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.

[Lone Gunman]

Originally Posted by Ski-Whiz

I've never set it up to redirect when I post. It doesn't redirect any other time, and never redirected until I installed this mod.

I disable this mod, and its fine. I enable it and I get the redirect when using the quick reply.

If no others are having this issue, must be unique to my site.

I even tried this on a clean style. Still the same thing.

I just checked my settings and I have "Remove Redirection Message Pages" set to "Yes."

I'm going to install this on another site to see if maybe something else is causing it. Maybe another mod or something.

could be a template edit causing it then with this mod. i know my site has the redirect msg without this mod installed. im still kinda new to VB so i cant offer a lot of help. there might be some compatibility issues between this mod and others still. sorry i couldnt help more

[Michael2]

When I go to admincp/fbconnect_datamap.php and admincp/fbconnect_registertemplates.php I get a blank white page even though both pages are listed in the admincp directory. Any ideas?

[KevinL]

I just noticed, there is an uncached template when viewing a thread. fbconnect_qr_prepare_submit this is throwing my queries through the roof! For some reason it's adding over 8 queries to my showthread. Which is weird... hahah

[maybepost]

I opted for a professional installation. It was done today and I can see it working without any problems. (vb 3.8, basic template)

Thanks!

[tr03bor]

I get this error when clicking News-Feed Templates,

Warning: include_once(jsonwrapper/jsonwrapper.php) [function.include-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php on line 34

Warning: include_once() [function.include]: Failed opening 'jsonwrapper/jsonwrapper.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in [path]/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php on line 34

Any help

[shockspoon]

OK. I 've installed it BUT
I cannot see my posts published on facebook.
The scenario is:
1) Account already created on VB
2) New Account created at FB
3) Logged in FB
4) At login screen of VB i click the fbconnect button and accociate the two accounts
5) Succesfull login at VB.
6) Post somthing in iVB but cannot see it in FB

Any ideas?
Thanks!

[tr03bor]

Originally Posted by tr03bor

I get this error when clicking News-Feed Templates,


Warning: include_once(jsonwrapper/jsonwrapper.php) [function.include-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php on line 34

Warning: include_once() [function.include]: Failed opening 'jsonwrapper/jsonwrapper.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in [path]/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php on line 34

Any help

I have double checked my files, and I cannot see anything wrong?

[KevinL]

Do you have php5?

[tr03bor]

Pretty sure I have, How would I check?

[KevinL]

in your admincp --> maintenance --> view phpinfo at the top it should tell you