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.

[mikeB]

Originally Posted by smnet

This mod is dead. Everyone who has installed it is basically screwed because you cannot uninstall it otherwise your members who signed up via facebook wont be able to login.

The author released this mod with bugs, fixed a few... then abandoned it.

What's worse is that this is in the running for mod of the month - I cant believe it. I voted it 'terrible'.

For anyone who disagrees, I would suggest you read this thread properly and then ask yourself if this thread deserves a 'supported' flag. This is the least supported mod I've ever seen.

I'm not being ungrateful - I know releasing mods takes hard work.... but releasing them is easy - supporting them harder. I see no point in releasing a mod, not patching the holes and leaving everyone who has installed it 'trapped' - this sucks.

/rant

It was working fine for me I love it and so do my members - I hired the dev to install and he was there to do it and he couldnt have forseen fb making an internal change the way they did so Im sure he'll fix it

thats my opinion - I have 250 monthly users now so I see this as invaluable and because its so new, you have to cut some slack - its something someone made for free!

[sllik]

It seems there is a problem with the news-feeds after the last facebook update. There is nothing I can do about it, but facebook IS aware of the issue and hopefully they'll fix it soon.

I would suggest you guys disable the news-feeds in your vbconnect settings (set Enable Feeds to No) for now.

[fattony69]

Originally Posted by smnet

This mod is dead. Everyone who has installed it is basically screwed because you cannot uninstall it otherwise your members who signed up via facebook wont be able to login.

The author released this mod with bugs, fixed a few... then abandoned it.

What's worse is that this is in the running for mod of the month - I cant believe it. I voted it 'terrible'.

For anyone who disagrees, I would suggest you read this thread properly and then ask yourself if this thread deserves a 'supported' flag. This is the least supported mod I've ever seen.

I'm not being ungrateful - I know releasing mods takes hard work.... but releasing them is easy - supporting them harder. I see no point in releasing a mod, not patching the holes and leaving everyone who has installed it 'trapped' - this sucks.

/rant

Jeez, calm down. I have been following this mod and he is doing he can. I don't see you being nice. Maybe a thank you. Even donating to help him out? Instead you complain. He has updated the mod many times and talking to facebook, what else do you want?

[FireStorMZ]

When i use http://mysite.com it works but when i use http://www.mysite.com it does not work .. What may be the problem ?

Thank you

[cory_booth]

Cookies probably -
Use .htaccess to redirect all non-www to www

[ULSS]

sllik.. are you still offereing professional installs? I've done most of the steps, but somethings not right, so i've disabled it for now. But i'd like to have you finish it and get it working. Let me know and i'll PP you.. the site is http://BowlingTracker.com

Thanks..

[ljcaswell]

Installed yesterday and works very well, but noticed two issues:

1. When I tried to use the "Use your existing Login" link, it simply let me login with my existing login. It didn't update my Facebook profile or update it when I posted a test post.

2. When I created a new ID on the forum, it asked me if I wanted to grant permission to update Facebook. I tried to click the Publish button, but nothing happened. I clicked cancel, and it logged me in fine, but no messages appeared on my Facebook profile. I went into Facebook and manually granted the app permissions to publish, and now it works fine. I get messages on my Facebook profile when I post, reply etc, but this is obviously not ideal.

[Wakey]

Originally Posted by sllik

It seems there is a problem with the news-feeds after the last facebook update. There is nothing I can do about it, but facebook IS aware of the issue and hopefully they'll fix it soon.

I would suggest you guys disable the news-feeds in your vbconnect settings (set Enable Feeds to No) for now.

What I did was go through all the Facebook Connect Templates looking for calls to FB.Connect.showFeedDialog

Inside all those functions I changed FB.FeedStorySize.oneLine to null. Its not ideal as it now wants to post short stories rather than the one line ones but its a temp fix that works

[cngrock]

Hi

When data mapping I get this show, and it also shows when loading the posts:

query_first(" SELECT fbuid FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "fbuser WHERE userid = " . $userid . " LIMIT 1 "); return intval($user['fbuid']); } function fetch_fbuser_info($query) { require_once(DIR . '/includes/facebook/facebook.php'); global $vbulletin, $db; $fbusers = $db->query_read($query); $fbuids = ""; $vbuids = array(); while ($fbuser = $db->fetch_array($fbusers)) { if ($fbuser['fbuid']) { $fbuids .= $fbuser['fbuid'] . ","; $vbuids[] = $fbuser['userid']; } } $fbuids = rtrim($fbuids, ','); $fbuserinfo = $vbulletin->session->vars['fbuserinfo']; if ($vbulletin->facebook == null) $vbulletin->facebook = new Facebook($vbulletin->options['fbconnect_apikey'], $vbulletin->options['fbconnect_secret']); try { $fbuser = $vbulletin->facebook->api_client->users_getInfo($fbuids, 'name, first_name, last_name, affiliations, pic, pic_small, pic_square'); for ($i = 0; $i < count($fbuser); $i++) $fbuserinfo[$vbuids[$i]] = $fbuser[$i]; $vbulletin->session->set('fbuserinfo', $fbuserinfo); } catch(FacebookRestClientException $ex) { } //print_r($vbulletin->session->vars['fbuserinfo']); } function set_fb_data(&$target, $userid = '', $profilefield = false) { require_once(DIR . '/includes/facebook/facebook.php'); global $vbulletin, $db, $show, $vbphrase, $fb_field_map, $avatarurl; if ($userid) $target['userid'] = $userid; if ($vbulletin->options['fbconnect_importdata'] && $target['userid'] != '') { $fbuserinfo = $vbulletin->session->vars['fbuserinfo']; if (!is_array($fbuserinfo[$target['userid']])) { $fbuid = get_fb_uid($target['userid']); if ($fbuid) { if ($vbulletin->facebook == null) $vbulletin->facebook = new Facebook($vbulletin->options['fbconnect_apikey'], $vbulletin->options['fbconnect_secret']); try { $fbuser = $vbulletin->facebook->api_client->users_getInfo($fbuid, 'name, first_name, last_name, affiliations, pic, pic_small, pic_square'); $fbuserinfo[$target['userid']] = $fbuser[0]; $vbulletin->session->set('fbuserinfo', $fbuserinfo); } catch(FacebookRestClientException $ex) { } } } if (is_array($fbuserinfo[$target['userid']])) { if (!is_array($fb_field_map)) { $fb_field_map = array(); $profile_fields = $db->query_read(" SELECT * FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "fbdatamap "); while ($field = $db->fetch_array($profile_fields)) { $fb_field_map[$field['vbfield']] = $field['fbfield']; } } $not_profile_field = array('avatarurl', 'profilepicurl'); foreach ($fb_field_map as $vbfield => $fbfield) { if ($profilefield && $target['value'] && $target['value'] != $vbphrase['n_a']) continue; if ($target[$vbfield] && pathinfo($target[$vbfield], PATHINFO_BASENAME) != 'unknown.gif') continue; if ($fbfield == 'affiliations') { if (is_array($fbuserinfo[$target['userid']][$fbfield])) { foreach ($fbuserinfo[$target['userid']][$fbfield] as $network) { if ($network['type'] == 'region') { $fbuserinfo[$target['userid']][$fbfield] = $network['name']; break; } } } } if ($profilefield) { if ($vbfield == ('field' . $target['profilefieldid'])) { $target['value'] = $fbuserinfo[$target['userid']][$fbfield]; break; } } else $target[$vbfield] = $fbuserinfo[$target['userid']][$fbfield]; } if ($target['avatarurl']) { $avatarurl = $target['avatarurl']; $show['avatar'] = true; } } } } function print_datamap_row($vbdata, $fbdata, $vbselected = "", $fbselected = "") { global $vbphrase; echo ' '; if ($vbselected) echo '[ '.$vbphrase['delete'].' ]'; echo ' '; }

Any ideas on how to fix.

when I disable the facebook connect - the forums work fine.

Cheers

[smnet]

I honestly presumed that this mod had been abandoned. As such I was annoyed because we've over 100 new members via facebook, so was feeling rather 'trapped' in using a mod that only half works.

I apologise for my outburst sllk.