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.

[mykkal]

is this working for anyone?

[Raun]

No, This addon no longer works completely. It uses deprecated methods to interface with FB Connect.

[Noli]

im getting this error when i try to edit the news-feed template:

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'FacebookRestClientException' with message 'Incorrect signature' in /usr/www/users/juyxtb/includes/facebook/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php:2403 Stack trace: #0 /usr/www/users/juyxtb/includes/facebook/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php(672): FacebookRestClient->call_method('facebook.feed.g...', Array) #1 /usr/www/users/juyxtb/admincp/fbconnect_registertemplates.php(87): FacebookRestClient->feed_getRegisteredTemplateBundles() #2 {main} thrown in /usr/www/users/juyxtb/includes/facebook/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php on line 2403

[hakansen]

i am getting that eror when i am trying to register news-feed template

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'FacebookRestClientException' with message 'action_links-href URL is not properly formatted' in /home/content/69/6658769/html/includes/facebook/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php:2403 Stack trace: #0 /home/content/69/6658769/html/includes/facebook/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php(661): FacebookRestClient->call_method('facebook.feed.r...', Array) #1 /home/content/69/6658769/html/admincp/fbconnect_registertemplates.php(34): FacebookRestClient->feed_registerTemplateBundle(Array, Array, NULL, Array) #2 {main} thrown in /home/content/69/6658769/html/includes/facebook/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php on line 2403

[Urban-Desi]

will there be an update on this or any other alternative facebook connect plugins some one can list here that are recommended other than this broken 1?

I have a large community and im loosing out on members visiting / signing up because of this broken plugin. If some one can fix this let me know or alternative plugins let me know!

Thank You.

[Kavadas]

Ugh, should have read the last page before I installed this POS mod...

/sigh

Getting an SSL error atm.

[jlew24asu]

I come to this website only a few times a year to check on new things. I can't believe people still try to install this. there are 90 pages of people who are complaining. and secondly, its amazing the mods still allow this thread to be here. so sad.

[Blueracer66]

Originally Posted by jlew24asu

I come to this website only a few times a year to check on new things. I can't believe people still try to install this. there are 90 pages of people who are complaining. and secondly, its amazing the mods still allow this thread to be here. so sad.

lol ikr?

[Kavadas]

Are there any currently functional facebook login add-ons for 3.8?

[Blueracer66]

Originally Posted by Kavadas

Are there any currently functional facebook login add-ons for 3.8?

I have been looking around but I haven't found one. They are all having issues.