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.

[shuwarriors]

I've noticed a few problems with new sign-ups using this mod on the user list.

It seems to not be copying email addresses from facebook properly as they're showing in vB as;
apps+120645780945.1097285792.9ddaaa8a110c806dbfd9d edc489d1e7a@proxymail.facebook.com

is there a fix for this or is it related to connection problems for the user?

[villor]

Goood, i love Vbulletin.

[moonclamp]

Originally Posted by matt4

He only stays in one rank and can't be promoted it seems. The lack of having their email is pretty upsetting from a marketing point of view.

So how would that affect something like the donation mod, or paid subscriptions that move you into other groups?

[Wakey]

Originally Posted by shuwarriors

I've noticed a few problems with new sign-ups using this mod on the user list.

It seems to not be copying email addresses from facebook properly as they're showing in vB as;
apps+120645780945.1097285792.9ddaaa8a110c806dbfd9d edc489d1e7a@proxymail.facebook.com

is there a fix for this or is it related to connection problems for the user?

That email is correct. To prevent a malicious application harvesting peoples email address facebook will only provide you with a proxy address to email. When you mail that address from the application it will forward it to the email the user has attached to their Facebook account. If they remove the app or block the mail sending access rights it will block the email thus protecting the user

[mattwmc2001]

Frickin' cool!

Easy install as well!

I did change the <? to <?php just in case though.

One Question:

What am I supposed to do in regards to Step 7:

Step 7:

Check FB Connect Options > Settings for new settings and FB Connect Options >Data Mapping to map Facebook data

I go to >Date Mapping and it lists -- vbulletin fileld and facebook field with options under each one.

Am I supposed to do anything with that?

Thanks! Awesome Mod!

[dinodonk]

Feature request:
1. save/cache user fb data in local for performance reason?
2. option for user to enable/disable notification.

[Smoky26]

Hello,

With the Facebook Connect Mod, is that the user can also connect normally?
If yes, what is the password?
Are they obliged to always connect with their facebook account?

Thanks

[hippyTRIBE]

Installed and voted...gr8 mod

Heh,

I thought this doesn't work until i realize it works well with the default style but not with others.

One my fav style is located in a subfolder, meaning:

public_html
-- admincp
-- clientscript
-- images

-- myfav_style
------- avatars
------- buttons

and so on..............

So i suppose i have to change few path names in some files. Anyone kind enough to point me what to do?? I'd really appreciate your help....

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by hippyTRIBE

Installed and voted...gr8 mod


Heh,

I thought this doesn't work until i realize it works well with the default style but not with others.

One my fav style is located in a subfolder, meaning:

public_html
-- admincp
-- clientscript
-- images

-- myfav_style
------- avatars
------- buttons

and so on..............


So i suppose i have to change few path names in some files. Anyone kind enough to point me what to do?? I'd really appreciate your help....

You don't edit any paths or files. You have to make the required template edits to each style that you use.

[Wakey]

Originally Posted by Smoky26

Hello,

With the Facebook Connect Mod, is that the user can also connect normally?
If yes, what is the password?
Are they obliged to always connect with their facebook account?

Thanks

They can but its not easy for them to do and requires a few template hacks as they will need to find their Facebook email proxy address so they can go through the lost password process. You will also obviously need some template hacksto enable the changing of the password for Facebook Connect users.

I won't have time to get round to it today but I will try and post my template edits here over the weekend (if I can remember where I made them as I forgot to write them down) to help you out.