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.

[matthewhotdude]

Originally Posted by mikeB

me too - hopefully a facebook connect bug they will resolve

anyone else?

*Edit
Seems to be fine now

[wolfstream]

Originally Posted by 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?

No

Originally Posted by IntellectToday

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

See this post

Originally Posted by IntellectToday

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

This mod does not work with other mods using the Facebook api, including openinviter. You need to pick one, but you can't have both running.

Originally Posted by matthewhotdude

Seems to be fine now

Originally Posted by masterwebguy

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

Remember, a good deal of this comes from Facebook, and resides on their servers. Because of this, you will from time to time get a number of errors that will resolve themselves.

[ComputerVitals]

Installed and seems to be working. But I do have 1 thing I would like to see if we could change.

When I post a new thread, it will post to face book. But it will only show the thread title.
Is there a way we can have it post (on facebook) a small excerpt (so may words or letters) then a read more link?

[matthewhotdude]

old member who associate their account with facebook, should it post there threads on facebook? I'm sure it used to pop up and ask. Now it only does it if you sign in via the facebook button

[ComputerVitals]

I did notice another issue.

When I posted the link, It went to facebook. The title of the thread shows, but when you click the link it takes to you the forum. Not the actual thread.
Anyway to change that?

[RoxyTheImpreza]

When I try to import the XML file I get a:

MySQL Error : MySQL server has gone away
Error Number : 2006

any ideas?

[wolfstream]

Originally Posted by matthewhotdude

Now it only does it if you sign in via the facebook button

That is how it is supposed to act.

Originally Posted by ComputerVitals

When I posted the link, It went to facebook. The title of the thread shows, but when you click the link it takes to you the forum. Not the actual thread.
Anyway to change that?

Again, how it's supposed to act. I've responded to why, earlier in this thread.

Originally Posted by RoxyTheImpreza

MySQL Error : MySQL server has gone away
Error Number : 2006

That's a server error, not a plugin error. Contact your server admin

[masterwebguy]

An update to help you wolfstream: I did figure out the issue.

If you add a "Fan Page Block" to any page with facebook connect plugin you need to make sure to use your API, not the auto-generated API that facebook gives the "block".

Enjoy, got it fully working.

[werewe12]

This is crazy, I installed this earlier today and it worked perfectly. People were signing in from Facebook, but now it does let anyone sign in. Says they got the wrong login. After I cleared my cache it acts like its letting you log in but when it refreshes your not logged in. Help!

[wolfstream]

Originally Posted by werewe12

This is crazy, I installed this earlier today and it worked perfectly. People were signing in from Facebook, but now it does let anyone sign in. Says they got the wrong login.

Again, remember that this is a plugin that relies on external content. I've seen strange behavior, from posts not being able to be made to popup errors. It will eventually clear itself out (usually within an hour or so).

If it worked, it will work again