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.

[jlew24asu]

so any people that sign up using facebook have no email on file and can not be contacted with Newsletters for example. is there anyway for the app to require a real email?

[tpearl5]

Originally Posted by Pokerbanter

How do you find out which php you are using? I'm getting the same error as that guy

Well, easy way is to look on the admincp homepage - says it right in there...

Originally Posted by tei727

i installed the app and it all seems to be ok but i'm not seeing any facebook wall notifications when i post. also, is there somewhere in my profile that shows facebook?

Assuming you hooked your account up to facebook, you should see a popup when you post a new thread or reply saying "Publish this story to your Facebook profile?".

Originally Posted by jlew24asu

so any people that sign up using facebook have no email on file and can not be contacted with Newsletters for example. is there anyway for the app to require a real email?

The message will just be sent to their facebook inbox - I don't imagine html will display correctly if you have any in your newsletter.

[Wakey]

Originally Posted by tpearl5

The message will just be sent to their facebook inbox - I don't imagine html will display correctly if you have any in your newsletter.

Actually it gets sent to the email address they have on store in Facebook if they allow the email options. It just goes by a facebook proxy to mask the address. HTML should work fine

[AMUforums]

I read all 58 pages. I have gone over all the steps three times.

My URL is www.amuforums.com
I have PHP 5.2.5 and MySQL 5.0.67-log.
vBulletin 3.8.0, and vBadvanced CMPS v3.1.0.

The facebook button doesn't show. Any idea what might be the problem?

EDIT:
I am reverting my whole forum to two days ago before I installed this and vbadvanced CMPS, and I will give it another shot from scratch before installing vbadvanced.

EDIT #2:
Reverting failed miserably. I am going to start with a fresh install of 3.8.0
Updates will follow.

EDIT #3:
I started fresh. The button is visible, but not working. The link as it appears is: http://amuforums.com/index.php#

EDIT #4:
Complete success. I changed the callback URL from HTTP://www.amuforums.com/xd_receiver.htm to HTTP://amuforums.com.
Tested in Firefox, and Internet Explorer, with flawless results. I also tested the login with a test facebook account, worked PERFECTLY. This is a great app, probably the single most powerful I have seen on vb.org.

EDIT #5:
I will now try to install vbadvanced CMPS. More updates will follow.

[Mum]

When i install this i get

 Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected '{' in /home/mummybra/public_html/imperfectlyrealparents.com/includes/functions.php(5723) : eval()'d code on line 9

at the top of my forums

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by Mum

When i install this i get

 Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected '{' in /home/mummybra/public_html/imperfectlyrealparents.com/includes/functions.php(5723) : eval()'d code on line 9

at the top of my forums

Sounds like you made an error while copying and pasting.

[AMUforums]

UPDATE:
I started from scratch, with 3.8.0. I installed the facebook connect, it worked perfectly. I then installed vbadvanced CMPS, and it continued to work perfectly.

I think I may be getting one of those errors that are spoken a lot through these 58 pages, but it does not affect the functionality.

[JasonGreen]

I installed and modified all templates. When clicking the icon "connect with facebook", the href is just a # and nothing happens.

[fixed]

Changed my callback from http://www.domain.com/support to http://domain.com

[AMUforums]

Originally Posted by imported_JasonGreen

I installed and modified all templates. When clicking the icon "connect with facebook", the href is just a # and nothing happens.

It's the callback URL in the facebook app.

What is your callback URL?

[VanDaMe]

if someone connected from facebook, are the database updated?

I mean, if he's connecting using his/her facebook account, then an account automaticly registered to vB database?