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.

[skol]

Originally Posted by wmlvb

I like this idea but I have about a dozen usergroups created and they have access to certain private areas and features based on those usergroups. I used the registration system for them to tell me what usergroups they should belong to. I still do further screening for private areas. Is there a way to force people who log through Face book have to make an introduction in our community introduction forum and state how they are affiliated with our discussions group before we allow them to start posing and/or see the forums as a registered user? Thanks

You would have too create a new usergroup specifically for facebook..How you set permissions for that usergroup is up to you..How can you force someone to post?You can entice them but not force them.

[skol]

Originally Posted by TNCclubman

I was going to install this when I realized there is no way to contact any of the people that register this way... Basically, its a great mod for people that just want traffic to come to their site, but the actual memberships are 100% of no value to anyone that wants to make money with their website showing potential investors how many members they have.

Im so sad, I was soooo looking forward to installing this. It may be great for some, but to me it isnt.

Absolutely no offence to the coder, it really is a great mod. I still think its mod of the year.

Why can you not contact people? If you send a mass email then those who are allowing emails on facebook will recieve the email from facebook will they not?

[TNCclubman]

Their email is not stored on your board. If you pm them on your board they do not get notified. Its basically a one way member. They can come to your site, but they receive zero messages, notices from you or your board. There is no way to communicate with them unless they decide to come back on their own to your site.

I would install this in a second if immediately after the mod copied all their info from facebook, if it went to a new screen that said "please enter your email" and provided a rectangle which then stored their email in their new account on your board.

[KevinL]

Well if you create a new usergroup and make the new usergroup update their email then you would be good to go? No? I'm asking because I would like to know myself...I just haven't really played with it yet haha

I would really like to know if anyone else has come across this though? Or am I the only one? haha

Originally Posted by KevinL

I just noticed, there is an uncached template when viewing a thread. fbconnect_qr_prepare_submit this is throwing my queries through the roof! For some reason it's adding over 8 queries to my showthread. Which is weird... hahah

[Goomzee]

Originally Posted by Goomzee

everything is done but i make newreply or new thread it's show me 1 message about you must have 10 words where i made thread more then 10 words but it still show same message plz help

help plz showthread,newthread,reply thread face coding is show me error

[skol]

Originally Posted by Goomzee

help plz showthread,newthread,reply thread face coding is show me error

I had this problem many times, in the end it was my mistake forgot to upload the functions_fbconnect.php to the includes folder.

[Firestar.chkn]

Hi Sllik,

Thanks for an awesome mod! Good job! I installed this mod last night, and it went relatively smooth! After a couple of double checks, everything was running perfectly.

Now, last night, I had a couple of problems with the message too short issues that other people has also mentioned here. I then went and double checked all my template edits, and redid them all, especially the newthread, newreply and SHOWTHREAD ones. After a while, it just fixed itself, though, and I deleted my message posted here for some help.

However, a couple of hours ago, my users started complaining that they once again cannot post in threads using the quick reply to a thread. Full reply works perfect. I then went again, and double checked all my template edits, and confirmed that they are fine. What bothers me, is that there is sporadic problems with this feature now... Here is one user's post.

testing... 1 2 3

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This is weird.

What i did was, I typed 'testing... 1 2 3', and it tossed me the 2chars error. I hit the browser's back button, typed in something completely different, and it posted 'testing... 1 2 3'

:?

^this posted using 'advanced'

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and if i reply to my own post it appends it to the rpevious, which i admit is pretty cool

The applying new post to existing post is another addon that I installed, so that's not to do with your mod. However, it could likely be messing around with your mod. The mod is called "Doublepost Prevention".

My forum URL is:
http://forums.prophecy.co.za

Your addon is installed on the default skin, and you can log in with your facebook id. Lastly, here is a thread where you can test in. This is obviously all assuming that you can get some time to help me. I do appreciate it if you can.

Thanks


EDIT:
Fixed this by uninstalling the doublepost prevention. I see there's a doublepost prevention plus from another author, but haven't tested to see if that works. I don't think it's worth it. So, nothing needs to be done from my side. It works perfectly. Thanks!

[Derekclarke]

I posted this on the 3.7 thread...

I have installed it on 3.8 and used the 2.03 file... but get the following error... Please can someone help out?

I get this error when i Import the product.

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '{' in /home/site/public_html/includes/functions_fbconnect.php on line 79

it also stops anyone being able to view any threads.

Any Idea how to resolve?

Thanks
Derek

[Wakey]

Originally Posted by TNCclubman

Their email is not stored on your board. If you pm them on your board they do not get notified. Its basically a one way member. They can come to your site, but they receive zero messages, notices from you or your board. There is no way to communicate with them unless they decide to come back on their own to your site.

I would install this in a second if immediately after the mod copied all their info from facebook, if it went to a new screen that said "please enter your email" and provided a rectangle which then stored their email in their new account on your board.

It stores a valid email address. Sending an email to that address goes to facebook and is then forwarded to the email address that person has in their facebook account

[Potlocator]

Hey guys, installed this mod this morning and it works slick. Only issue I'm seeing so far is that I no longer am able to show the "new images" from Photopost on my Forum Home. Anyone else having this issue? I know Photopost is projecting a 2.5 release any day now but who knows if that has anything to do with it.