Janrain Engage for vBulletin
 

Janrain Engage for vBulletin - Beta Released

vBulletin is the world leader in forum and community publishing software. Their customers have created vibrant communities for over 10 years on vBulletin?s stable and mature platform. Developed with security, powerful administration features and speed in mind, it serves over 70,000 online communities.

User's of the vBulletin CMS can now make it quicker and easier for their visitors to register, sign-on, and share by adding the Janrain Engage for vBulletin to their site. This release has been developed using the attest version of vBulletin and should be compatible with vBulletin 4.x or greater.

Features included in this plugin:
Site Registration & Login via a Preferred Social Network or Email Provider
Give your visitors the option to sign-in to your site with their existing credentials from a social network or email provider such as Facebook, Google, Twitter, Yahoo!, LinkedIn, SalesForce, Windows Live ID(XBOX, Hotmail, Messenger), Orkut, MySpace, AOL and others (Over 20 Supported Networks).

Social Sharing with Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Yahoo!

A customizable widget to share articles to multiple social networks simultaneously. Users can select up to four social communities such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Yahoo for publishing. On average, each post will generate nine referral clicks back to your site for each post.

We are very excited to announce the Janrain Engage for vBulletin - Beta and will continue to rollout new features and functionality in the coming months. We?d love to hear your feedback so we can continue to improve upon our product.

Change Log:
v0.0.1 Initial Release.
v0.0.2 Updated icon set, consolidated lookup_rp request, new non-modal display options.


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Tell us about Problems / Get Support

-Janrain
www.janrain.com

And for Vbulletin 3.8 ?

Looking good as usual, thanks guys! :)

Not working:(

How does this play with the default facebook connect, should we disable it?

Interesting stuff, thanks. But, what are the cons? I mean, what's in for your company? Or other said it doesn't look like you make this only for a better world. Is a link set to your site, do you share/collect user data?
Edit: Ok, just saw on your website that you offer different tariff plans based upon monthly login numbers.

I would hazard a guess that they will force you onto this...

Pricing Schemes
http://www.janrain.com/products/engage/pricing

Also you can see a demo on a wordpress site i found...
http://foreclosurefraudnews.com/

I'd like to know
- Does it play nicely with the intergrated facebook connect?
- what happens to existing accounts, if I uninstall the mod?
- Is the 2,500 limit new registrations per year or a hard limit?

Thanks for the feedback guys. I was the developer on this project.

@edenx we don't have any plans for supporting earlier versions of vBulletin. Feel free to submit your request to feedback.janrain.com

@NTT we'll release a final version as soon as we're confident that the plugin works in a variety of server environments. We've tested it internally but there's always some unexpected results when you release something into the wild.

@gamerzhut can you provide some details over at support.janrain.com? This is precisely the feedback we're looking for - making the product more stable.

@nitra1000 it should work fine with the integrated facebook connect, although the accounts won't be mutually accessible. An account created with Janrain Engage (even if Facebook is the selected provider) won't be accessible by authenticating through the integrated facebook connect, nor the other way around. If you uninstall the mod the existing accounts remain but because they have no passwords the users will no longer be able to sign in.

The Basic/Free plan allows for 2,500 users per year

So once over 2,500 registered users, a board is forced to start paying or loose those 2,500 members? In my case that means over $2,250 per year.

No, my apologies for not clarifying. The user accounts remain in-tact, and therefore can be assigned working passwords through the standard "Forgot Password" feature in vBulletin which resets the password via email. If you use the Janrain Engage plugin and decide at a later time to disable or uninstall it you should create a sticky post or email users notifying them that they will need to go through this process to be able to log in.

I thought this would be good to utilize, but can't get it to work....

Can you explain the problem you're running into?

Like woopra did.

nice idea, but the part where you may have to pay

why not just use openID for the logins, it's already around?

I must be missing something about this mod and the associated business model ... :confused:

Regards,
Doug

I use this on my site, for the Wordpress blog section.
If It could get real email instead of proxy email it would make things easy.
I run Vbulletin 3.7 with no problems as do many people.
Making a plug-in for that would be amazing!
It is real simple they make money if you sign-up for their plans, they are a business the free plans work great for small sites. Larger sites may pay for the service, but as simple and easy as this site is to use I don't see a downside.

These are some tips for members who are curious about Janrain in general.
I don't have the vbulletin plug-in installed but desperately want a 3.7 version.
This was the #1 requested Plug-in to janrain by a 100 to 1 margin from website owners.

Positives:

• One Click Registration
• Increased sign-ups
• Reduced spam
• Very Functional

Downside:

• Free version has low limit of users
• Doesn't work with vbulletin 3.7

Not available on vb4 though...

I got this response...

Warning: require_once([path]/packages/janrain-engage/include.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/global.php(29) : eval()'d code on line 8

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/jpm/public_html/forums/packages/janrain-engage/include.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/jpm/public_html/forums/global.php(29) : eval()'d code on line 8

When i enabled it, and tried to load a page, anyone know why?

The mod does work in vB 4.1.3. I've just done some testing and have verified that it does not work in vB4 prior to 4.0.4 because of a template parsing error in the vB core, but I developed the mod in 4.1.2 and have tested it on 4.1.3 as well.

JPM, the error you're seeing appears to be due to the scripts inability to find the files in the upload/packages directory of the mod package. Please verify that you have followed the instructions in the package's Install.txt file on how to upload the packages/janrain-engage directory to your vBulletin installation root.

Octavius- I was testing on localhost, but just got it set up on a public environment. You can see it working on 4.1.3 here: http://vbforum.bhamrick.kodingen.com/forum/

This server doesn't support the Human Verification feature of vB so I disabled it here, this has nothing to do with this mod's 4.1.3 support.

What happens when someone use one medium (for example say facebook) to register and the next time clicks another (say google)?
Is there a way to identify that it is one & the same user? Can I add a field to enter the google id, yahoo id, etc which this plugin can levarage?

Regards,

On registration an error will be thrown if a user attempts to create a new account with the same email address, however the plugin adds a new menu item in the User Control Panel called Social Identities in which users can add multiple social accounts to their profile and use any to authenticate with.

this mod not work on vbulletin 4.1.2 :D
but work on 4.0.x
i test it with 4.0.8 work 100% but doesnt work on 4.1.x :D
maybe develper will update this version :D

I'm the developer for this mod, and I developed it using 4.1.2, so I can assure you it does work. Can you describe what you're experiencing that makes you think it doesn't work? I've tested it on 4.1.3 as well.

hello thanks for reply my post :D

here is my error
App ID (Auto-Populated) and all doesnt update :D
i attacht my problem
maybe anyone can resolve my problem :D

I think you need to set the api details up for each of your providers on janrain,then it should auto populate.Simply adding the janrain api won't do anything if you haven't set anything up.

hello
i have edit my providers but it's still not shown populated and all :D

When you click "Save" do you get an error message? The mod should call the Janrain servers to get values for each of the other fields and populate them automatically, and if it cannot it should throw an error. Do you have access to your server's error log?

hello
when i click sava nothing error :D
the i check my error log nothing error to :D

Hi,

Using facebook & google to register, jainrain provides me given name & family name. How can I map these to fields in my profile?

Regards

I'm using vb 4.1.4 and am testing this mod and so far I have had no issues. Though I would need some more features before I put it on a live forum.

are it's work on your board ?

hello i ask again
i have install it but on my main domain
ditusuk.com

but, i install it on different doman it work fine
anyone can help me ?

Can you check if the PHP OpenSSL extension is installed? This is a requirement for this mod as all of our web services operate on encrypted https connections.