Thanks for a great mod! Installed without problems in about 1 hours. I had a lot more trouble with the Facebook Apps portion of the install than with the vBulletin side but I muddled through and the mod works beautifully on my test forums. I will complete the install on my production forums later today.

Double, triple check your settings. The mod doesn't do that if it is setup properly.

Something to keep in mind:
I say this every few posts, but it is very important, so it bears repeating countless times.

IF you have installed this mod, do yourself a favor and put the users in a secondary usergroup, not your primary one. This will make debugging issues with users just that much more easy, and it will make it that much easier to recover things if you have issues, say, with the mod not running any more, or with facebook changing things (doubtful, but possible). This way, if something happens, you can easily identify the affected users and set up notices, flags, smoke signals,hand gestures based on the usergroup they're in! It also makes it easy to send out newsletters without bouncebacks (the facebook email address doesn't like normal mail), just leave that usergroup out!

Just a tip that I share every once in a while.

Just a quick confirmation, clarification:
Short tags are pretty standard on servers , but there is a workaround for this:


Step 1: Open up fblogin.php and includes/functions_fbconnect.php in your text editor
Step 2: look for Step 3: change to step 4: re-upload both files to your webserver where they belong.

Please note:
This WON'T affect most people (short tags are very, very common), but it may affect you.
How do you know if you're affected? Go to yourforumurl/fblogin.php . If it spits out text gibberish, you need to follow those steps. I'd upload fixes to that, but then we get into the whole redistribution of code garbage and I'd really rather not go there.

Also, another tip, because it's come up a lot in the past few months on installs I've done.

This is the #1 cause of all problems. Follow this exactly. Don't set it to http://www.forumdomain.com/ if your forum url is http://www.forumdomain.com/forum/

Common Problem #2?
This should probably be set to your forum URL

Hi all,

If you are using vbadvanced and create a new Usergroup for Facebook Connect. Make sure you check that the new usergroup has access to your vbadvanced pages.

Does this work on IE 6?

Can someone give me a list of what one can put between "{*" and "*}"

???

The default templates have the following:

{*actor*}
{*threadurl*}
{*threadtitle*}
{*bburl*}
{*bbtitle*}

Are there more possible...?

Thanks...

FYI: The FaceBook connect mod does not work with the Zoints Anonymous Posting mod because it sends the info prior to the ZAP mod changing the userid, effectively "outing" the anonymous posted in the FB notice.

I actually need some help making it work, if anyone has the ability to help me out. :) For now, I've updated the fbconnect_new_reply_notification template to not include the username, but the problem is that if the FIRST poster clicked anonymous and they are a FB Connect user, when someone replies to the thread, the replier's FB notices says that they've sent a notification to XXX which is the user's name, and of course, that person posted anonymously, so I wouldn't want that happening! Ideally, I can just insert a check to see if the Anonymous Posting box is checked and if it is, change how the notices are handled.... ideas?

Many thanks to wolfstream for assisting me with installation. He fixed a few glitches that I was having on my forums so if you need help, definitely ask him!

thanks

im having an issue with this mod, a security issue...

i linked me current existing account (an admin account) to my facebook account, which worked out alright...

then i have reports of another user telling me that when he logs into his facebook account, it logs him into my account (the admin account) automatically. i have no idea what the reason for this could be, but currently disabling the mod until i figure out whats wrong.

when users link their facebook account to their pre-existing account, what are the security features to ensure that they are the proper owner of that account?