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.

[Wakey]

Originally Posted by fxfred

To all those with the issue of the button not working on the first page only

I removed my facebook fans box and it works fine now.

I have checked some of your sites and you have the same so remove the fans code and see if that works.

What I need to know is how do we add the fans code back to the template without it knocking out the Facebook connect ability?

You will need to Iframe the fan box for it to work alongside Facebook Connect. Check the Facebook Dev wiki on how to do this

[cbiweb]

Okay, I went ahead and installed it, it works perfectly, but I'm baffled by one thing:

Part of my testing it was to log in with my forum username. Now I can't login under any other name but THAT one. I can't test logging in with my FB name because it auto logs me in with my forum name now.

I cleared my cache/cookies/history, and still the same. This happens in IE8 and Firefox 3.5.5. How do I fix this?

[mesasina]

How make customize icon smaller of Facebook connect, i try edit script but know how..

thank you

[cbiweb]

Originally Posted by cbiweb

Okay, I went ahead and installed it, it works perfectly, but I'm baffled by one thing:

Part of my testing it was to log in with my forum username. Now I can't login under any other name but THAT one. I can't test logging in with my FB name because it auto logs me in with my forum name now.

I cleared my cache/cookies/history, and still the same. This happens in IE8 and Firefox 3.5.5. How do I fix this?

Is there a solution for this? I need an answer.

[championcycle]

ok this facebook is on my site but u have to pay for the application??? or how does this work

[championcycle]

when you click on the facebook on my forum it dosent do anything why is this? what am i doing wrong i followed the instructions.

[iflymyhelishigh]

I need to get the Connect with Facebook out of my navbar. It conflicts with my style.

What code do I need to take out?

[Skydiver10]

Installed but what does this error mean after trying to use the facebook connect button?

Does anyone know why this happens after clicking the facebook connect button, and then when it asks for a nickname I put one in and after hitting the Log in button I get this:

Fatal error:

* Please complete the required field "Email".

Unable to proceed with save while $errors array is not empty in class vB_DataManager_User in [path]/includes/class_dm.php on line 810

Any ideas? I saw this on another post, but cannot seem to find it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance...hope someone can shed some light on this error.

[messengermatt]

I have this installed on 3.8.4 but im hoping you code for VB4 as i will no doubt use it on there :-)

[Skydiver10]

Ok figured it out.....Replaced the fblogin.php file from the 2.0.6 version.

It's actually in the Upgrade directions when you download the 2.0.6. ...my bad!

I had the older file still on the server from the 2.0.5 version.

Now let's test it out...............thanks for this mod!:up:


Edit:

- Is there a way to extract an email from the facebook users?

- An already registered member uses the facebook connect, they now have 2 different accounts! = the original registration, and the new nickname one they just created through facebook connect! Is there a way to keep the members that already have an account on my forum who use the facebook connect, from creating a second username? Or is the only option to merge the usernames, and if the usernames are merged into one, will the same user be able to login through facebook connect without having to create another new nickname?

- How will I know if a new user using facebook connect is a spammer?

- Is there also a way to make the apps email from facebook connect smaller in the users awaiting validation? It makes the screen really wide.


Any feedback is greatly appreciated.....