Can someone clerify something for me please.
What exactly are these options for

Display a Facebook Block in Member Info page - Off
Display posts from friends - Off

does it pull wall data and places it in a tab or box into the forum members profile page?
When turned on does it work for you guys?

I cant understand this mod i have it installed but i cant understand what your supposed to put into the facebook bridge options under the forum manager.

Can someone put this into simple easy to understand instructions?

Watch the videos they tell and show you exactly what. This is seriously a 2min install for the most part.

i installed it ok, its just the options for it are made for complicated people as i dont understand them lol when your configuring it.

Allow to publish posts in this forum to Facebook?
Allow to publish Prevent publishing (turn off or disable, based on Global Setting) Turn off publishing options (if they are shown) Disable publishing completely
Page ID to publish feed when new thread posted
Normally, your page URL is in the form of "http://www.facebook.com/pages/Your-page-name/1234567890", so the Page ID is the sequence of number "1234567890"

Page Owner Facebook UserID
This Facebook Profile must be connected with a forum Account with Offline Access permission granted!. If you wish to publish to Page using Page Account itself, ask the Page Owner to visit this page: http://acereptiles.co.uk/forums/prof...p?do=fbb_pages. To get the Facebook UserID of a user, you can visit his/her Profile, move your mouse over "Send [name] a Message" (under Profile Avatar), copy the link, it is in the form of "http://www.facebook.com/gigaboxx/dialog/MessageComposer.php?id=987654321", so the Facebook UserID is "987654321"

It's that i dont understand its not as easy as you may think especially as it comes across as double dutch to me :s

Oh the options. Yeah the options could be alot better described.

Allow to publish posts in this forum to Facebook?
Basically allow ot denied people from being able to transmit their post to facebook in a certain forum

Page Owner Facebook UserID
OK this requires Account with Offline Access permission granted. Pretty much when connected through facebook the top 4 options need to be on for real usage of this mod.

Alot of my members are having trouble understand the options page. I just posted a thread to them to let them know which options to turn on and then which ones to choose which they want.

I've a problem, I've been having trouble with the avatar issue as well, but the thing is, I'm not getting a syntax error, but instead I get everything but the avatar section to show.

here's a screenshot to what I am talking about:
http://i45.tinypic.com/2dnbs4.png

Is there a way to fix that?

Edit: apparently everything seems to working now with Facebook avatar syncing turned off.

You failed to read the first post of this thread.
[KNOWN ISSUES]

1. Editing Avatar in vBulletin 4 caused error. Temporary fix is available: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...79#post1963679



Come on people read.

This works great on vb 3.8.4, however now when a user register the manual way, it will display a white screen at the "addmember" page.

The verification email still got sent to the user though.. just that it displayed a white screen and not the usual notice message.

Anyone got the same problem?

I'm running 4.0.1 on linux
i installed the 3.2 and i have finally followed this thread from the beginning to the end. I love the this mod concept and it has great potential for my site. i don't have the buttons showing either under my navbar.

My issue is that when i go to settings and hit the FB Bridge options link i get the big button. When i hit it a pop p window comes up asking me to connect. i hit connect and nothing happens. It is as if I did not hit it. I optimized and repaired all tables and waited a good hour as i read this thread and it still does the same thing. Does anyone else have this problem? Can anyone shed any light on this?


New development: 1/28/10 4:09am
I shared a post and then went back to the setting and the options link and i got this:

http://www.blackberryspot.com/Kingdo...%20problem.jpg

With no button to connect. I have no buttons on my forum at all. The only one that shows is the one in settings...

More info: 1/28/10 1:00pm

i notice that the buttons show up if you are a guess and not a registered member. Once I login then the buttons disappear... Even then when i logout and try to get connect i still have the same problem with the pop up windows asking to connect and when i push the button to conneect nothing happens. It just sits there as if i didn't push the buttons...

I'm assuming the support is no more...

For your question about nothing happens. See that button that says Save Changes in your screen shot?

Press it.

The page will reload with your settings page.


For the question of you assume support is no more. As I tell every one if you read the thread you would see that the developer will not be on till February.

i appreciate the reply...

I hit the button save changes and it reloads with a message saying that There is no connection... I read the whole thread and I must have missed that searching for answers to my specific problems, sorry about that...

The Developer has limit online access for the time but alot of members here are providing support as well for the product. Try logging in to facebook again and then to your site. I have 1 member with the same issue or atleast similar and have yet been unable to figure out exactly why.

I'm having the same problem - I haven't found a solution yet.

I didn't get a parse error but it looks like that file was the culprit for a white 'addmember' page as well. I'm guessing the developer was adding a feature for a runbox affiliate system and didn't finish testing it. There's a couple phrases and an e-mail that were added in the last release as well. "setting_fbb_runbox_affiliate_id_desc" describes it, but I don't see this in the settings anywhere - regardless runbox_hook_register_addmember_complete.php was triggered when it shouldn't have.

I just had to disable this mod.

For some reason out of the blue last night, it was causing members to get stuck on page 1 of every thread? The page change buttons weren't working.

Narrowed it down to this mod being the problem... disabled it alone, and the problem went away immediately.

Though not sure how or why it would have been causing it :confused:

Anybody else had this happen?

First I ever heard of this problem. Just tried looking at any multi-page thread and I don't have this problem. Very odd. I have alot of SHOWTHREAD effected mods and still don't have this one.

Yeah it only just started happening late last night out of the blue. Hadn't done any changes with the forum either, at least not for a few hours!! So I don't know what triggered it off, or why.

Other users started reporting the problem, then it started happening to me an hour or so after the first user had posted about it. Hasn't happened again since I identified the problem as being caused by this mod, and disabling it.

Very odd alright :confused: But I do hope the problem can be identified/fixed somehow as I really do like this mod, and would like to keep using it on our forum...

Do you think something you edited hours before this happened could interfere with the facebook modification?

Cause I do not have this problem and I have tons of custom code with in my forum.

I'm really not sure, BBR-APBT! What sort of change would cause it to do this, do you think?

The fact it all started happening a few hours later (when I wasn't doing anything) and then at different times for different users, is really bizarre. The first reported incident was at 10.30pm, with about 2-3 reported after that... I didn't see them until 12.30am, that's when it started happening for me, too. I had been online and regularly posting that entire time.

Its a pity the developer isn't around at the moment, maybe he would have some ideas on what I could check for troubleshooting.

Try turning all all your mods except for this one and see if the problem is still there.

I uninstalled the mod and then after a couple of days reinstalled it and It worked for me. I still have the missing button issue and the panel does not show up in my profile, but it is working for the time being... Anxiously awaiting the updated release...

Are you certain that your navbar (or header) template contains the requisite hook?

What is runbox, and why is that in the mod, more importantly How do i disable it. If you need money ask for donations. I am certain people will gladly donate for a functioning mod. But don't go sneakily advertise affiliate links.

Go in to your plugins manager, and uncheck the box for that plugin(it is plain as day). Press save at the very bottom of the page.

I did disable the mod as soon as i noticed this source of concern, and i didn't intend to sound harsh in this regard. It just seems highly suspicious that this "feature" is added to the product but not to the product description. Were i not changing the phrases into understandable English terms (work which i wanted to help the dev with) I would simply not have noticed this near spamvertisements existence, thing that might be against the guidelines of vb.org modding, if not that just plain unethical. I must stress I appreciate the effort the developer has put into this plugin.

Had i to chose between giving $50 or advertising a service i never heard of and risking users privacy, i'd give the $50 in a hearthbeat.

So in this regard, Mrpaint. My point of view : it does not make sense to deceive and trick your client?le. How are you going to regain the trust of the people that when finding this out will likely disable the mod, and think twice before installing anything you coded.

Frankly whats next ? Backdoors in mods; fine as long as nobody finds out?

Disable the plugin for that file not the whole product. I already mentioned this in this thread and he will not be on till some time in the next week or so. Chill out and let him answer before bashing him. Maybe it was for his site only and he accidentally added it into the release for public.
vBulletin.org also knows this is in the mod as I reported it to them. I did not find a affiliate ID in the code. So it does not work it just causes a error.

it looks like it ' s really hot here . regarding the runbox affiliating plugin , one of my friend suggested that website for me since his old modification doesn ' t work when using in combination with yafb . i tried to make it for him but i haven ' t had enough time to test it properly so i left it out in the latest release , no word is given in description or no option in admincp is available ( i removed them )

so , to vespillo , i do understand your concern regarding your members privacy so it ' s your decision to use yafb or not but please do not say it that way . thank you

also , i really appreciate your help , bbr-apbt and zaiaku . i will come back soooon

ps : to vespillo , if you are kind enough , you may find the paypal link somewhere in the first post . i ' m pretty sure that vbulletin.org has built in donating feature : d

mrpaint, please check your e-mails as it is urgent! :)

Recap for people who aren't searching through the thread.

Before posting problems make sure you are using the latest version. Version 3.2.1

Everyone concerned about Runbox
Just incase everyone starts wondering about this runbox thing. Don't worry your members aren't being signed up to anything else. As going through the code the plugin doesn't seem to be active. Possible something for future use. BBR-APBT has already stated that the plugin can be deactivate without hurting anything. Just go to your plugins page in your Admin CP, CTRL+F runbox, deactive the 1 plugin, save and your done.

Everyone who's not seeing buttons and the auto template edits
If you not aware auto-template edits usually depend on something that is already present in the target template. If you have altered a template there is a chance that you made have remove something so that the auto-template edit doesn't take place. Always try in a default template to make sure.

Everyone with errors in Edit Avatar page
BBR-APBT posted the fix here.

Different email address issues
I have members that are different email address and has not been a problem. If you did a test account try clearing cache/cookies. Remember to do a total uninstall of the app on facebook. Please remember facebook changes coding like the weather.

Connection/Notification Issues
OK this seems to be a browser issue. As I've tried the mod in many browsers. Remember facebook isn't too found of firefox many times. Google chrome works great but sometimes doesn't get sent to facebook. Any problems I have had in this area has been on the facebook site.

Auto changes in settings
I have one member that avatar gets sync when she decides not to have it sync. She'll turn off the feature and about a week later it turns itself bacc on. I have no being able to reproduce this but I think this issue comes up with 2 or more people using the same computer. So say PersonA has their own account on your forum and facebook and then Person be has their own accout on your forum and facebook, and they using the same computer account this problem can arise.

Excellent post Zaiaku :D

Currently playing about with this on my test site and was getting some strange errors and actions ... thanks to your post I now realise this was because I was using Firefox at the time. Have now tried doing the same actions in IE and its working exactly as it should :D

That was the first thing I did, to work out if it was a mod causing it... and sure enough with the plugins disabled, the forum worked fine. Turned them on, the problem was back again. So I started trying to narrow it down to the problem one.

Turning off just the Facebook mod alone fixed it in the end.

What they meant was to turn off all plugins and leave only the facebook modification active.
Then see if you have the problem. If you do not have the issue with only facebook modification active, Then it is another mod interfering and not the facebook modification.



P.S. Great post Zaiaku

Ahhh..... gotcha ;) Thanks for that suggestion. I'll try it tomorrow (about to head to bed lol) and let you know how I go!

hey mrpaint, i am having errors, alot of errors whenever someone accesses the albums.
i am posting one of the errors as below:

with 3.8.4 there wasnt such error.
cna you cure it?

What version of the mod are you using?
Can you verify in myphpadmin there's that column is in your db?

quick question guys... in the forum manager option where "Page ID to publish feed when new thread posted", how do i set it up so it posts to a group page wall or application page wall instead of the owner wall?

tnks in advance

I was wanting to publish it to a Facebook Page instead of my profile. But that will inquire a bit more coding. I did not suggest it yet because it is best to have 100% working code before adding more features to the code. More features = more bugs to iron out.

How ever I am looking at writing a addon to this modification to do just that. Since Mrpaint gave permission to write addons for anyone. I figured I would take that up.

hey BBR, glad to hear that its not a setting i missed somewhere. and thank you for adding to this addon. since your thinking of doing a addon can you also add an option to post in group page too? that would be great.

thanks again BBR