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.

[jl255]

Tks Jedi, appreciative you took the time to assist.

For Q1, users are prompted to select their own nick if they are new upon connecting using their FB account. Why can't they log in using their nick if i choose to disable the mod in the future?

This also means that if FB decides to play punk and forbid external connections in the future, we'll all lose our members who have joined using FB connect?

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

No. You would either have to modify the accounts manually, or wait for someone to make a system that will port them over. As of now, there's no way to do that.



Are you still logged into Facebook? Could be a cookies issue.



Yes. In fact, that's one of the options ticked off in the first post under the mod info.



It doesn't make any edits to your post tables, so I wouldn't see why.



The same thing that happens to your existing registered users when you first created those compulsory fields, or when you create a new account through the Admin CP. They'll be prompted to fill those in the next time they log in.

[Wakey]

Originally Posted by jl255

Tks Jedi, appreciative you took the time to assist.

For Q1, users are prompted to select their own nick if they are new upon connecting using their FB account. Why can't they log in using their nick if i choose to disable the mod in the future?

This also means that if FB decides to play punk and forbid external connections in the future, we'll all lose our members who have joined using FB connect?

They actually can BUT the problem is the password as its a random string. If you can display them their Facebook proxy email address you can get them to use the Forgotten Password link and get the password.

The easiest way is to remove the if statements that check is they are a Facebook Connect user in the Templates relating to the password and email changing. Then they use the proxy email to get the password and then change the password and email address.

This will not prevent them logging in with their Facebook account, rather lets them login via a username and password or their facebook credentials

[jl255]

Originally Posted by playSocial

They actually can BUT the problem is the password as its a random string. If you can display them their Facebook proxy email address you can get them to use the Forgotten Password link and get the password.

The easiest way is to remove the if statements that check is they are a Facebook Connect user in the Templates relating to the password and email changing. Then they use the proxy email to get the password and then change the password and email address.

This will not prevent them logging in with their Facebook account, rather lets them login via a username and password or their facebook credentials

wow, tks for the analysis. pretty huge disadvantage of using this then. we cld potentially lose lots of members if FB decides that it was not profitable to them to allow external connections. we wld be at their mercy.....

tough decision :erm:

[Milez]

I agree that's a serious limitation to an otherwise killer mod. I can't take the risk myself either. I mean if I stopped using this mod, all my Facebook signed-up users would be out of luck. No way around that?

[benjaminkramer]

How do I make Facebook Connect only available for already registered Users?
So everybody have to do the normal registration and after that they can connect to facebook.

Where can I finde the files to translate?

Thx

Benjamin Kramer

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by Milez

I agree that's a serious limitation to an otherwise killer mod. I can't take the risk myself either. I mean if I stopped using this mod, all my Facebook signed-up users would be out of luck. No way around that?

Not until someone develops an export system.

[benjaminkramer]

Hi,
how do I forbid Facebook Connect registration (for not registerd users). I only want that existing users can connect with their account, and that they can login with facebook connect.

Thx
Benjamin Kramer

[jl255]

Originally Posted by benjaminkramer

Hi,
how do I forbid Facebook Connect registration (for not registerd users). I only want that existing users can connect with their account, and that they can login with facebook connect.

Thx
Benjamin Kramer

yes, that is a very feasible solution to a very serious flaw.

[benjaminkramer]

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[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by benjaminkramer

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He said he agrees with you.

But as it stands, I think the mod would have to be rewritten to accomplish that.