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.

[Skydiver10]

Not working with Internet Explorer anymore either.

Keep getting a PHP script file to download, when using Firefox?

[Fastbird]

Maybe I missed it in the last 80 pages, but is there a way to link an existing username in vbulletin to an existing facebook account?

[Skydiver10]

Yes, install the add on:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=219464

[pmcnamara]

Since the developer hasn't been online in months.. is it assumed this is a dead mod now ? at least unsupported ?

[Fastbird]

Originally Posted by Skydiver10

Yes, install the add on:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=219464

Yeah I installed that and all it does is show who has their account linked, there are no options to add facebook info to an existing vbulletin account.

[Skydiver10]

You can use it to get their name that they use on facebook, search that name on facebook and then look at their information page on facebook, scroll down and see their email.

Edit that users email in VB before you approve them by deleting the long email address that facebook gives you. Then they will receive the welcome email and you can send them emails! :up:

[championcycle]

Awesome application. many users on my forum use this. so much easier to sign up and faster.

[stunod]

forgive me if this has been posted once before. I just can't seem to find a fix for this!

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '{' in /homepages/1/d174344245/htdocs/StunodRacing/includes/functions.php(5721) : eval()'d code on line 9

[Budweiser]

I'm looking at Step 1 of the installation instructions and it says: Set the Callback URL to your vBulletin url (example: http://www.siteurl.com/forum/)

Im not sure which one this is exactly... It's got to be one of these highlighted below but which one??

Authentication tab:
--- Authentication Callback URLs
------ Post-Authorize Callback URL
------ Post-Remove Callback URL

Profiles tab:
--- Info Section
------ Information Update Callback URL
--- Profile Publisher
------ Publish Callback URL
------ Self-Publish Callback URL

Canvas tab:
--- Required URLs
------ Canvas Callback URL
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.
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[saviola8x]

Please Update for vb4
thank so much