Integration with vBulletin - YAFB - Yay! Another Facebook Bridge

The add-on has been updated to reflect Facebook new policy starting October 1st (read more here). Basically this is a maintenance update for user of this add-on from the past. The add-on now supports vBulletin 3.8.x only. In this new version, there are only the basic features: register and login (some simple sharing too). It keeps old settings so you don't need to re-configure.

How to update (this is important):
1. Disable the add-on in AdminCP
2. Upload files in the package (make sure you disable the add-on before uploading)
3. Import the xml in the package, choose Yes to rewrite.
4. Re-enable the add-on
5. Done

Just remember to disable the add-on before uploading files and you will be okie.

A little note for attachment downloads:
- YAFB v1.4 had been downloaded 36 times before I removed it
- YAFB v1.5: 4 downloads, YAFB v1.5.1: 26 downloads, YAFB v1.6: 29 downloads, YAFB v1.7: 22 downloads, YAFB v1.8: 48 downloads
- YAFB v1.9: 150 downloads
- YAFB v2.0: 31 downloads, YAFB v2.0.1: 10 downloads, YAFB v2.0.2: 49 downloads, YAFB v2.1: 55 downloads; YAFB v2.2: 1210 downloads; YAFB v2.2.5: 661 downloads

[mrpaint]

Originally Posted by pinkcow

thanks Mr Paint! you made my day

You are welcome

[doubleclick]

Hello -

I'm using v2.2.5 with vb 3.7.3

I tried the synchonize Avatar from Facebook option last week, and it worked as expected. Then this morning, I changed my Facebook photo, and expected my avatar to synch automatically that is the way I setup my profile.

When it didn't after 10 hours, I went into my user control panel, selected the "Synchorize Avatar from Facebook" option, and clicked "Save Changes". The result was a vbulletin error page with this message:

Invalid URL

Tried it many times with the same result.

In the "Options" area, where it says I am recognized, my facebook photo thumbnail shows up there.

What now?

[dbigras]

Hi there,

This is definitely one of my favorite modules for vbulletin. But my board is in french, so I have a lot of trouble when my board is sending to Facebook.

I got around the notifications problem, by translating the phrases to french and converting french characters with &. For example é = é

That was annoying, at best, but I got it to work.

But it's definitely not working when people publish short stories to Facebook, or when Thread titles have french characters. When it encouters a french character, the title is cut, the story is cut, and it looks REALLY bad in Facebook.

My second problem is with Newsfeed. It doesn't write on my friends newsfeed. It only writes on my wall, but unless you visit my wall, you won't see that I wrote something on my board.

It would be nice to have this work, and configurable only to publish new threads AND/OR new replies to the newsfeed, in case people don't want to flood their friends newsfeed with replies, but only new threads.

Thanks for helping out.

[Nadeemjp]

hey will you be considering to upgrade for vb4? cause i dont wanna loose this mod

[KURTZ]

Warning: tempnam() [function.tempnam]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File() is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/fniv/:/tmp:/var/tmp:/usr/local/lib/php/) in [path]/includes/class_upload.php on line 276

Warning: fopen() [function.fopen]: Filename cannot be empty in [path]/includes/class_upload.php on line 282

i've got this error ... :S any fix?

[mrpaint]

Originally Posted by doubleclick

Hello -

I'm using v2.2.5 with vb 3.7.3

I tried the synchonize Avatar from Facebook option last week, and it worked as expected. Then this morning, I changed my Facebook photo, and expected my avatar to synch automatically that is the way I setup my profile.

When it didn't after 10 hours, I went into my user control panel, selected the "Synchorize Avatar from Facebook" option, and clicked "Save Changes". The result was a vbulletin error page with this message:

Invalid URL

Tried it many times with the same result.

In the "Options" area, where it says I am recognized, my facebook photo thumbnail shows up there.

What now?

Sometime it sucks, have you tried again?

Originally Posted by dbigras

Hi there,

This is definitely one of my favorite modules for vbulletin. But my board is in french, so I have a lot of trouble when my board is sending to Facebook.

I got around the notifications problem, by translating the phrases to french and converting french characters with &. For example ? = é

That was annoying, at best, but I got it to work.

But it's definitely not working when people publish short stories to Facebook, or when Thread titles have french characters. When it encouters a french character, the title is cut, the story is cut, and it looks REALLY bad in Facebook.

My second problem is with Newsfeed. It doesn't write on my friends newsfeed. It only writes on my wall, but unless you visit my wall, you won't see that I wrote something on my board.

It would be nice to have this work, and configurable only to publish new threads AND/OR new replies to the newsfeed, in case people don't want to flood their friends newsfeed with replies, but only new threads.

Thanks for helping out.

I sent you a PM about encoding. And about publishing options, they are available in UserCP > Facebook Bridge > Edit Options. Check them out

Originally Posted by Nadeemjp

hey will you be considering to upgrade for vb4? cause i dont wanna loose this mod

Yes, of course

Originally Posted by KURTZ

Warning: tempnam() [function.tempnam]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File() is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/fniv/:/tmp:/var/tmp:/usr/local/lib/php/) in [path]/includes/class_upload.php on line 276

Warning: fopen() [function.fopen]: Filename cannot be empty in [path]/includes/class_upload.php on line 282

i've got this error ... :S any fix?

Your server is running on Safe Mode with this restriction, maybe you should ask your hosting provider to turn of Safe Mode for you. FYI, Safe Mode is a feature of PHP, which has been planed to be removed soon enough, more information: http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.safe-mode.php

[sailnet]

is anyone else getting this error message?

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in [path]/fbb/hook_postbit_display_complete.php on line 77

I get it on ever thread that's displayed.

[kether1]

Originally Posted by dbigras

It would be nice to have this work, and configurable only to publish new threads AND/OR new replies to the newsfeed, in case people don't want to flood their friends newsfeed with replies, but only new threads.

Thanks for helping out.

I second this request. Most people that enable this feature, turn it off after they discover it 'spams' their facebook. New threads only with the option of replies if one so desires.

Thanks.

[KURTZ]

hi MR Paint, i've just asked to my host, and he just told me that my server isn't in 'safe mode' ...

[doubleclick]

Originally Posted by mrpaint

Sometime it sucks, have you tried again?

I've tried everything. In the cp, I tried changing the "Avatar -Source" size.

In FaceBook, I deleted my avatar and selected several different ones as my avatar. Still no change from the time of my last post.

Disabled the whole thing, re-enabled it. What is so perplexing is that as I said before, my FB avatar thumb shows up fine on the Options page.

Also other FB users on my site are displaying their Profile Pic.

Any suggestions for me to try?

Thanks,
dc