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 fulviods

Hi, I installed this mod and opened an application on facebook following all the instructions: i can see the connect button on my forum but when i click on it nothing happens !!

I'm reading all the pages of this thread (im actually at the 26th page, but yet not find a solution...). I'll continue reading, but if someone can already help me it would be coooool !

What version of PHP are you using?

[slo_chewie]

So I linked facebook to my vbulletin account in my forum.

To unlink facebook from that account is it safe to assume all you need to do is open your vbulletin db and go to the fbuser table and delete the row with that shows your vbulletin user id?

[350Chevy]

I'm assuming this is because I'm running a MySQL 4 database but I have not seen anywhere in here anything about MySQL 4 giving any issues (Only saw a post about running PHP 5 which I am indeed running.)

Here's my issue, clicking on the "Connect with Facebook" button does nothing.

In Data Mapping, if I try to associate any vBulletin Field with any facebook Field I receive a database error. Here is one of the errors for example:

Database error in vBulletin 3.8.2:

Invalid SQL:

				INSERT INTO fbdatamap
				(vbfield, fbfield) VALUES ('field1', 'uid')
				ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE fbfield = 'uid';

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 'ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE fbfield = 'uid'' at line 3
Error Number  : 1064
Request Date  : Thursday, June 4th 2009 @ 06:03:41 PM
Error Date    : Thursday, June 4th 2009 @ 06:03:41 PM
Script        : http://www.brain-spew.com/forums/admincp/fbconnect_datamap.php?do=save
Referrer      : http://www.brain-spew.com/forums/admincp/fbconnect_datamap.php
IP Address    : xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Username      : 350Chevy
Classname     : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 4.0.27-max-log

Sorry, I've been out of the loop for a while and used to code a bit but now I'm old and forgetful.

Does this mean I need to convert my DB to MySQL 5? Or is this something simple. TIA

[l3it3r]

Is there any chance of being able to rewrite this for google friend connect?

[fulviods]

Originally Posted by wolfstream

@fulviods :
Go through all the application settings again, something isn't setup properly.
Make sure that you've got the right id/secret in the vBulletin settings, and make sure that you've got the right urls/domain in the facebook app settings. Those are the two important things that are missed when this happens.
.

Thanks for your answer. I dont speak perfectly english. Could you tell me if my infos are ok?
Here are infos in my forum admin:
General settings:
Url of my website : http://www.mywebsite.com
Url of my forums : http://www.mywebsite.com/forum
FB Connect options:
Same API and secret key that in the fb application.
Import user data: no
The system generated 3 different template ID.
Data mapping:
Actually i linked only one field : location ->location
Do I have to create fields in vbulletin to match the others fields? (facebook uid,name,first name...)

Here are the infos in the facebook application:
G?n?ral tab: I just put the name of the application & logo and email.
2nd tab authentification: http://www.mywebsite.com/forum in the 2 fields
3rd tab Profiles: Ony the first chapter (name of the tab and url) and http://www.mywebsite.com for the call back
I didnt fill the other fields
Canvas tab : http://apps.facebook.com/myname / Canvas callback url http://www.mywebsite.com/forum
Optional : i put nothing /Canvas settings : Iframe/intelligent/complete/deactivate other fields empty
Connexion tab: connect url : http://www.mywebsite.com / Base domain : http://www.mywebsite.com other fields empty
widgets: empty
advanced settings: empty

Thanks a lot...

[JohorBahru]

I just upgraded my forum from 3.7 to 3.8, and uninstalled all the mods and including facebook connect for 3.7

After reinstall facebook connect for 3.8, I'm wondering could my members who registered via facebook (previously with facebook connect for 3.7) connect log in to their account again with their facebook account?

need help urgently, thank you

[busybeeburns]

Originally Posted by skylab

These are major issues that I wish I knew earlier. I'm in a difficult position now since many users are using FB Connect.

These are major issues that I wish I knew earlier. I'm in a difficult position now since many users are using FB Connect.

What did you decide to do?

[mmoore5553]

Curious when you log in does the connect with facebook still suppose to stay or should it go away ? i have a custom template and was wondering myself .

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by mmoore5553

Curious when you log in does the connect with facebook still suppose to stay or should it go away ? i have a custom template and was wondering myself .

It's supposed to go away along with the traditional login boxes.

[skylab]

Originally Posted by busybeeburns

What did you decide to do?

Had to keep it. We'll see where this goes. Hopefully it goes well.