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.

[KProjects]

Great mod! Voting for MOTM!

Originally Posted by Ryuk

Lol I know I have o_o and IM sorry if anyone took my "Bumps" as a "rude"-like attitude. My intentions are not to be rude but to get some help ^^ thats all.

If you have an issue - and you appreciate the possibilities of this mod, why not paypal him the $25 to install it for you?

Rob

[sllik]

Originally Posted by Ryuk

Im still waiting to know why didnt it work on my forum o_o

What is your forum url? What do you see if not the facebook connect button?

Originally Posted by Simon Lloyd

If a guest can simply become registered on your forum without passing the human verification then doesn't that leave you open to spam?

I would love to install this but i wouldn't love the tons of work later deleting the spam, anyone got any guidance on this?

They don't need to pass the human verification test cuz they already did that when they registered on facebook.

Originally Posted by restless

Is there any indicator on the admin side to show what existing users may be using this feature?

search for @facebook.com email accounts.

[sllik]

Originally Posted by Lone Gunman

after you type in your nickname while first logging on using this, it just goes to a blank white page. any ideas? i disabled everything else and it still does it.

on IE i get an error on the nickname screen. line 390. char 29. syntax error. code 0. url http://brianslawn.com/forum/fblogin.php

go to FB Connect Settings -> Settings -> and save your settings (even if you didn't change anything). And Make sure the news-feed template id's are filled in.

[sllik]

Originally Posted by soulface

I'm still getting the same db error..

I'm looking into it

[Ryuk]

<a href="http://forum.darkness-online.com" target="_blank">http://forum.darkness-online.com</a>
The problem is, that im not seeing anything >_< I did check 3 times if I did all the correct template edits, but nothing.. if you need a temp admin account, let me know.

[RvG2]

Originally Posted by RvG2

sllik, kindly fix this uncached template:

Uncached templates: fbconnect_qr_prepare_submit (1)

sllik, just to bump this

[TsirhCitna]

Importing the profile picture as an avatar only seems to effect profile pages. The avatar doesn't show up in posts.

[karc2007]

Great Work! It worked right away without any problems.

[Armyqt]

I've upgraded to 3.8.1 and now I can't see the facebook logo anymore. My templates were updated, so what gives?

[hymoo]

I like this mod very very much although I see one very big disadvantage.
You decrease your new usersignups since almost everyone has a facebook account.

And I wanna store their database to contact now and then!

Or am I mistaking?