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]

Please, at least use the 'search this mod' function when having problems. I've posted WHY this issue happens at least half a dozen times, and the workaround to it.

This is not a mod issue, but an editor issue. Those users need to switch from the enhanced editor to the standard editor, then everything will be fine. There is a problem with the enhanced editor that causes ALL mods that use this editor to do this for whatever reason.

[milsirhc]

Is there a way we can allow the user to set a password after setting the nickname?

Reason being that if facebook is down, the user can still log in the traditional way.

[wolfstream]

Nope
Emails, passwords, all managed by facebook

[werewe12]

Originally Posted by wolfstream

Here we go again with this facebook garbage.

I'll see if I can get a heads up on what's up on their end, but this is really getting a bit ridiculous. 3rd time this week I've had issues with their setup.

This (again) is a facebook issue, not a plugin issue, though I agree completely that it's getting more than annoying now.

This is definitely very annoying now.

@ Wolfstream, any ideas?

[Quantnet]

does anyone has any number on how their registration/post count increase after using this mod?

I installed this a while ago but removed it after some issue.

[wolfstream]

Originally Posted by werewe12

This is definitely very annoying now.

@ Wolfstream, any ideas?

Not really. I'm trying to work on something that will allow the template edits to be turned off/on with a switch, but I can't release it publicly, sadly, as it would involve releasing this code itself.

[werewe12]

Please help a bro out :-D.

I would pay to have you go through my board and fix the issue. I'm getting fed up to the point where im about to uninstall this mod until it works right.

Another question,

My site consists of a wp blog and vb forum, What if I was to install fb connect for wordpress and bridge the users over to the forum?

- M

Originally Posted by wolfstream

Not really. I'm trying to work on something that will allow the template edits to be turned off/on with a switch, but I can't release it publicly, sadly, as it would involve releasing this code itself.

[Brandon Sheley]

Originally Posted by werewe12

Please help a bro out :-D.

I would pay to have you go through my board and fix the issue. I'm getting fed up to the point where im about to uninstall this mod until it works right.

you can post in the paid request section, or on the developers website, I think he offered installs for cash

[GoodOmens]

Originally Posted by werewe12

Please help a bro out :-D.

I would pay to have you go through my board and fix the issue. I'm getting fed up to the point where im about to uninstall this mod until it works right.

Another question,

My site consists of a wp blog and vb forum, What if I was to install fb connect for wordpress and bridge the users over to the forum?

- M

Is there a mod that will bridge WP users to vbulletin? I only know of doing the opposite (which is what I do for my site).

[milsirhc]

Originally Posted by wolfstream

Nope
Emails, passwords, all managed by facebook

Is it possible to have a fixed password for all FB connect new user?

Or can this be manually be resetted by the admin?