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.

[Nitro212]

Originally Posted by Nitro212

I have having an odd problem I am sure some of you might be having as hell. I was having the "message too short" problem but I think I fixed it by resetting my secret code in facebook and updating it on my forums. Now I am having an issue with the newsfeed. Everytime I make a post or reply and it asks me if I want to publish on facebook everytime I press a button lik "Never Publish" or Always Publish it doesn't respond. Then if I close the box it sends the message. Hm? Also does it with the regular "Publish" "Skip"

Bump

[ArchangelX]

This is brilliant just for the sheer fact of instant registration through Facebook. Holy moly...great mod! I'm not using the news feeder stuff (my users would be annoyed by it, methinks), and it's installed and working great, so good show!

Hope you guys work out your problems...

[Uasuforos]

Thanks, working great in my forum

[busybeeburns]

This is a fantastic mod, however after brutally testing it over the last 24 hours, I have major issues with its neat compatibility with vBulletin. If anyone can help or discuss these I'd be grateful. These are:

1) Changes to Facebook or vBulletin in the future may render this mod incompatible, relying then on support from the developer to bring this mod back in line; if hundreds of administrators are relying on support from a sole developer who decides they are no longer bothered to upgrade for future facebook/vBulletin releases, this will have huge implications for incorrect login functions for potentially millions of registered members across the vBulletin communities.

2) Facebook partially holds registration details of members, eg. email addresses and passwords. If this mod was ever ditched, I could in theory have thousands of members unable to log in to my forum unless each account was manually altered in admincp. Registered members are unable to do this themselves as changes to email addys or passwords would not be possible as vBulletin would not recognise their original/old details. A logistical nightmare for administrators of large vB communities.

3) It appears that facebook Connect users cannot be contacted via mass email or mass PM add-ons as such users are not found within the database. This effectively renders the use of these important functions useless in the long-term. Especially important should the need arise above where they must take action to continue to log in to the messageboard.

4) I would like to see fblogin.php altered to accept Connect for exisiting vBulletin members only, or tweaked to go via a vB registration process where an vB email address and password can be added. The problems 1-3 above wouldn't exist if this was an alternative installation.

Apart from those important issues the mod is perfect!

[madotds]

Originally Posted by busybeeburns

2) Facebook partially holds registration details of members, eg. email addresses and passwords. If this mod was ever ditched, I could in theory have thousands of members unable to log in to my forum unless each account was manually altered in admincp. Registered members are unable to do this themselves as changes to email addys or passwords would not be possible as vBulletin would not recognise their original/old details. A logistical nightmare for administrators of large vB communities.

4) I would like to see fblogin.php altered to accept Connect for exisiting vBulletin members only. The problems 1-3 above wouldn't exist if this was an alternative installation.

Apart from those important issues the mod is perfect!

This is my main issue with this mod. I have asked the question but had no awnser Even just adding a redirect to a page where email and password must be entered would help.

I am afraid until these issues are addressed I can see admins using this mod having big issues in the future.

[ArchangelX]

Hmm...very...very good point that I hadn't thought of. Ouchies...

[powerful_rogue]

Ditto.

Ive got this set up on my test site and its working like a dream, however im now having second thoughts due to what appears the developers lack of time/interest.

All it takes is a facebook update and this mod could be useless, leaving members unable to log into the forums.

[mnlawson]

Originally Posted by Uasuforos

Thanks, working great in my forum

Hi - are you able to ban Facebook Connect users from your bulletin board if they spam?

Thanks!

[Linkz0r]

Hi, I've just installed and edited all the necessary templates as it has said in the install guide, but when I click connect to facebook button underneath login it doesn't pop up with the facebook login box, it links to http://www.club-gamer.com/# Any Help with this would be appreciated thank you.

[wolfstream]

Originally Posted by Linkz0r

Hi, I've just installed and edited all the necessary templates as it has said in the install guide, but when I click connect to facebook button underneath login it doesn't pop up with the facebook login box, it links to http://www.club-gamer.com/# Any Help with this would be appreciated thank you.

Double check your facebook app settings. The addon states that you shouldn't use www.domain.com for both settings, but it should be done. I had this problem with the domain settings in the facebook app stuff myself.

Basically, make sure that the app settings (on facebook) point properly. That should solve that.