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.

[TNCclubman]

Originally Posted by sllik

BUT it uses a proxy email address it's a @facebook.com email address and the user will not receive emails unless they allow it.

Wow, that just makes this useless for me, too bad, damn! Its not a real account on your board where they receive invites etc from you later on as members of your site...

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

So where does the email go from your board notifying them that they received a pm?

[Vaupell]

Originally Posted by TNCclubman

Wow, that just makes this useless for me, too bad, damn! Its not a real account on your board where they receive invites etc from you later on as members of your site...

Nooooooooo!

:down: :down:

dont use so many oo's, it wont help you anyway.

Only reason im not installing is that it disables users to change their email account at will.

Suggestion : add a botton in admincp to enable / disable user email moderation.
and does this also remove email changeing for "normal" users ?
or is it only facebook users.

[TNCclubman]

The amount of o's I used was to mimic the sound when a cartoon falls down a canyon... sorry if it offended you Vaupell...

[Gamelobby]

Originally Posted by TNCclubman

Wow, that just makes this useless for me, too bad, damn! Its not a real account on your board where they receive invites etc from you later on as members of your site...

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

So where does the email go from your board notifying them that they received a pm?

Thats what i was afraid of..
Hell. NOT ENOUGH ooooooooooooooooooooo's


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So i was installing i get an error when i click on Step 5:
Go to FB Connect Options > News-Feed Templates and register default templates. Then Go to FB Connect Options > Settings and save your settings (even if you don't change anything).
I got this error msg:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /home/content/m/i/l/milo327/html/Forum/includes/facebook/facebook.php on line 38

[meeja]

This is ridiculously impressive. I can see this massively boosting numbers for vbulletin users.

Fantastic work.

[Vaupell]

Originally Posted by TNCclubman

The amount of o's I used was to mimic the sound when a cartoon falls down a canyon... sorry if it offended you Vaupell...

Lol none taken, was kidding around

Originally Posted by meeja

This is ridiculously impressive. I can see this massively boosting numbers for vbulletin users.

Fantastic work.

I gotta agree. allready vote for MOTM ewen if im not using
its simply worth it.. amazing work.

[meeja]

My facebook registrants are going into the "Registered Users" group and not the special FB group I setup, and I definitely specified the right id. Any luck/ideas folks?

[sllik]

Originally Posted by meeja

This is ridiculously impressive. I can see this massively boosting numbers for vbulletin users.

Fantastic work.

thanks you

Originally Posted by Gamelobby

Thats what i was afraid of..
Hell. NOT ENOUGH ooooooooooooooooooooo's


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So i was installing i get an error when i click on Step 5:
Go to FB Connect Options > News-Feed Templates and register default templates. Then Go to FB Connect Options > Settings and save your settings (even if you don't change anything).
I got this error msg:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /home/content/m/i/l/milo327/html/Forum/includes/facebook/facebook.php on line 38

You have php4 even if you think you have php5 Upgrade to php5!

Common people get with the times! Why would you still use php4?!
I feel like I'm improving to the php community by making you all upgrade

[sllik]

Originally Posted by Vaupell

:down: :down:

dont use so many oo's, it wont help you anyway.

Only reason im not installing is that it disables users to change their email account at will.

Suggestion : add a botton in admincp to enable / disable user email moderation.
and does this also remove email changeing for "normal" users ?
or is it only facebook users.

lol yeah the number of ooo's won't help . Sorry guys facebook is not giving out email addresses - and good for them!

Don't do the USERCP_SHELL & modifyprofile template edits if you want to allow the user to edit their email.

[Gamelobby]

Also this doesn't exist on my board..?

Template: USERCP_SHELL
Find:
<tr><td class="$navclass[password]" nowrap="nowrap"><a class="smallfont" href="profile.php?$session[sessionurl]do=editpassword">$vbphrase[edit_email_and_password]</a></td></tr>