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.

[Phaedrus]

Originally Posted by solidlink

i have not yet installed this but i got a question which may not sound smart

"This add-on allows your guests and existing users to login with their Facebook account through Facebook Connect."

and

"Benefits of Facebook Connect

* Users can simply login with their Facebook account without going through the registration process."

i dont really get it, does it mean guests dont have to register on my forum?

If they come through using the Facebook Connect it draws information from Facebook and creates an account for them.

They become a registered user.

If you already have a Facebook account and are a member of your board you can connect that Facebook account to the board allowing it to post "stories" or other things like that.

[Ricsca]

Demo?

[morenoy]

only registered users can connect with their facebook accounts right?
or anyone who has facebook can connect to the forums without registration to my forum?

*edit*

Originally Posted by Phaedrus

If they come through using the Facebook Connect it draws information from Facebook and creates an account for them.

They become a registered user.

If you already have a Facebook account and are a member of your board you can connect that Facebook account to the board allowing it to post "stories" or other things like that.

sorry didnt see it
thanks

[christian8a]

wayyy too much template editing, but seems like a nice way to ease the registration for users. Sux my profile pictures and some fields are not close, but to start a new site with this mod is a good idea :up:

[restless]

I'm having a problem getting users who use fbconnect to be put into the appropriate Usergroup.

I created a new usergroup "Facebook", which has the id "17". I put 17 in the FB Connect settings under Default User Group ID. No users are being put in that group.

Any ideas?

[Ryuk]

Uhm.. I dont know... but this is not working o_o
I've done every thing the readme file said, but its not working =O
And yes, I got php 5.2.8 so its not php-related.
Any help on this?
The facebook stuff are not showing up o-o

[TNCclubman]

Automatically befriend user's friends
If any of the user's friends are also registered on the forum, they will automatically be friends!

How does it know who's your friends? By email? Username? Can you explain how this works?

[forexforum]

Works perfectly but yes, the usergroup did not go into the Facebook group I created. It went straight in userid:2 which is Registered Users. Please helP?

[Ryuk]

Im still waiting to know why didnt it work on my forum o_o

[soulface]

I'm still getting the same db error..

Database error in vBulletin 3.8.0:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT location, badlocation FROM session WHERE userid = AND lastactivity > 1232892124 ORDER BY lastactivity DESC LIMIT 1;

MySQL Error : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'AND lastactivity > 1232892124 ORDER BY lastactivity DESC LIMIT 1' at line 1
Error Number : 1064
Request Date : Sunday, January 25th 2009 @ 08:32:04 AM
Error Date : Sunday, January 25th 2009 @ 08:32:04 AM
Script :
Referrer :
IP Address :
Username : Eros
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 4.1.22-standard