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.

[Armyqt]

I think I know what the problem is. Whenever I click on ANY of the clickable links on the edit FB Connect page, I am redirected to my main website with a 404 error. My forum is located in a subdirectory. I have a feeling that something in my FB application is not right.

[dilbert]

This looks very interesting, thank you for the work you've done.
How does this manage duplicate users?
Let's say you have unique emails turned on, does it ensure the Facebook email isn't already in the vB database?
What if the Facebook name is already in the vB database?

[Armyqt]

I enabled PHP 5 on my server and now I'm getting this error when I go to my forums home.

Warning: require_once([path]/includes/facebook/facebook.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/functions.php(5723) : eval()'d code on line 1

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/lotus14/public_html/forums/includes/facebook/facebook.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/lotus14/public_html/forums/includes/functions.php(5723) : eval()'d code on line 1

[FazerPaint]

Just tried this on my test site, followed all the install instruction to the letter and it works a treat..........THANKS

[MrToasty]

Awesome hack!

I don't think I'll install though, as I'm a simple kind of a guy and dislike having to edit templates manually whenever reverting is required on vb updates. So I don't think this hack is for me... It's a pity this kind of thing can't be done without the edits. (Yes, I know it's not possible)

[Armyqt]

Installed!! Thanks Sllik!! Very fast and efficent. :up:

[RvG2]

Originally Posted by dilbert

This looks very interesting, thank you for the work you've done.
How does this manage duplicate users?
Let's say you have unique emails turned on, does it ensure the Facebook email isn't already in the vB database?
What if the Facebook name is already in the vB database?

facebook connect will ask you a username which will immeidately check it in your database if such username exist or not.

[Brandon Sheley]

Originally Posted by RvG2

facebook connect will ask you a username which will immeidately check it in your database if such username exist or not.

actaully, on my install when a user from facebook joined, it asked if they where already a member, and if so, it asked to enter the username in a box.

[Stifmeister2]

Originally Posted by MrToasty

Awesome hack!

I don't think I'll install though, as I'm a simple kind of a guy and dislike having to edit templates manually whenever reverting is required on vb updates. So I don't think this hack is for me... It's a pity this kind of thing can't be done without the edits. (Yes, I know it's not possible)

Yes same here. This mod is awesome, but after I read the install instructions and noticed all those template edits I had to back off.


I already have many styles with template edits and it's a pain in the ass to manually edit them when I upgrade my forums.


This is a great mod but not for lazy guys like me.

[solidlink]

i have not yet installed this but i got a question which may not sound smart

"This add-on allows your guests and existing users to login with their Facebook account through Facebook Connect."

and

"Benefits of Facebook Connect

* Users can simply login with their Facebook account without going through the registration process."

i dont really get it, does it mean guests dont have to register on my forum?