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.

[paintballer.ie]

I have it installed and he seems to be working now.

How ever, how can users change the new feed settings in the future? They may have it on now but may want to turn it off in the future.

[Burnt]

Okay so I thought I had fixed.. I'm trying to use a different group for when you sign up using the facebook. I have it set to 12 which is for facebook users. And Facebook Users is the exact same as Registered Users however when those that sign in and they are in group facebook they get that they don't have access but if I move them to the Registered Users they can see it. What did I do wrong?

[Ted S]

Awesome mod. One of the best tools I've seen in a long, long time.

Quick question though. It looks like the user has to click the "Connect to Facebook" link every time they visit the site or it's assumed they aren't an FB user. Is this correct or am I missing something?

[paintballer.ie]

Originally Posted by Burnt

Okay so I thought I had fixed.. I'm trying to use a different group for when you sign up using the facebook. I have it set to 12 which is for facebook users. And Facebook Users is the exact same as Registered Users however when those that sign in and they are in group facebook they get that they don't have access but if I move them to the Registered Users they can see it. What did I do wrong?

I created a new usergroup based of registered members permissions and called it 'Facebook Registered'. This group had an ID of 24.

I entered 24 into the FBconnect settings.


At first when I signed up, it didnt not move my first attempt into the user group, but I went to bed and when I got it, it was there so there much have been some cron job done to update it over night.

[Burnt]

Well I figured why it wasn't showing. I have 3 pages for the portal and vbulletin. I didn't have the permissions setup for the usergroup to see it so i had to go to each one and set it up. It now works.

[Burnt]

Originally Posted by paintballer.ie

I created a new usergroup based of registered members permissions and called it 'Facebook Registered'. This group had an ID of 24.

I entered 24 into the FBconnect settings.


At first when I signed up, it didnt not move my first attempt into the user group, but I went to bed and when I got it, it was there so there much have been some cron job done to update it over night.

Your site has the same problems I did I signed in using my facebook account to yours and you need to setup all the permissions for the new usergroup. Dunno what portal you are using or what but you need to find the permissions and add the usergroup you have so they can see things.

I used vBA cmps and I had to go to quick permissions and click them on for the things I wanted them to see and now everything works like a champ.

[drsli]

Originally Posted by dadymac

i got that the message is too short error as well.

Me too. I noticed that, when I tried to post a message with quickreply.
I had to disable the template-edits for the newsfeed-capability. Now I can post again with no hassle. Maybe this can be fixed?

Anyway, thank you very much for this great addon!

[drsli]

I have to answer myself...
Unfortunately I forgot to search within the vb3.7-thread of this modification and there I found a workaround. The mentioned solution worked for me too in 3.81 (Firefox - I couldn?t test other browsers so far). I had to switch off the wysiwyg-mode in the editors and now it seems to work without hassle. No "message too short..."-error any more.

[jGas]

hi great mod!!

what about a Windows Live Messenger connector ?

thanks

[skylab]

Originally Posted by playSocial

Just do a search in the Facebook Connect templates for the term FB.Connect.showFeedDialog

Anywhere that appears in the templates replace it with the term null

Rather than posting a one line story this will make it post a short story, a short story is the one line story proceeded by a comment from you (Which you get to choose when publising the story). You can ofc leave the comment blank and it will post like a normal short story.

This didn't seem to fix the issue on my side.