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.

[mykkal]

Myspace uses Open ID. If you know that serivce you can. They also have dev API's.

[andrej770]

Ok, I am a new vB owner and I am loving it so far. So, I follow the setup instructions to the "T" for FBC (2.0.5) to start working (template edits and all). Everything appears to be working from a cursory view; I see the FB icon below the login box and when I click it the FB api kicks in and I get the FB login (I haven't gone any further than this yet) - Yes I did all the FB setup per the instructions too!

The question I have is, when in FB Connect Options->Data Mapping->Map Facebook data, only the following vB fields are available in the dropdown to map:

Biography
Location
Interest
Occupation
Profile Picture
Avatar

Yet on the Facebook drop down there are :

Facebook UID
Name
Last Name
First Name
Facebook Profile URL
Profile Picture
Small Profile
Square Profile

I know in the instructions there should be some field mapping. First what fields should I be mapping, second does vB have all the appropriate fields and third, how do I add fields to match FB.

Thanks

Andrej770

Great Mod Silk - donation coming!

[m0nde]

Originally Posted by mykkal

Seems to be working for me. When I post the thread appears as a story on facebook.

myykal. are you able to get this mod working for exisiting members? that is where i am completely stymied.

[RedDevil]

just updated here working fine apart from the avatar has stopped displaying, however this may be due to another hack, a std avatar works fine when set in user cp.


excellent mod.

[ljcaswell]

Originally Posted by m0nde

myykal. are you able to get this mod working for exisiting members? that is where i am completely stymied.

Yes - It works!

I clicked the Connect With Facebook button, clicked the link to login with my existing user name, it logged me in, then I made a test post and it reported it on Facebook.

The only thing I didn't see was a post on Facebook saying that I joined, but that may be because I had joined already with a different user name on the forum.

Great Mod!

[paintballer.ie]

I would like to reinstall this.

Is it safe to say that the latest update fixed some of the main issues people reported?

[Vinyljunky]

I get an error at Step 5 of the setup

Go to FB Connect Options > News-Feed Templates and register default templates. Then Go to FB Connect Options > Settings and save your settings (even if you don't change anything).

I just get an error "Sorry, there has been a page error"

I think it maybe because my host enforces firewall rules

Does this sound feasible?

Could somebody help and tell me what DNS name FB Connect tries to connect to

Thanks

VJ

[mikeB]

got it going 100% again thx for the update!!

[Burnt]

*EDIT* Seemed to have fixed itself later on.... LOL Anyways seems to work!

[m0nde]

I tried it again using the fbConnect button and when I posted a new thread it actually brought up a dialogue to post a message to facebook. That never came up before. Thanks for the 2.05 fix!