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.

[ThuPapiVolvox]

dwdsdsdd thank you...

[AlBDJ-Net]

this mod is so great thank you!..Installed

[Stirling]

This is a terrific mod. Thanks for releasing it.

Has anyone successfully incorporated the Facebook invite friends feature into their forum with this mod?

I'm thinking of the way you're often prompted to invite friends the first time you log onto a Facebook application. That would really increase site virality I think.

[saviola8x]

please update for vb4 . thank so much

[eternal_]

Is Facebook connect going to be available for 4.0?

[obmob]

Nice idea, this should be standard in new vb 4.0 ¬¬

[Stirling]

Is anyone else having trouble getting the Email Settings functionality to work? When I click on it a Facebook box saying Request for Special Permissions pops up but then disappears.

I see the developer hasn't logged in since September. Is anyone supporting this mod?

[Steve_nash]

it dosent work on IE 8

[inciarco]

One Bug:

When I Access an Account with Facebook Connect, it Connects but when I End the Session the Facebook Account is Still Oppened, is I write www.facebook.com on the Browser it Displays the Oppened Account, (very Dangerous if an User Access his/her Account on a Public Computer and isn't Aware that his/her Facebook Account will Remain Oppened even if he/she Ends the Forum Session); is an Open Window for Facebook Security and Privacy Problems.

(This Happens on Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, and Mozilla FireFox, so is a Problem with the Mod and Not the Browser).

Can this be Corrected? How?

I also noticed that when I access the Account with Facebook Connect, I Close the Session, and Click the Facebook Connect Button, it Immediately Access the Account without Displaying the Facebook Login Window; this is Related with the Bug I mentioned before.

I Appreciate Your Answer, I'll Subscribe to this Mod's Thread to Receive a Solution to this Facebook Security Problem.

(I'm Using Version 2.0.5 of this Mod for vB37x).

My Best Regars.

[inciarco]

I've Updated to version 2.0.6 on vB37x, and the Same Bug Occurs.

I Hope You Can Fix That Bug.

I've Disabled the Mod for Now, is Not Right to Offer this Facebook Connection Option if that Causes Privacy/Security Problems for the Users on their Facebook Accounts, because their Accounts Will Remain Oppened and Anybody Can Access Them and Even Steal Them (Change the Password) if they're Accessed on a Public Computer.

My Best Regards.