Integration with vBulletin - Facebook Connect - Allow your users to login with their Facebook account (for 3.8)

Staff Note: Moved to Graveyard - this will never work now that the old style facebook authentication is no longer available.


Facebook Connect
This add-on allows your guests and existing users to login with their Facebook account through Facebook Connect.

There is NO NEED to upgrade or reinstall if you already installed this mod for 3.7

Upgrade to 2.0.6 so that users with the new super long IDs will be able to login.


This mod conflicts with PhotoPost vBGallery!
Quick fix:
Disable the following PhotoPost vBGallery plugins:

• Userinfo Merge
• Integrate Postbit Showthread

Benefits of Facebook Connect

• Users can simply login with their Facebook account without going through the registration process.
• Increase user interaction and your traffic through Facebook notifications and news-feeds!

Features
Facebook users will be able to receive Facebook notifications when:

• There is a reply to their thread or a thread that they're subscribing to
• They receive a new PM

News-Feed will be published on to the user's wall when the user:

• Logs in for the first time
• Replies to a thread
• Creates a new thread

Fetch user data from Facebook
Fetch data like name, location, profile picture and use it on your forums! (NOTE: Some data may not be available for some users)

Automatically befriend user's friends
If any of the user's friends are also registered on the forum, they will automatically be friends!

Professional Install/Upgrade/Support Services
Want this mod professionally installed? It's guaranteed to work on your forum! Download the archive and see INSTALL.html/UPGRADE.html for more details!

Troubleshooting
Server Requirements:
PHP 5

If you get an error:

The Facebook Connect cross-domain receiver URL http://www.SITEURL.com/xd_receiver.h...%220.699%22%7D must have the application's callback URL http://www.SITEURL.com/forums/ as a prefix. You can configure the callback URL in the application's settings.

Means that there is something wrong with your callback URL. Your callback URL must be where xd_receiver.htm is; so when you enter [callbackurl]/xd_receiver.htm into your browser you should see a blank page (not a 404 page not found error or anything else).

If you get a continues this means there is a javascript error. Make sure you've done all the template edits correctly (especially footer & navbar). Clear your cache and reload the page.

If nothing happens when you click the Facebook Connect button make sure your callback url domain is the same as you forum domain (the one set in your forum settings) - more specifically make sure that there is a www (or isn't) in both domains.


Many more features may be implemented in the future so keep checking for updates.

[wolfstream]

Originally Posted by RoxyTheImpreza

hmmm...well I guess I will never figure it out, lol. any help with the picture above with the screwed up page?

Your phrases didn't get imported. Try reimporting the XML

Originally Posted by butabi

I'm trying to install this mod on a fresh installation of the latest version of vBulletin. For whatever reason, when I try to import or upload the XML file I get an error message "invalid file specified." This is the first mod I've ever tried to install, is there something I'm missing?

edit: I went in and looked at the XML file, it looks fine. I reuploaded it a few times to make sure, as well. I can try either option on the import screen and I still get the same result. Any ideas?

Your server isn't parsing the XML properly, the product XML itself is good.
Make sure you meet the requirements in the first post.

Originally Posted by matthewhotdude

anyone else having this problem.

If you disable this mod then people can't post on the forums.
I disabled it and went to try to post a message and it keeps saying

The message you have entered is too short. Please lengthen your message to at least 1 character

This has been answered a number of times in this thread. This is not a mod issue, but an editor issue. The 'enhanced editor' has known issues with multiple addons. Switch to the 'standard editor' in your profile, and you'll have no problem.

I have no idea why the advanced editor does this, but it does this with almost every single plugin that interacts with posts.

[carmichael1973]

Originally Posted by carmichael1973

That's correct, I haven't made any changes in a month or so. Also, I've noticed the problem only exists with IE. I hate that browser but unfortunately I must support it.

I'm trying to see what could be the problem but I'm not seeing anything abnormal. Just a hang on that xd_receiver.htm and then the error follows after about 30 seconds.

Just an update to my issue... I haven't done anything but the error is gone today. Maybe it was FB making some changes.

[matthewhotdude]

Well why isnt it a mod issue if it is the mod that has caused this?
It's strange as it has only started happening today and only on 1 user on the forum

[wolfstream]

Originally Posted by matthewhotdude

Well why isnt it a mod issue if it is the mod that has caused this?

The mod isn't causing this, the editor is.
Like I said, this happens with almost every mod that uses the posting interface, the exact same error, the exact same problem, yet if you switch editors, the error goes away.

Something, somehow, inside the advanced editor is messed up and causes this.

[pmex]

is there a way for the application to invite all your facebook friends to log into your website or to become a fan of the application?

thanks
tom

[masterwebguy]

i've had this mod working for a week, now it just stopped working, I didn't change any settings.

Now when i hover over the connect button it just shows the link http://mysite.com/index.php# (my site replaced with my actual site of course)

[masterwebguy]

Update: It works if you log in with normal accoutn and then press "logout" the screen that says "go back to what you were doing" the button works there... but not on main page.

On mage page i get a script error:
Line 2409
Char: 2
Error: 'FB' is undefined
Code: 0
URL: http://honleague.com/forums.php

I just re-confirmed: When I'm on page: http://honleague.com/login.php?do=login

it works.. just not on main forum or the vbadvanced portal @ http://honleague.com/index2.php

[IntellectToday]

Can someone give me an example of the facebook app settings?

Something is wrong here. When I have Facebook Connect enabled, and you visit my forum - the page finishes loading and it's nothing but a blank page. Why is this? =\

Edit: Apparently this error is appearing:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class Facebook in */puretalkforum.com/includes/facebook/facebook.php on line 37

[matthewhotdude]

This web page has a redirect loop.

The web page at null has resulted in too many redirects. Clearing your cookies for this site may fix the problem. If not, it is possibly a server configuration issue and not a problem with your computer.

I am getting this error now when posting on the forms, this comes up in the box that normally asks if you want to publich to facebook

[mikeB]

Originally Posted by matthewhotdude

This web page has a redirect loop.

The web page at null has resulted in too many redirects. Clearing your cookies for this site may fix the problem. If not, it is possibly a server configuration issue and not a problem with your computer.

I am getting this error now when posting on the forms, this comes up in the box that normally asks if you want to publich to facebook

me too - hopefully a facebook connect bug they will resolve