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.

[StormBreaker]

I`m having a problem, when i try to register the default template in Step 5..

Step 5:
Go to FB Connect Options > News-Feed Templates and register default templates.

I get this error:

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'FacebookRestClientException' with message 'action_links-href URL is not properly formatted' in /home/public_html/site.com/wm/includes/facebook/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php:2403 Stack trace: #0 /home/public_html/site.com/wm/includes/facebook/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php(661): FacebookRestClient->call_method('facebook.feed.r...', Array) #1 /home/public_html/site.com/wm/admincp/fbconnect_registertemplates.php(34): FacebookRestClient->feed_registerTemplateBundle(Array, Array, NULL, Array) #2 {main} thrown in /home/public_html/site.com/wm/includes/facebook/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php on line 2403

How can i solve this error?

Thanks in advance.

[jacki]

News-Feed Templates >
Register Default Templates ]
eror

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'FacebookRestClientException' with message 'action_links-href URL is not properly formatted' in /home/xxxxx/public_html/includes/facebook/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php:2403 Stack trace: #0 /home/xxxxx/public_html/includes/facebook/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php(661): FacebookRestClient->call_method('facebook.feed.r...', Array) #1 /home/xxxxx/public_html/admincpyrm/fbconnect_registertemplates.php(34): FacebookRestClient->feed_registerTemplateBundle(Array, Array, NULL, Array) #2 {main} thrown in /home/xxxxx/public_html/includes/facebook/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php on line 2403

[nightfish]

Originally Posted by jacki

News-Feed Templates >
Register Default Templates ]
eror

I have the same error!

[eduardosexp]

Originally Posted by StormBreaker

I`m having a problem, when i try to register the default template in Step 5..



I get this error:



How can i solve this error?

Thanks in advance.

Helpme whith error

[nightfish]

still no news

[lilfields10]

Now we just need a Twitter connect, or something like Disqus's log-in system that connects many social networks to vBulletin.

[imedic]

There is a modification working here where you can connect with gmail, yahoo, AIM .... and Facebook.
It seems to work.
Does anyone know where you can find it as I have searched for it and didnt find?

[ShawneyJ]

Originally Posted by lilfields10

Now we just need a Twitter connect, or something like Disqus's log-in system that connects many social networks to vBulletin.

Ip.Boards have Twitter connect built in, it rocks!!

[Tenth Doctor]

Is there something like that available for Twitter integration with vBulletin?

[MortysTW]

Does this work for 4.0 ? Trying to do a search in this thread but it's saying 4.0 is to short a search term. Sorry if this was asked already.