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.

[toadyd]

Originally Posted by mcyates

Uninstalling

It annoys me, every post or reply i make I have to say if i want to publish it or not!!!

Just turn off the 'Enable Feeds - Post news-feeds to the user's wall on Facebook?' in the settings.
Or remove the feed related template edits (there are only 3 i think...)

[RoxyTheImpreza]

Can't install the XML.... everytime I get this:

Database error in vBulletin 3.8.3:

Invalid SQL:
UPDATE vb3language SET title = title, phrasegroup_cprofilefield = 'a:8:{s:11:\"field1_desc\";s:28:\"A few details about yourself\";s:12:\"field1_title\";s:9:\"Biography\" ;s:11:\"field2_desc\";s:14:\"Where you live\";s:12:\"field2_title\";s:8:\"Location\";s:11 :\"field3_desc\";s:17:\"Your hobbies, etc\";s:12:\"field3_title\";s:9:\"Interests\";s:11 :\"field4_desc\";s:8:\"Your job\";s:12:\"field4_title\";s:10:\"Occupation\";}' , phrasegroup_reputationlevel :.............alot more... too much to post....

MySQL Error : MySQL server has gone away
Error Number : 2006
Request Date : Saturday, August 22nd 2009 @ 04:42:13 PM
Error Date : Saturday, August 22nd 2009 @ 04:42:15 PM
Script : http://forums.awdtuning.com/admincp/...=productimport
Referrer : http://forums.awdtuning.com/admincp/...?do=productadd
IP Address : 74.193.81.120
Username : I'm Ben Dood!
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version :


any ideas on what needs to be enabled or disabled on the SQL server to get this to work? I am a total noob! Tried contacting the host to no avail... is there a specific thing i need to ask them?

[wolfstream]

Originally Posted by mcyates

It annoys me, every post or reply i make I have to say if i want to publish it or not!!!

Take it up with facebook devs, ALL applications do this, not just vBulletin. Why? Because they did, in fact remove the "remember this" option from their own popups

[wolfstream]

I've provided a lot of support for this mod, encouraging the dev to basically ignore his own mod, doing his (or her) job for them. No more.

If I've provided a mod for this, to you, outside of this thread, I'll happily support that via PM. I'd strongly recommend individuals to look @ VB Nexus, there IS a way to run an SQL query to import your users from this mod, just look through the thread. Since this is supported by an IB member, I'd think they would provide a bit more support here! Ya, it's a beta, but there are no template edits, and much, much better integration.

[efe]

i instaled, worked
but does not exactly match the profile information and if member name has a Turkish character (?, ?, ı, İ, ğ, Ğ, ?,?, ş, Ş, ?, ?) comes words has broken

[drsli]

Originally Posted by wolfstream

I've provided a lot of support for this mod, encouraging the dev to basically ignore his own mod, doing his (or her) job for them. No more.

Thank you very much for this really helpful efforts. Highly appreciated on my side as a non-coder.

[timbadolato]

Need Help Auto Friend Problem:
I just got this installed and I noticed that when I sign up with facebook connect people I know are automatically my friend but when I check they're vb profile pages I am not they're friend so the friendship is not mutual. How do I fix?

Thanks for any input

[timbadolato]

bump
*now marked as installed- forgot-- new to vb

[Veer]

Installed but having problem, I get 500 Error when I do..

At the "Login with Facebook Connect" page it ask me for a "Nickname", I enter name and click "Log in" button it ask for "Publish Story", I "Skip" this and just got "HTTP 500 Internal Server Error"

Any idea what is wrong?

Thanks.

[timbadolato]

Originally Posted by timbadolato

Need Help Auto Friend Problem:
I just got this installed and I noticed that when I sign up with facebook connect people I know are automatically my friend but when I check they're vb profile pages I am not they're friend so the friendship is not mutual. How do I fix?

Thanks for any input

I'm guessing this mod is no longer supported but I am willing to pay someone via paypal to help me out with my question. I can't launch my forum until this is fixed.

thanks