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.

[webuser00]

Hey guys,

I have version 2.0.2 on my forum, that I installed when I had vb 3.7 , now I have 3.8.

I want to upgrade to the latest version.. But I am unsure how to go about doing it. What's the best way to upgrade from 2.0.2 to 2.0.5? Can I upgrade it directly.. or do I have to upgrade from 2.0.2 to 2.0.3, then to 2.0.4 etc..

please let me know

[dchoi]

I followed the directions for step 1 to the best of my abilities and got this error.

Base Domain is not valid. Connect URL must be derived from your Base Domain.

Also, in what tab do I enter the callback url?

I'd appreciate any help. Can't wait to get this thing going!!

[webgroup]

I would be really glad if someone could help me
I installed the hack, its working exactly as promised
but after I logged in and publish the story on facebook, nothing else happened, I can't really log in to my forum.

All the process goes as it suppose, but after I logged in , I go to the forums and I'm not logged in.
I checked on the usergroup created for facebook users and I don't appear there, I searched the username I supposedly created, and it was not created.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by webuser00

Hey guys,

I have version 2.0.2 on my forum, that I installed when I had vb 3.7 , now I have 3.8.

I want to upgrade to the latest version.. But I am unsure how to go about doing it. What's the best way to upgrade from 2.0.2 to 2.0.5? Can I upgrade it directly.. or do I have to upgrade from 2.0.2 to 2.0.3, then to 2.0.4 etc..

please let me know

Upgrade instructions should be included in the ZIP file.

Originally Posted by dchoi

I followed the directions for step 1 to the best of my abilities and got this error.

Base Domain is not valid. Connect URL must be derived from your Base Domain.

Also, in what tab do I enter the callback url?

I'd appreciate any help. Can't wait to get this thing going!!

That depends on what you put as your Base Domain. Base domain is what you asked for when you purchased your domain name.

yoursite.net

Callback URL is the full URL to your forums.

http://www.yoursite.net/forums

Or wherever your forums are located under your domain. Could just be

http://www.yoursite.net

[dchoi]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

That depends on what you put as your Base Domain. Base domain is what you asked for when you purchased your domain name.

yoursite.net

Callback URL is the full URL to your forums.

http://www.yoursite.net/forums

Or wherever your forums are located under your domain. Could just be

http://www.yoursite.net

My base domain is davidchoimusic.com so that's what I put in there. However, I still get the same error message. Also, in what tab do I put the callback URL? The reason I'm asking is because there are several instances of the term "callback URL" on the Facebook App Edit page. So to clarify, in which of the following tabs do I enter the callback url?

Basic
Authentication
Profiles
Canvas
Connect
Widgets
Advanced

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by dchoi

My base domain is davidchoimusic.com so that's what I put in there. However, I still get the same error message. Also, in what tab do I put the callback URL? The reason I'm asking is because there are several instances of the term "callback URL" on the Facebook App Edit page. So to clarify, in which of the following tabs do I enter the callback url?

Basic
Authentication
Profiles
Canvas
Connect
Widgets
Advanced

The instructions specifically say to go to the Canvas Tab.

[dchoi]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

The instructions specifically say to go to the Canvas Tab.

Thanks. I put the callback URL into the Canvas tab. However, I'm still getting the same error message.

Base Domain is not valid. Connect URL must be derived from your Base Domain.

[wolfstream]

Originally Posted by tldagent

One thing I'd like to ask, and I haven't installed this mod yet because of this announcement:

I don't think we have anything to worry about with that at all. I strongly doubt they'd change their system enough to cause apps not to work.

Originally Posted by tldagent

what will it use? What information will be displayed on the forum currently as their username?

When the user uses this to connect to your forum, they choose a username. This has nothing to do with facebook usernames at all

Originally Posted by scottjonesqpr

i've a connect with facebook logo/button but it doesnt do anything?

Then ya did something wrong. Go over the instructions again, make sure you made the template edits properly and that you've put everything in where it should be.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by dchoi

Thanks. I put the callback URL into the Canvas tab. However, I'm still getting the same error message.

Base Domain is not valid. Connect URL must be derived from your Base Domain.

I just visited your website. There is no forum at that URL. There's nothing to callback.

[N-0p3rz]

Just installed with no problems =]

Instructions were a bit vague, but I eventually figured it all out.

Great modification man.

*Thumbs Up*