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.

[Mythor]

Mustered up the courage to try installing it this afternoon. Should have done it sooner as it all worked perfectly fine. Running vBulletin 3.8.0 on the forum in my signature.
Template edits were a little tedious but nothing too bad.

One suggestion though sllik - some better instructions for how to set up the Facebook Application would be greatly appreciated. I'm not too sure that it's all done correctly on that end of things, though it seems to be working just fine.
A list of suggested values or an explicit instruction to only fill certain fields would be good.

Now I just have to sit back and hope my members are as intrigued as I.

*Marked as Installed*

[Spooony]

Fantastic mod!! Brilliant work

[GCC LLC]

Originally Posted by sllik

unfortunately there is no way to bring the popup back after the user chose to never post news-feeds but if you set New Reply Feed Template ID to 0 the user won't be prompted for a new reply.

Ok I finally got it to work again through Facebook settings but only if I had a all 3 templates with the same ID. If I set the New Reply Feed to zero, nothing would publish at all. Replies or New threads.

[Spooony]

Just one thing, how do I assign a Facebook account to a different VB account?
I've set my own Facebook account to link with a test VB account, but would like it linked to my main account.

[dadymac]

I installed this on a private forum, where you have to have access to view.

Whenever you put in your FB info, it justs redirects to fblogin.php and keeps asking for login info. I noticed several others with the similar issue, but didnt see any resolution.

[Spooony]

Originally Posted by dadymac

I installed this on a private forum, where you have to have access to view.

Whenever you put in your FB info, it justs redirects to fblogin.php and keeps asking for login info. I noticed several others with the similar issue, but didnt see any resolution.

I had the same problem but you have to open it up to unregistered users and just change forum viewing permissions etc yourself for the unregistered usergroup. Worked for me anyway.

[dadymac]

Originally Posted by Spooony

I had the same problem but you have to open it up to unregistered users and just change forum viewing permissions etc yourself for the unregistered usergroup. Worked for me anyway.

well basically we want this to dump the accounts into CoPPA and we manually approve who we want to have access.

[Spooony]

Originally Posted by dadymac

well basically we want this to dump the accounts into CoPPA and we manually approve who we want to have access.

Aye, that's exactly how I've got it. Change the default usergroup to 4 under FB Connect options. They'll go into the COPPA usergroup once registered (via Facebook) but to get registered in the first place the unregistered usergroup needs permission to view the forums (even if you don't actually show them individual forums under view permissions) if that makes sense.

[nMIK-3]

Slick I have one issue that I like to take care of and I cannot find how to address it.

When a user have some activity in my forum and publish the story to facebook wall, facebook states the following:
The User has join MySite or
The User has created a new thread at MySite
While the link to MySite it refers to http://www.mysiti.com/forum

I want the .com extension to be displayed on facebook wall like that
The User has join MySite.com or
The User has created a new thread at MySite.com

And I want the link to direct to http://www.mysite.com and not to http://www.mysiti.com/forum

Any idea how I am correcting those issues?

[kursed]

Can you please change the gif at login page from 'Connect with Facebook' to 'Login using Facebook'?