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.

[abroad]

cant find this in navbar template:

<!-- / login form -->

can I also post the code of the end of the template or does this not work then?

Insert After:
<!-- fbconnect -->
<center>
<span class="fbconnect" style="height:21px">
<img src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/images/loaders/indicator_white_small.gif" alt="Connect with Facebook" />
</span>
</center>
<!-- / fbconnect -->

[RvG2]

Originally Posted by abroad

cant find this in navbar template:

<!-- / login form -->

can I also post the code of the end of the template or does this not work then?


Insert After:
<!-- fbconnect -->
<center>
<span class="fbconnect" style="height:21px">
<img src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/images/loaders/indicator_white_small.gif" alt="Connect with Facebook" />
</span>
</center>
<!-- / fbconnect -->

maybe it is in the header

[Ryuk]

Uninstalled, this mod creates some heavy errors on users which connect using fb, and it took me a while to restablish my database...

[Lone Gunman]

uninstalled too. are there other hacks its not compatable with? cant open new PMs with it installed. couldnt quite get it to work completely either. maybe im just doin something wrong. i may consider hiring creator to install it.

vb3.8.1
php5.2.3

[Lone Gunman]

i set up a temporary test board with nothing added on except this mod. i still having same problem. do i need to submit app to facebook directory for it to work?

also is this pic from fb connect options > news-feed templates, the correct screen i should be seeing? or should there be something on it to click on?

on the fb connect options > settings, are the 3 feed template IDs at bottom automaticly get info entered or do i need to manually put something in there and where do i get that info at?

is my problem on the facebook app settings side maybe?

[skol]

The problem i have is when this template change is made no one can make new threads..
And clicking on post's just gives a blank page..

$fb_prepare_submit
<form action="newthread.php?do=postthread&amp;f=$forumid " method="post" name="vbform"<if condition="!is_browser('webtv')"> onsubmit="return fb_prepare_submit(this, this.subject.value)"</if>>

[stonner]

Originally Posted by Gamelobby

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

i think this problem is not solved yet?!

[djxcee]

GREAT MOD!

Expect a donation soon

[sllik]

Originally Posted by Ryuk

Uninstalled, this mod creates some heavy errors on users which connect using fb, and it took me a while to restablish my database...

what kind of problems did you have?

Originally Posted by Lone Gunman

uninstalled too. are there other hacks its not compatable with? cant open new PMs with it installed. couldnt quite get it to work completely either. maybe im just doin something wrong. i may consider hiring creator to install it.

vb3.8.1
php5.2.3

If you get the professional install service the mod is guaranteed to work.

Originally Posted by skol

The problem i have is when this template change is made no one can make new threads..
And clicking on post's just gives a blank page..

double check ALL your template edits.

Originally Posted by stonner

i think this problem is not solved yet?!

does your arcade page have the footer template?

[sllik]

Originally Posted by soulface

I'm still getting the same db error..

I think there is conflict with PhotoPost vBGallery 2.4.3