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.

[rockinaway]

Those of you who are having problems with the 'message short error' after uninstalling, simply follow this:

http://www.adminfuel.com/f32/faceboo...1207/#post6449

[Veer]

Uninstalled, because no support available.

[japaro]

I have tried to install your mod i don't get a button to login i have tried every steps possible
i have included a series of images from my website and from facebook. Can any one help and see what am i doing wrong.

Thanks in advance

It's is working now

[iflymyhelishigh]

OK. Well, I installed the plugin, and I got a weird error.

Transport error (#1001) while retrieving data from endpoint '/ajax/confirm_email.php'. A network error occurred. Check that you are connected to the internet.

This error pops up for half a second then goes away and tries to resize the box. Its weird because it says that my email isn't valid.

Should this be like this? Any fixes?

[remotay]

Excellent plugin =0 Great job developer. One quick thing, is it possible to disable the facebook notifications? It may annoy some users -_-.

[Ohiosweetheart]

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.

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.

Sadly, didn't turn out that way.

[matt4]

Hi,

Mod author please see this - http://www.theadminzone.com/forums/s...157#post459157

Is there any way to pull a users email into their profile. We need to get the users profile information.

Thanks,

[sdfaheem]

If a new member logs in with facebook account, is he considered as a newly joined member on the forum?

[matt4]

He only stays in one rank and can't be promoted it seems. The lack of having their email is pretty upsetting from a marketing point of view.

[Wakey]

Originally Posted by matt4

He only stays in one rank and can't be promoted it seems. The lack of having their email is pretty upsetting from a marketing point of view.

You still have an email that you can email them on which the goes to the address they nominate in Facebook. In someways this is even better as they can't forget to change it on your forums OR if they go inactive for a while you will always have their current email.

Its also not that hard to change the template to allow them to add their email account and even urge them to add it.