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 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.

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Troubleshooting
Server Requirements:
PHP 5

[john_robot]

This is not working

News-Feed Templates >

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /home/gindara.com/httpdocs/includes/facebook/facebook.php on line 38

Data Mapping >

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /home/gindara.com/httpdocs/includes/facebook/facebook.php on line 38

[ImageMavericks]

This is an awesome mod! Support was fantastic as well. It looks like a few of us are struggling with the news feed templates. I get what it is, I just don't seem to successfully be able to post images and links so they look right and make sense. I just want one image and one line of text for each thing, and when I modify the short story I can't delete it so it only shows one image. If someone can post a step-through I would greatly appreciate it! This mod rocks!

[Brandon Sheley]

Originally Posted by Loco.M

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

any update on this error?

[attilio]

Great Mod!

Is there anyway for existing board users to connect via Facebook without the need to create a new vbulletin account, i.e. integrate their existing account?

Also, if changes have been made to the data mapping, is there a function to repopulate the account info from Facebook into vbulletin?

[moon_spell]

hello

is a super mod but only works on chrome ! internet explorer does not load the fbconnection script ! why ? how can i slove this ?

best regards

[testbot]

this thread is too long. has anyone asked where the members edit their notification settings and stuff?

thanks in advance!

[Firestar.chkn]

I've got one uncached template. Does anyone know if there is a way I can fix it?

[testbot]

Originally Posted by Firestar.chkn

I've got one uncached template. Does anyone know if there is a way I can fix it?

idk but my first guess would be AdminCP> Maintenance> Update Counters> Rebuild Styles

[testbot]

This might be a bug.

When a user is on a corporate network they get popups from their firewall/proxy sayin the site is blocked. the forum loads in the background so it doesn't stop them from using the forum but as you can imagine, clicking a popup closed every time the page loads is not going to make ppl happy.

unfortunately, many forums main user base is people sitting at working not wanting to work so they post the day away.

anyway we can only do facebook checking if the user is in the facebook group or something? im not sure how to combat this because i didn't start digging through the code yet.

thanks in advance!!!