Quotes below outline exactly the problems I'm facing.

It's impossible for me to associate existing accounts with fbConnect.
I have tried this several times with my own account and I am unable to get anything to show up on my Facebook wall when I post a new thread.

I think that a great deal of the issues people are having would be solved if this was installed via vBulletin's plug-in architecture instead of relying on template edits.
Please consider this, or let someone who knows how to use the vB plug-in API set this up.

If this only works for new users and new users' emails aren't set up properly, I'm going to have to uninstall this.

Good idea for an add-on, but, unfortunately, several problems still remain...

I have the same issue...

Not sure if this has happened to anyone or if anyone has noticed but all of the problems I had with this mod (iframe too small & not connecting existing users with FB) have automatically been resolved.

The only problem I still seem to have is that a user can only have one item posted on their FB wall per day and it's the last item they have posted in the forum whether it's a new login/new thread/reply. Does this happen to anyone else or not...thanks.

I am in no way a pro as I just started this entire vBulletin thing BUT what I did was add the FB button code to the navbar_additions mod this mod created. Let me know if you need further explanation.

I'm just getting started with VB and this is only my second mod so I'm hoping this is just a dumb newbie problem and someone will know the answer. I've read every post in this thread and have tried everything I could think of without any luck.

I'm stuck on step 5. When I click "FB Connect Options > News-Feed Templates" I get this:

"Warning: fopen(http://api.facebook.com/restserver.php) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Connection timed out in [path]/includes/facebook/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php on line 2487"

If I click on Register Default Templates underneath the Registered News-Feed Templates box, that just times out too.

I've reloaded all files, reinstalled the whole mod, deleted my FB application and tried it different ways, and it shouldn't be my PHP (PHP Version 5.2.6-1+lenny2). It seems like it has to be something with FB that I'm doing wrong (I don't know anything about FB and only signed up for an account to do this). If anyone has any ideas PLEASE let me know. Thanks!

Any chance this would run on PHP Version 4.4.5?

nope. you'll have to upgrade.

I fix this, by uploading the whole package again and import the XML file.
But now I am getting an error after I create a post.

I am not getting the publish to facebook question... instead I am getting a faceboook error :mad:

Any idea how to correct this? I reset the News-Feed Templates but it didn't fix it.

does anyone have this working with the "new" facebook layout launched yesterday? mt fb connect now shoots me an error when I hit publish

This mod is dead. Everyone who has installed it is basically screwed because you cannot uninstall it otherwise your members who signed up via facebook wont be able to login.

The author released this mod with bugs, fixed a few... then abandoned it.

What's worse is that this is in the running for mod of the month - I cant believe it. I voted it 'terrible'.

For anyone who disagrees, I would suggest you read this thread properly and then ask yourself if this thread deserves a 'supported' flag. This is the least supported mod I've ever seen.

I'm not being ungrateful - I know releasing mods takes hard work.... but releasing them is easy - supporting them harder. I see no point in releasing a mod, not patching the holes and leaving everyone who has installed it 'trapped' - this sucks.

/rant

It was working fine for me I love it and so do my members - I hired the dev to install and he was there to do it and he couldnt have forseen fb making an internal change the way they did so Im sure he'll fix it

thats my opinion - I have 250 monthly users now so I see this as invaluable and because its so new, you have to cut some slack - its something someone made for free!

It seems there is a problem with the news-feeds after the last facebook update. There is nothing I can do about it, but facebook IS aware of the issue and hopefully they'll fix it soon.

I would suggest you guys disable the news-feeds in your vbconnect settings (set Enable Feeds to No) for now.

Jeez, calm down. I have been following this mod and he is doing he can. I don't see you being nice. Maybe a thank you. Even donating to help him out? Instead you complain. He has updated the mod many times and talking to facebook, what else do you want?

When i use http://mysite.com it works but when i use http://www.mysite.com it does not work .. What may be the problem ?

Thank you

Cookies probably -
Use .htaccess to redirect all non-www to www

sllik.. are you still offereing professional installs? I've done most of the steps, but somethings not right, so i've disabled it for now. But i'd like to have you finish it and get it working. Let me know and i'll PP you.. the site is http://BowlingTracker.com

Thanks..

Installed yesterday and works very well, but noticed two issues:

1. When I tried to use the "Use your existing Login" link, it simply let me login with my existing login. It didn't update my Facebook profile or update it when I posted a test post.

2. When I created a new ID on the forum, it asked me if I wanted to grant permission to update Facebook. I tried to click the Publish button, but nothing happened. I clicked cancel, and it logged me in fine, but no messages appeared on my Facebook profile. I went into Facebook and manually granted the app permissions to publish, and now it works fine. I get messages on my Facebook profile when I post, reply etc, but this is obviously not ideal.

What I did was go through all the Facebook Connect Templates looking for calls to FB.Connect.showFeedDialog

Inside all those functions I changed FB.FeedStorySize.oneLine to null. Its not ideal as it now wants to post short stories rather than the one line ones but its a temp fix that works

Hi

When data mapping I get this show, and it also shows when loading the posts:

query_first(" SELECT fbuid FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "fbuser WHERE userid = " . $userid . " LIMIT 1 "); return intval($user['fbuid']); } function fetch_fbuser_info($query) { require_once(DIR . '/includes/facebook/facebook.php'); global $vbulletin, $db; $fbusers = $db->query_read($query); $fbuids = ""; $vbuids = array(); while ($fbuser = $db->fetch_array($fbusers)) { if ($fbuser['fbuid']) { $fbuids .= $fbuser['fbuid'] . ","; $vbuids[] = $fbuser['userid']; } } $fbuids = rtrim($fbuids, ','); $fbuserinfo = $vbulletin->session->vars['fbuserinfo']; if ($vbulletin->facebook == null) $vbulletin->facebook = new Facebook($vbulletin->options['fbconnect_apikey'], $vbulletin->options['fbconnect_secret']); try { $fbuser = $vbulletin->facebook->api_client->users_getInfo($fbuids, 'name, first_name, last_name, affiliations, pic, pic_small, pic_square'); for ($i = 0; $i < count($fbuser); $i++) $fbuserinfo[$vbuids[$i]] = $fbuser[$i]; $vbulletin->session->set('fbuserinfo', $fbuserinfo); } catch(FacebookRestClientException $ex) { } //print_r($vbulletin->session->vars['fbuserinfo']); } function set_fb_data(&$target, $userid = '', $profilefield = false) { require_once(DIR . '/includes/facebook/facebook.php'); global $vbulletin, $db, $show, $vbphrase, $fb_field_map, $avatarurl; if ($userid) $target['userid'] = $userid; if ($vbulletin->options['fbconnect_importdata'] && $target['userid'] != '') { $fbuserinfo = $vbulletin->session->vars['fbuserinfo']; if (!is_array($fbuserinfo[$target['userid']])) { $fbuid = get_fb_uid($target['userid']); if ($fbuid) { if ($vbulletin->facebook == null) $vbulletin->facebook = new Facebook($vbulletin->options['fbconnect_apikey'], $vbulletin->options['fbconnect_secret']); try { $fbuser = $vbulletin->facebook->api_client->users_getInfo($fbuid, 'name, first_name, last_name, affiliations, pic, pic_small, pic_square'); $fbuserinfo[$target['userid']] = $fbuser[0]; $vbulletin->session->set('fbuserinfo', $fbuserinfo); } catch(FacebookRestClientException $ex) { } } } if (is_array($fbuserinfo[$target['userid']])) { if (!is_array($fb_field_map)) { $fb_field_map = array(); $profile_fields = $db->query_read(" SELECT * FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "fbdatamap "); while ($field = $db->fetch_array($profile_fields)) { $fb_field_map[$field['vbfield']] = $field['fbfield']; } } $not_profile_field = array('avatarurl', 'profilepicurl'); foreach ($fb_field_map as $vbfield => $fbfield) { if ($profilefield && $target['value'] && $target['value'] != $vbphrase['n_a']) continue; if ($target[$vbfield] && pathinfo($target[$vbfield], PATHINFO_BASENAME) != 'unknown.gif') continue; if ($fbfield == 'affiliations') { if (is_array($fbuserinfo[$target['userid']][$fbfield])) { foreach ($fbuserinfo[$target['userid']][$fbfield] as $network) { if ($network['type'] == 'region') { $fbuserinfo[$target['userid']][$fbfield] = $network['name']; break; } } } } if ($profilefield) { if ($vbfield == ('field' . $target['profilefieldid'])) { $target['value'] = $fbuserinfo[$target['userid']][$fbfield]; break; } } else $target[$vbfield] = $fbuserinfo[$target['userid']][$fbfield]; } if ($target['avatarurl']) { $avatarurl = $target['avatarurl']; $show['avatar'] = true; } } } } function print_datamap_row($vbdata, $fbdata, $vbselected = "", $fbselected = "") { global $vbphrase; echo ' '; if ($vbselected) echo '[ '.$vbphrase['delete'].' ]'; echo ' '; }

Any ideas on how to fix.

when I disable the facebook connect - the forums work fine.

Cheers

I honestly presumed that this mod had been abandoned. As such I was annoyed because we've over 100 new members via facebook, so was feeling rather 'trapped' in using a mod that only half works.

I apologise for my outburst sllk.

Sillk...I meant to post this https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...32#post1768032 here.

I'm having the same problem as TriMe did when he installed this mod and already had the FB contact grabber. It has something to do with having to FB libraries installed and you have to comment out something on one of them but I can't figure it out. Can you please tell him what you did for TriMe so I can fix mine too.

Thanks in Advance.

i'm glad sillk is still maintaining the mod and finding out why some of the features aren't working. again, he is doing it for free and we have to realize that.

I hope some of the major problems are fixed soon. I'm very excited about having a facebook presence.

thank you

sllik I pmed you please respond

hey gang,
I'm posting here, too - same problems and issues, didn't realize they were affecting everyone since the FB update . .I'm following this 3.7 thread and the 3.8 thread, as I have it installed on both, different forums ... looking forward to a patch or update that will resolve it.

hey there can you possibly explain this in a bit more detials for dummies so I can get it patched until its fixed? thanks in advance!

Just do a search in the Facebook Connect templates for the term FB.Connect.showFeedDialog

Anywhere that appears in the templates replace it with the term null

Rather than posting a one line story this will make it post a short story, a short story is the one line story proceeded by a comment from you (Which you get to choose when publising the story). You can ofc leave the comment blank and it will post like a normal short story.

Seems to be working for me. When I post the thread appears as a story on facebook.

Is there a hack like thsi for myspace also?

it's not erroring and freezing - but its also not posting to my profile? I found 4 templates when I searched - it only posts to my profile when I selce tthe option always post and never prompt

Myspace uses Open ID. If you know that serivce you can. They also have dev API's.

Ok, I am a new vB owner and I am loving it so far. So, I follow the setup instructions to the "T" for FBC (2.0.5) to start working (template edits and all). Everything appears to be working from a cursory view; I see the FB icon below the login box and when I click it the FB api kicks in and I get the FB login (I haven't gone any further than this yet) - Yes I did all the FB setup per the instructions too!

The question I have is, when in FB Connect Options->Data Mapping->Map Facebook data, only the following vB fields are available in the dropdown to map:

Biography
Location
Interest
Occupation
Profile Picture
Avatar

Yet on the Facebook drop down there are :

Facebook UID
Name
Last Name
First Name
Facebook Profile URL
Profile Picture
Small Profile
Square Profile

I know in the instructions there should be some field mapping. First what fields should I be mapping, second does vB have all the appropriate fields and third, how do I add fields to match FB.

Thanks

Andrej770

Great Mod Silk - donation coming!

myykal. are you able to get this mod working for exisiting members? that is where i am completely stymied.

just updated here :) working fine apart from the avatar has stopped displaying, however this may be due to another hack, a std avatar works fine when set in user cp.


excellent mod.

Yes - It works!

I clicked the Connect With Facebook button, clicked the link to login with my existing user name, it logged me in, then I made a test post and it reported it on Facebook.

The only thing I didn't see was a post on Facebook saying that I joined, but that may be because I had joined already with a different user name on the forum.

Great Mod!

I would like to reinstall this.

Is it safe to say that the latest update fixed some of the main issues people reported?

I get an error at Step 5 of the setup

I just get an error "Sorry, there has been a page error"

I think it maybe because my host enforces firewall rules :mad:

Does this sound feasible?

Could somebody help and tell me what DNS name FB Connect tries to connect to

Thanks

VJ

got it going 100% again thx for the update!!

I tried it again using the fbConnect button and when I posted a new thread it actually brought up a dialogue to post a message to facebook. That never came up before. Thanks for the 2.05 fix!