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]

Where do they get emailed when someone pm's them on my board?

[Gamelobby]

Originally Posted by sllik

thanks you



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

Ok.. so apparently my hosting is PHP4, but my databases are PHP5 :erm:
Is that possible..!?

Thanks for the UserCP Shell answer before i asked it. lol

[Gamelobby]

Also why do i have this button that links to my Forum/FAQ..?



*edit*

Ok so it doesn't go to my FAQ anymore, but i dont think this is working still.. how do i connect my accounts.!?

Also this shows up in my Arcade..!? (but not in forums)

[Bisha]

What about double users?

Is any way to merge users already registered with their Facebook account?

[Ryuk]

Thank you very much Silk, the sharethis thing was uninstalled, and I nominated this for MOTM!

[RedTrinity]

Originally Posted by Bisha

What about double users?

Is any way to merge users already registered with their Facebook account?

Yes, if you use the "Connect With Facebook" button to login to the site, it lets you login with your FB details and then the option (other than creating a new account) to link it with your forum account - by then requesting your forum login details as well.

You only have to do this once and then every other time you use the FB button, you only have to use your FB details to login and it automatically logs you into your forum account too.

HTH

[skol]

Problem.. I've been trying to get it too work for over a week now.I have applied the template changes to one skin.With the mod disabled if i go to make a new thread i get this..

The message you have entered is too short. Please lengthen your message to at least 4 characters.

Yet i can still post as normal on other skins.Now if i enable the mod i can't get into any post's on any skin just get a blank white screen..

Nice Mod by the way..:up:

[dadymac]

i got that the message is too short error as well.

Facebook UID is showing up on profiles, URL is not. anyone else getting this?

[KevinL]

Works flawlessly

Thank you

[Vaupell]

hmm cant create facebook application i get this error

Validation failed.
Callback URL is not a valid callback URL

-- SOLVED EXCLUDE HTTP infront now.. :P