Integration with vBulletin - Facebook Connect - Allow your users to login with their Facebook account

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

WORKS WITH 3.8!

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!

How to Upgrade From 2.0.0 to 2.0.1

• Upgrade the product. (Import the product XML again and set overwrite to yes).
• Update Feed Template IDs in the settings (make sure they are the same as at: FB Connect Options -> News-Feed Templates)

How to Upgrade From 2.0.1 to 2.0.2
See UPGRADE.html

• Fixed the notification problem (notifications were sent to wrong people)
• Login button will now be displayed on vbAdvanced pages

How to Upgrade From 2.0.2 to 2.0.3
See UPGRADE.html

• Fixed the Facebook avatar displayed for the wrong people problem.
• Added Facebook UID & Profile URL field to data map.

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.

[RvG2]

thanks for fixing 3.8 version

[gweb]

Originally Posted by RvG2

thanks for fixing 3.8 version

What is it fixed?!??? what changes has there been?

[MiSs MeOw]

works perfect absolutely great mod

[bavetta]

Seems like it works well to me. I have one comment, when you login with incorrect credentials or logout (access login.php with some variables, like login.php?do=logout&fblogout=true) the FBConnect box is not displayed alongside the regular login box. In the HTML source of the page it looks like it is calling the FB Box Section but it does not display like it should and like it does when viewing any other forum page.

Thanks
Ryan

[Tamaz]

Thanks for the great plug-in

I would like that new users that connect through Facebook Connect could enter the user that
got them to join as referal.

Is that possible, I was planning to have a referral contest.

Regards,
Thomas

[tpearl5]

So what's fixed/new in the new version?

[BeFit4Free]

Hey guys,
I am having a hard time getting Facebook Connect to link my existing profile.
Also,
When I try to post a message, it gives me this error message:
The following errors occurred with your submission:
The message you have entered is too short. Please lengthen your message to at least 5 characters.


Any ideas?

[mykkal]

Originally Posted by BeFit4Free

Hey guys,
I am having a hard time getting Facebook Connect to link my existing profile.
Also,
When I try to post a message, it gives me this error message:
The following errors occurred with your submission:
The message you have entered is too short. Please lengthen your message to at least 5 characters.Any ideas?

I think the plugin needs an option to relogin or associate a facebook login with the vBuletin member account. But it doesn't. So people cannot log out of facebook connect or change facebook accounts.

I noticed that if I log out and log back in that FaceBook connect uses the same credentials as before.

Originally Posted by tpearl5

So what's fixed/new in the new version?

Isn't it strange we never recieved word of what the vunerability was...weird.

[kevinrstruck]

I installed. Just about to do template edits when this pops up on any page on my forum including the backend admin area so I cannot even see the admin section.

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(5584) : eval()'d code on line 46

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/autumn/public_html/forums/includes/facebook/facebook.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/autumn/public_html/forums/includes/functions.php(5584) : eval()'d code on line 46

Any help would be greatly appreciated since my forum is now down.

[mykkal]

Originally Posted by kevinrstruck

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(5584) : eval()'d code on line 46

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/autumn/public_html/forums/includes/facebook/facebook.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/autumn/public_html/forums/includes/functions.php(5584) : eval()'d code on line 46

Upload your files again. Looks like they are missing from the directory they should be in.