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.

[BSMedia]

anyone having problems with safari and facebook connect pop up? I've been playing around with it on my test site and can't seem to get it to work with safari only

[jl255]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

He said he agrees with you.

But as it stands, I think the mod would have to be rewritten to accomplish that.

yah, i think so unfortunately. I wld think that the easiest change is to force new users to register and then to run through the normal registration process instead of inserting the FB proxy email and password.

sigh.... any kind souls willing to give this a shot?

[OSanchez]

I dont understand. I set the callback url to

http://www.nightdwellers.org/xd_receiver.htm

and I get the blank page....now what?

[BENBOBBY]

OSanchez, you need to set the callback url to the address of your forum. For example: http://www.yoursiteurl.com/forum/

[SSC streezer]

hey guys,

the login works fine on my forums but if i want to post a reply on a toopic, it always says that my content / message / post is too short.

how can i solve this?

//edit - the completly part which is called "OPTIONAL - Needed for the news-feeds to work." isnt working and causes that the users can't post any replies anymore...

anybody else got this problem? and why is this not supported x) ?

[BENBOBBY]

When users first connect, there is a link to "Set email notification settings", and says "You will be able to change this permission from the Applications Settings page".

However, after signing up I visit the application settings page (http://www.facebook.com/editapps.php....php?v=allowed), and the only option I can see is to "Publish recent activity (one line stories) to my Wall":




How do I set it to disable notifications when I get PMs for example? I know you can enable/disable this globally, but I imagine some users would find it useful, while it may annoy others.

[seaweed]

I just notice that when i log into my forum it welocmes me in a different language "Kumunekta sa Facebook" Is it also in a different language when after I post it asks me if

¿Publicar esta historia en tu Muro de Facebook y en las páginas de inicio de tus amigos?

help

[BENBOBBY]

I have the same problem seaweed.

Is it just me, or is this hack really buggy?

I installed it and worked fine, then I just used it and the title has now randomly changed language, so instead of saying "Connect with Facebook" it says "Se connecter à Facebook"??? Ive double checked the language is still set to english.

I havent modified any of the code, and followed the instructions closely.

Please help as I really like the idea of this addon!

EDIT: Its now gone back to English, without changing anything! Hopefully it was just a one off glitch.

EDIT2: Now its in what looks like Chinese "連線到 Facebook". Please help.

[SSC streezer]

Originally Posted by SSC streezer

hey guys,

the login works fine on my forums but if i want to post a reply on a toopic, it always says that my content / message / post is too short.

how can i solve this?

//edit - the completly part which is called "OPTIONAL - Needed for the news-feeds to work." isnt working and causes that the users can't post any replies anymore...

anybody else got this problem? and why is this not supported x) ?

ok solved that problem - I forgot to create the templates in vbulletin admin cp...

can somebody tell me how to create a variable in a template with the facebook development tool?

[Joe_Be]

Hi,

Amazing mod! Im not sure if this has always been the case but I have recently noticed that my facebook connect is not in english :S

Anoybody else have this problem or know how I can fix it?

E.g. When I click the 'Connect with facebook' button the window that is displayed is titled 'Facebook ile bağlan!', or some other language. The rest is all in english fortunatly.

Thanks if anyone can help.

EDIT: Oh can see that other people have had this problem. Anybody fixed it? Cheers. Joe