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.

[Blacura]

otherwise i get this error if i do sign in

[wolfstream]

hrrrm
When you updated the plugin, did you re-upload the files as well?
This seems quite a bit odd, because I've never had this problem. Then again, my forums are directly @ domain, not domain/forum

[Blacura]

this was the first time i installed it. so it wasnt an update

[Blacura]

not to mention it doesnt work with firefox

[wolfstream]

Well, that's odd.

Since the author has pretty much abandoned this app, I will provide what help I can to those that need it. If you need help installing it, contact me via PM and I'll try to work something out with you.

I don't want to step on anyone toes here, so if the author comes back in and says he'll handle installs, I will gladly let him do so.

Blacura, if you want to have me take a look @ this for you, drop me a PM.

This app does work, and you've got to do a bit of configuration to it, but if it's more complicated, let me know

[wolfstream]

Blacura, you're setup well enough now. let me know if you have other problems.
You didn't have the app setup correctly, so it wasn't handling the facebook information properly.

All better

[Blacura]

Originally Posted by wolfstream

Blacura, you're setup well enough now. let me know if you have other problems.
You didn't have the app setup correctly, so it wasn't handling the facebook information properly.

All better

You are the best. if anyone else is having issues talk to this guy he is awesome

[BigDog56]

I was about to install this, but if the author has abandoned it...

[Blacura]

i was thinking same thing but it works fine. go ahead and install it

[kud0gfx]

Can I use it ONLY for already registered users? i know that if a guest connects is registered, but i've a modified register.php, with email marketing and all that crap... so... what would happen with that?