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]

Originally Posted by wolfstream

The redirect to the forum is expected, that's how it works. The notifications themselves will not appear in the user's "page" as it were, but in their status bar, like every other notification from applications.

You are so awesome. But just to be clear. You mean redirect to the forum and not to the actual thread, right? That's the way its supposed to work? Cause I really wanted it to redirect to the actual thread that was created.

[wolfstream]

@ mykkal
That's one of the quirks about the program. Not sure WHY it does it that way, but that's how it works . I'm sure it wouldn't take that much to do this, but again, I don't want to step on anyone's toes here, by any means.

[mykkal]

Originally Posted by wolfstream

@ mykkal
That's one of the quirks about the program. Not sure WHY it does it that way, but that's how it works . I'm sure it wouldn't take that much to do this, but again, I don't want to step on anyone's toes here, by any means.

The original coder did a great job but he's highly unavailable it seems. If you know what lines needed to be changed i'd be in your debt.

[wolfstream]

Originally Posted by kud0gfx

Can I use it ONLY for already registered users? i know that if a guest connects is registered, but i've a modified register.php, with email marketing and all that crap... so... what would happen with that?

Originally Posted by mykkal

You are so awesome. But just to be clear. You mean redirect to the forum and not to the actual thread, right? That's the way its supposed to work? Cause I really wanted it to redirect to the actual thread that was created.

I've done some digging into the code and fixed both of these issues. Well, the first one wasn't an "issue", but it is more a feature request.

Since the author has pretty much disapeared, I've reported the mod, seeing what it will take to keep this mod alive and me working on it. Until I hear back from the vb.org staff, I won't distribute the XML file that was originally created by the author. Sorry, but I just can't do it.

I agree this is an abandoned project. I'm more than willing to put the life back into it, or to help to do so.

As soon as I receive approval, I'll update the project, IF allowed!!!

Tom

[mykkal]

understood. Thats very respectable and commendable.

[Rvl]

very good thanks

[wolfstream]

Ok, well, that didn't go over too well, apparently. Despite the author's being gone, there's really nothing more I can do here.

I HATE that, because there's just sooooo much good that can come from this application, but if the gods say no, the gods say no.

I'll look through his code, see how impossible it would be to rewrite and SEE (note: see) what I can do. I really can't guarantee much, however.

[PamelaE]

Ok I have added this and it works fineish.

But my facebook friends list is not imported? How does this work?

[tafreeh]

Originally Posted by wolfstream

Check the app settings, as I've said a few times before. If your app settings are correct, and your id's are correct in the vB admin area, it will work, I promise you that. Even on the most advanced systems, this works.

i followed everything as said in the install file, but it didnt seem to work, but i haven do anithing in admin cp.. i was just creating the script first...

[wolfstream]

Originally Posted by PamelaE

Ok I have added this and it works fineish.

But my facebook friends list is not imported? How does this work?

This won't actually "import" friends unless they signup, and I do believe that's one sided, as in your friends will import YOU, but you won't import them, as you already exist. It's a tricky thing there

Originally Posted by tafreeh

i followed everything as said in the install file, but it didnt seem to work, but i haven do anithing in admin cp.. i was just creating the script first...

huh??? I have no clue what you're talking about. You can't actually use the application without doing what the instructions say, and if you didn't "do anything in admincp", you didn't do what the instructions say. Follow the instructions exactly, and you will find that this works.