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.

[testbot]

*crickets*

[mikeB]

can anyone tell me how this conflicts with vbgallery and if there is any work around? i JUST got that whole thing integrated and my users using it and this was next - agh

[ForumUser210]

FB Connection Options -> News-Feed Templates:

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

Ah, shit -- php 4. That won't work :P

[frogster]

I'm sure this is a very basic and dumb question but I'm a newbie and can't find the answer anywhere (I even googled it). What files exactly do you upload (upload folder?) and Where exactly on the directory do you upload the files to? In the main vbulletin directly? Includes? Install?

Thanks in advance.

[TNCclubman]

Can this be made into a standalone import info tool from facebook?

ie. click here to import your info from facebook.

then it copies your profile pic, checks for friends, copies common info...

[MotMann]

I don't understand that install:

Go to the Canvas tab and set the Canvas Page URL (to whatever you want)

Where is that one?

[drsli]

That puzzled me too.

[frogster]

I'm trying to import/upload the XML product and I keep getting an error.

When I try to upload the file from my computer it says "Importing Please wait" at the top and then another message underneath that says "Invalid File Specified" ... not sure why since I'm choosing the correct file from my computer and it is XML.

When I try to import the file from my server it says "No file uploaded and no local file found" which again I'm not sure why since I'm writing in the correct path of the file.

Does anyone have any clue??

JUST FIGURED IT OUT...FORGET IT...

[mikeB]

FYI I have vbgallery and fbconnect running simultaneously?

[mikeB]

OK here is my issue:

when I make s new thread it connects and posts the title - but it LINKS it to the forum it was posted from and not the thread itself:

here is my account http://www.facebook.com/people/Michael-Baker/718579209 and the announcement thread is just linked to the FORUM and NOT THREAD - do I have an issue with my templates?

Replies work fine btw - they link to the thread

thx in advance