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.

[mmllc]

Yea dead on my site too... getting that 500 internal server error

[Support]

i got this error in : [ Register Default Templates ]

Fatal error:  Uncaught exception 'FacebookRestClientException'  with message 'action_links-href URL is not properly formatted' in  /home/xxx/public_html/vb/includes/facebook/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php:2403 Stack  trace: #0  /home/xxx/public_html/vb/includes/facebook/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php(661):  FacebookRestClient->call_method('facebook.feed.r...', Array) #1  /home/xxx/public_html/vb/xxx/fbconnect_registertemplates.php(34):  FacebookRestClient->feed_registerTemplateBundle(Array, Array, NULL,  Array) #2 {main}   thrown in /home/xxx/public_html/vb/includes/facebook/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php on line 2403

[6piston]

can anyone verify if this mod working at the moment?
i'm thinking of reinstalling it

thanks!

[Support]

it did not work with me
i pmed the developer and im still waiting for his answer !

[jenderal_black]

Originally Posted by Support

i got this error in : [ Register Default Templates ]

Fatal error:  Uncaught exception 'FacebookRestClientException'  with message 'action_links-href URL is not properly formatted' in  /home/xxx/public_html/vb/includes/facebook/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php:2403 Stack  trace: #0  /home/xxx/public_html/vb/includes/facebook/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php(661):  FacebookRestClient->call_method('facebook.feed.r...', Array) #1  /home/xxx/public_html/vb/xxx/fbconnect_registertemplates.php(34):  FacebookRestClient->feed_registerTemplateBundle(Array, Array, NULL,  Array) #2 {main}   thrown in /home/xxx/public_html/vb/includes/facebook/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php on line 2403

I got the same problem too.....this mod not work for me....waiting fix problem

[BigJohnny]

the settings on facebook that need to be changed according to the install file don't appear to match correctly.

Once I click login with fbconnect, it says thanks for logging in Bigjohnny, but then returns me to forumhome without being logged in.

[BigJohnny]

ok so I got this working, then deleted the facebook application, and had to recreate it.

I was previously able to post. now I cannot. I know it's been answered before about the enhanced editor, but it was working with it enabled and now it's not.

I've made some changes but I can't figure out why the heck I can't post.

even disabling FBconnect in the product manager won't allow me to post a thread.

[dturnbull]

Originally Posted by Support

i got this error in : [ Register Default Templates ]

Fatal error:  Uncaught exception 'FacebookRestClientException'  with message 'action_links-href URL is not properly formatted' in  /home/xxx/public_html/vb/includes/facebook/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php:2403 Stack  trace: #0  /home/xxx/public_html/vb/includes/facebook/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php(661):  FacebookRestClient->call_method('facebook.feed.r...', Array) #1  /home/xxx/public_html/vb/xxx/fbconnect_registertemplates.php(34):  FacebookRestClient->feed_registerTemplateBundle(Array, Array, NULL,  Array) #2 {main}   thrown in /home/xxx/public_html/vb/includes/facebook/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php on line 2403

Same problem here.

[sunnylikbeckham]

This error (HTTP 500 Internal Server Error) means that the website you are visiting had a server problem which prevented the webpage from displaying.

i able to pass on the 1st page
than it asks what username you want
when i put anything there and click submit gets that error

[BigJohnny]

Originally Posted by wolfstream

Your phrases didn't get imported. Try reimporting the XML


Your server isn't parsing the XML properly, the product XML itself is good.
Make sure you meet the requirements in the first post.



This has been answered a number of times in this thread. This is not a mod issue, but an editor issue. The 'enhanced editor' has known issues with multiple addons. Switch to the 'standard editor' in your profile, and you'll have no problem.

I have no idea why the advanced editor does this, but it does this with almost every single plugin that interacts with posts.

well I'd like to know what it is that causes the problems, but it seems the author has been banned.