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.

[mykkal]

Originally Posted by elrwnq

i have php 4.8.8
whate i can do ????

Originally Posted by wolfstream

Upgrade!
php 4 has been unsupported and dead for close to two years now. You can't just keep running old software like this, you need to upgrade it!

He's right and its prettty easy if you understand how to use WHM.
php4 isn't supported by many major apps that are current.

Get MYSQL 5 and PHP5 and rock on.

[mykkal]

Does anyone know the benefits of using a "Fan Page" over a "group" on facebook or vice versa?

Which is the best way to go? That's what i'm trying to figure out now.

[wolfstream]

Mykkal,

This is really not relevant to the application itself, honestly, except that it uses facebook, which is really not that uncommon any more.

The best place to get your answer for that specific question? on the facebook apps forums, as that doesn't involve vBulletin at all.

[mykkal]

Originally Posted by wolfstream

Mykkal,

This is really not relevant to the application itself, honestly, except that it uses facebook, which is really not that uncommon any more.

The best place to get your answer for that specific question? on the facebook apps forums, as that doesn't involve vBulletin at all.

I figured everyone is pretty much using it for the sames reasons with vbulletin as I. Just wanted to know what these guys thought were best.

I'll head over to facebook.

[emailapphost]

I too will pay to have this app upgraded and developed on.

[matt2133]

Just installed this - had a bit of fiddling about on where to put the "Connect with Facebook" bit, but worked it out after a few changes to the CSS!

Works great!

One question, there was a post about seperating members who sign up via facebook , how would i do this??

Cheers
Matt

[wolfstream]

Originally Posted by matt2133

Just installed this - had a bit of fiddling about on where to put the "Connect with Facebook" bit, but worked it out after a few changes to the CSS!

Works great!

One question, there was a post about seperating members who sign up via facebook , how would i do this??

Cheers
Matt

Create a new usergroup, copy permissions from registered users, and put the id of that usergroup in the mod's settings where it asks for it.

[pericolosogr]

Which lines do i have to remove so that the submit to facebook popups stop displaying?
I just want the pm and replied notifications only on facebook!
thanx

[fulviods]

Hi, I installed this mod and opened an application on facebook following all the instructions: i can see the connect button on my forum but when i click on it nothing happens !!

I'm reading all the pages of this thread (im actually at the 26th page, but yet not find a solution...). I'll continue reading, but if someone can already help me it would be coooool !

[wolfstream]

@fulviods :
Go through all the application settings again, something isn't setup properly.
Make sure that you've got the right id/secret in the vBulletin settings, and make sure that you've got the right urls/domain in the facebook app settings. Those are the two important things that are missed when this happens.

@pericolosogr :
This is something that will probably have to be added manually, though you might be able to do this by not editing the newthread templates.