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.

[Goomzee]

why people don;t reply question i really need help

[GavM]

Originally Posted by PokerAffiliate

I run VBSEO and this mod together and they seem to work fine.

Version 3.2?

We had to uninstall because we were getting trailing slashes everywhere. (www.url.com//fblogin.php for example)

I wasn't sure but one of our Admins said it's vBSEO?

[Lone Gunman]

Originally Posted by Goomzee

how to i set Data Maping or i just leave this option

first create new user fields to match the ones on FB like facebook profile, etc. then under data map section of this mods settings, youll have 2 drop down menus if i remember right. select matching fields and click ok or map each time. for example, select first name on each, then last name on each, then email on each.....

which ever ones you pair with each other are the ones that are linked or mapped.

[Brandon Sheley]

I'm installing this on another site and I get a big nastey error when doing step 7 (data maping)

Fatal error: Call to undefined function print_datamap_row() in D:\xxxxxxxxxxx\Web\admincp\fbconnect_datamap.php on line 96

and a big long sql query.

any ideas?

thanks

[Goomzee]

Originally Posted by Lone Gunman

first create new user fields to match the ones on FB like facebook profile, etc. then under data map section of this mods settings, youll have 2 drop down menus if i remember right. select matching fields and click ok or map each time. for example, select first name on each, then last name on each, then email on each.....

which ever ones you pair with each other are the ones that are linked or mapped.

Is this impotant to make Data Mapping?

[Lone Gunman]

not really. its an option. it just automatically fills in their info from facebook onto their profile on your forum. you can not use it and they can just add the info manually if they want. data mapping is probably the easiest thing to do while setting this mod up.

i tried this but had troubles with it so i uninstalled so i cant just look to see exactly what everything says in the settings, but hope i helped you a lil bit.

[gemmk1]

My members cant get it to work with internet explorer they can only get it to work with mozilla.Can i ask why please or is there an ie

If they use internet explorer this is what they are getting

You have entered an invalid username or password. Please press the back button, enter the correct details and try again. Don't forget that the password is case sensitive. Forgotten your password? Click here!

This app is really awesome and a big thank you to you.But is there any way of getting it to work with internet explorer please

[Capper5016]

Really a great mod, and a great author.....good communication and a real stand up guy.

[mykkal]

Hey there...

This is a most awesome mod! I've tried installing it and ran into some problems.
Whenever I click on news feed I see a blank screen. Basically I uploaded the XML and then couldn't enter the template feeds because the screen shows blank. Anyone have this issue?

BTW, i'm using PHP 4.

[vidan]

first thanks for creating this mod, make me easier .
got a few problem, installed on vb 3.8.1

1. after login through the apps.facebook,and complete register, it seems that email and password is broken
when go to usercp, got user email like this
apps+49776574233.683635672.88b604da81e394087d23559 59f22f5fb@proxymail.facebook.com

and password is wrong, cannot update password(it should be the same with facebook password right, but i cant even login using the same password in fb)

anyone got the same trouble likeme?
others is working, notification via subscription work, also pm work too
please help me. thanks
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