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.

[Vaupell]

Originally Posted by Gamelobby

What is Facebook "UID" ??

UID = User ID

[Phaedrus]

Originally Posted by hymoo

I like this mod very very much although I see one very big disadvantage.
You decrease your new usersignups since almost everyone has a facebook account.

And I wanna store their database to contact now and then!

Or am I mistaking?

You are mistaken.

As they connect they create a new account if they aren't connecting to one they already have.

[Vaupell]

Originally Posted by Phaedrus

You are mistaken.

As they connect they create a new account if they aren't connecting to one they already have.

this allready have been cleared..

[Gamelobby]

Originally Posted by Vaupell

UID = User ID

Thanks.. but what is the difference between "Facebook UID" & "Profile page URL" ..?
Basically same thing.?


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Also, I think this needs to add an icon to your profile or something. some sort of more recognition on the forums.

[KevinL]

You could probably do that by just adding a rank image

[klemox]

This is a great MOD, thanks to the developer

One quick Q about RSS feeds: I was publishing my VBulletin RSS feeds on my blog page, however after installing the Facebook Connect MOD it got deactivated for some reason.

Any workaround on this?

Advanced thanks for your help.

[Vaupell]

Originally Posted by KevinL

You could probably do that by just adding a rank image

yeah added a usergroup image for my fb users,
including u 2 using this as
user group image -

yeah i know its ugly, but i needed something fast.

[TamCaVBoy3]

the location doesn't work, it shows as "Array" even though my fb profile said Tokyo Japan ?

[DotSauce]

Is this concept possible with Twitter logins through the Twitter API? That would be awesome.

[KevinL]

I would suppose something along the same lines could be written.

I don't know why VB doesn't include openID already default. That way it would probably make it easy to link everything together..