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.

[vAsia]

How doI create a new blankpage with only "Connect with Facebook" button on it, so when people click on that button, facebook popup connect window pops up?

[scottct1]

This was a GREAT mod however I had to remove it from my site as the calls to Facebook got my site blocked by a number of major companies and state governments.

As soon as I removed the facebook mod a number of companies and government agencies agreed to remove my site from their blocks.

[Lone Gunman]

Originally Posted by scottct1

This was a GREAT mod however I had to remove it from my site as the calls to Facebook got my site blocked by a number of major companies and state governments.

As soon as I removed the facebook mod a number of companies and government agencies agreed to remove my site from their blocks.

are you kiddin? who blocked you and why exactly?

[want3ed]

how can i make mod to retrieve date of birth and mail from facebook to vbulletin?

[TNCclubman]

Interesting, many companies block facebook... can someone confirm this will get our sites blocked as well?

[Potlocator]

Just so everyone knows, the problems I've been posting about in regards to facebook all have to deal with a conflict of vbGallery (Photopost). After much frustration I sent the developer an email and he responded promptly that it was indeed an issue with vbGallery and he would be working on an update this weekend. So cross your fingers, tough it out, and hopefully the geniuses at work will come to our rescue.

[bposner]

Greetings;
To change the templates and code, do I have to shut the board down?
Thanks

[Lone Gunman]

its recommended to anytime you add another mod

[scottct1]

Originally Posted by Lone Gunman

are you kiddin? who blocked you and why exactly?

No unfortunately, I wish I was as I liked this mod.

The State of Maine was the first one that I knew blocked us.

Then later on the same day started getting notice that many schools and companies around the country couldn't get to the site reporting that it was blocked as well.

One of my members called the State of Maine IT department who investigated it and told him that we were blocked due to the calls to Facebook. So after that I disabled this and undid all the template changes. The user contracted his friend in the state of maine who had whoever rescan our site and make it available again.

This also opened up the other companies and school systems who were also reporting being blocked. So I am not sure who they use for their blocking database but it seems like they all used the same one.

Please understand I am not putting this mod down, its an excellent mod, I am just reporting what happened to me and my site because of this mod.

[dynamite]

They are most likely using Websense to block the sites. The state agency I used to work for, and the city I work for now use it.