 - Settings
Define the settings in django_facebook/settings.py in your settings.py file.
Step 2 - Url config
add
url(r'^facebook/', include('django_facebook.urls')),
to your global url.py file.
Step 3 - Ensure the FB JS api is available on all pages you want to login
[Facebook JS API](http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/javascript/)
Step 4 - Update your models
Add to your user profile model
about_me = models.TextField(blank=True, null=True) facebook_id = models.IntegerField(blank=True, null=True) facebook_name = models.CharField(max_length=255, blank=True, null=True) facebook_profile_url = framework_fields.URLTextField(blank=True, null=True) website_url = framework_fields.URLTextField(blank=True, null=True) blog_url = framework_fields.URLTextField(blank=True, null=True) image = models.ImageField(blank=True, null=True) date_of_birth = models.DateField(blank=True, null=True)
Step 5 - Template
See examples/connect.html.
For more details, see the [Facebook docs](http://developers.facebook.com/docs/).
Requirements:
· Python
· Django
· django.contrib.auth
· django-registration
· python-cjson