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.

[TNCclubman]

Originally Posted by mykkal

Can facebook connect pass email addresses as well? New users get a newsletter. I need to be able to send that.

This mod wont register the users email on your system. I'm also in the same shoes as you.

[mykkal]

Originally Posted by TNCclubman

This mod wont register the users email on your system. I'm also in the same shoes as you.

Are there API calls for facebook connect that do this?

[rapidphim]

When you create the appllication on FB, don't you have to submit it?

[K4GAP]

"Go to the Canvas tab and set the Canvas Page URL (to whatever you want)"

I'm lost! What Canvas tab?

[TNCclubman]

Is it possible to make a FRIEND FINDER tool with this

ie. "click here to find any Facebook friends that are also members of 'yoursite.com' "

Dont need any of the other features... just a tool that after you click it, BAM, a list of your facebook friends that are also members of my site get listed and you can 'add all' as friends at once and a friend request gets sent to all of them.

Is this possible?

[gweb]

Hi there,

First off - I DL'd the 2.0.3 from the other thread (3.7) but I'm on 3.8 and wonder should I download the 2.0.3 here (is there any difference)

Also - I have vBadvanced installed and if logged in through the FBconnect - none of the vBadvanced pages work; only the forum pages work.

I have seen that others have encountered this but I cannot seem to find a conclusive answer with regard what to do..?

Please help.

[externalaw.com]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW

www.externalaw.com is now part of this party!
I dont like all the template edits.... but hey... what a marketing this is!

[externalaw.com]

Originally Posted by GaryT

I'm lost! What Canvas tab?

In your vbulletin management for this add-on, on the left you see some tabs, one of these is canvas!

[sbsforum.us]

Took me a minute but i got it! Great add on!!!

[-=Sniper=-]

Originally Posted by mykkal

Are there API calls for facebook connect that do this?

nope API call to get the user email. (only the proxy email address, which is like a forwarding email address)