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.

[frogster]

Originally Posted by mykkal

I've only recently installed facebook connect on MyModelTalk. I only see the Facebook connect login in vBulletin while viewing the forum as a guest. When i'm logged in it goes away. Are you two saying the login should NORMALLY show all the time? So that people can change what login they are associated with?

No that is not what I am saying. When I try to log on and click the FB connect button, enter my username & password, I DO NOT see the submit button. I have to just hit enter. It used to be there.

[HenryCell]

Originally Posted by frogster

No that is not what I am saying. When I try to log on and click the FB connect button, enter my username & password, I DO NOT see the submit button. I have to just hit enter. It used to be there.

Same problem

[m0nde]

I noticed that even though my hosting account's cpanel reported that I was using PHP5, I was, in fact, using PHP4. My .htaccess file was forcing PHP4.

Once I remedied this, the errors, below, were fixed.

Originally Posted by m0nde

When this app is turned on, I get the following error on every forum page:

PHP Code:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '{' in /home4/bostonlo/public_html/forums/includes/functions.php(5721) : eval()'d code on line 13 


When I click on News Feed Templates in the FB Connect Options in my AdminCP, i get this error:

PHP Code:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /home4/bostonlo/public_html/forums/includes/facebook/facebook.php on line 38 


can someone please help me fix this.

[mykkal]

Originally Posted by HenryCell

Same problem

Originally Posted by frogster

No that is not what I am saying. When I try to log on and click the FB connect button, enter my username & password, I DO NOT see the submit button. I have to just hit enter. It used to be there.

So the iframe is too small? Where can we correct dimensions of it?

[smnet]

I would suggest we await the developers feedback - there are a few issues here to reply to and developers quickly lose the enthusiasm when overwhelmed.

Since this is the best mod since sliced bread that would be awful.

[mykkal]

Originally Posted by smnet

I would suggest we await the developers feedback - there are a few issues here to reply to and developers quickly lose the enthusiasm when overwhelmed.

Since this is the best mod since sliced bread that would be awful.

It's already been days, his plugin has been disabled, rewritten by a moderator, and reinstated. So we're beyond waiting.

[sbsforum.us]

Upgraded to the new version and now the button doesn't work any ideas?

Sorry if this has been addressed!

[sllik]

Originally Posted by playSocial

Since the upgrade all the mails to the Facebook proxy mails have been bouncing back. Any idea why?

I think facebook had a push to their platform and they made some changes... nothing I can do. But if the emails bounce it means that users set their permissions to not receive them.

Originally Posted by frogster

I upgraded today and it seems my submit and cancel button on the FB login form have disappeared. Not sure what happened. Can someone guide me as to what I have to do to get these buttons back.

Thanks in advance.

Looks like a facebook frack up...

Originally Posted by Wheemer

I am getting this error:

PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function print_datamap_row() in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\admincp\fbconnect_datamap.php on line 97

when I try to change the data mapping.

make sure you uploaded all the files

[sllik]

Originally Posted by giorgioarmani

How do I upggrade from 2.0.1?

make sure you do all the template changes in between upgrades, reimport the product xml and re upload all the files

[Wakey]

Originally Posted by sllik

I think facebook had a push to their platform and they made some changes... nothing I can do. But if the emails bounce it means that users set their permissions to not receive them.

Its not a permission thing, it bounces on my test account and the settings are set correctly.

Heres the error its giving if its any use

Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; Command died with status 1: " /usr/local/bin/php
/var/www/scripts/xmail/process_proxied_email.php >>/var/log/proxy.log
2>>/var/log/proxy.log". Command output: sh: /var/log/proxy.log: Permission
denied