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.

[jacobi]

It's indeed a legal issue, particularly when you're providing an educational community for high school-age students!

[drsli]

Since the facebook-activity and the forum-activity are in synchronicity somehow with this mod, the facebook-rules and the forum-rules should be in complete synchronicity too to meet any legal issue IMO. Anyway: it should be possible to inform any facebook-connected guest/user afterwards about the forum-conditions and be safe with uprising legal outcomes.
But I´m fine with a "agreement before joining" too for sure.

[WildAmbitions]

Nothing happens when I click the Facebook Connect button. My callback url domain is the same as my forum domain (the one set in your forum settings) - more specifically, there is a www in both domains.

Any other ideas as to what the problem is? Please help.

[dnicu26]

Originally Posted by GetGamer.com

I've installed this mod (just updated to the latest version), and I've got a question about how this mod is supposed to handle existing forum members who want to link up their Facebook account.

What should happen
A person with an existing forum account clicks the Connect with Facebook button. They authorize my Facebook app. They are then presented with an option of selecting a nickname for the forum, or linking to an existing forum account. They choose existing, enter their forum credentials and are now signed in.

Posts that they make are updated on their Facebook Wall.

They leave my site, shut down their computer for the day. The next day, they sign-in to Facebook. Then in another browser tab, they open my forums. The forums should detect that they are signed-in to Facebook and automatically sign them into the forums, using their original forum account (which is now connected to Facebook).

What actually happens
Every time an existing user visits the forums, if they don't select Connect with Facebook, they get logged in the "old way" (no Facebook connection). And if they do select Connect with Facebook, they are prompted (again) to select a nickname or choose an existing account. This should not happen, right?

Is there something wrong with my install of this mod, or is this the way it "works?" Because this seems very wrong.

For what it's worth, this mod seems to work great for Facebook users who don't already have a forum account; the problem is really only with existing forum users.

If you'd like to check it out, I'm using the mod at this site: http://www.bigblueball.com/forums/

Yes, they get logged in the old way with the old details but that account will still be paired to Facebook and the user will still get the alerts and notifications on Facebook. I just checked this and it's working fine. I don't think it's meant to sign you into the forums automatically.

[paintballer.ie]

Ok, mod works great and associates accounts, however...

How do members turn off the stories being feed to facebook once they initially set it to 'always do this'. If it driving them mad as some are getting up to 90 notifications per day.

Help!!

[tpearl5]

Originally Posted by paintballer.ie

Ok, mod works great and associates accounts, however...

How do members turn off the stories being feed to facebook once they initially set it to 'always do this'. If it driving them mad as some are getting up to 90 notifications per day.


Help!!

In facebook, they need to click on:

• Applications (bottom left) -> Edit (top right of applications box)
• Show - applications that are 'authorized' (your site should be in that list)
• Edit Settings for your site
• Set to whatever person wants (4 options)

[paintballer.ie]

Originally Posted by tpearl5

In facebook, they need to click on:

• Applications (bottom left) -> Edit (top right of applications box)
• Show - applications that are 'authorized' (your site should be in that list)
• Edit Settings for your site
• Set to whatever person wants (4 options)

Cheers, that did the trick

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

hmm... first install and have some problems:

* no errors but its only publishing pms, replies and new threads to the NOTIFICATIONS area of fb. Nothing is appearing on the wall.


any ideas what's up with that? sooo close. yet so far

[smnet]

Originally Posted by dnicu26

Yes, they get logged in the old way with the old details but that account will still be paired to Facebook and the user will still get the alerts and notifications on Facebook. I just checked this and it's working fine. I don't think it's meant to sign you into the forums automatically.

This will not pair an EXISTING vbulletin user with facebook. Read this thread there are loads of people for whom this is not working. If it IS working for you then you are one of the lucky few.


Can other people with this issue please confirm this so we can (hopefully) get the developer to fix it?

[Code Monkey]

Thanks Ted S, that saves some time.

I personally don't use Facebook so it's a tough mod to test. I set up an account just to use this. One problem I have is that there are far more options to set up an app than are listed in these instructions. It would be nice if every option is covered.