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.

[dchoi]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

I just visited your website. There is no forum at that URL. There's nothing to callback.

My callback URL is http://www.davidchoimusic.com/forums/ which is what I entered in the 'canvas' tab. I set my base domain to "davidchoimusic.com" in the 'connect' tab. Is there something I did wrong?

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by dchoi

My callback URL is http://www.davidchoimusic.com/forums/ which is what I entered in the 'canvas' tab. I set my base domain to "davidchoimusic.com" in the 'connect' tab. Is there something I did wrong?

I've not seen someone try to use this with no active portal, but I would think it shouldn't matter. If the application is not setting up, only thing I can recommend is double/triple check your spelling and if that doesn't work, start over with a new app.

[GhoHan]

When logout in page i get this message.

fblogout_redirect

How to replace this message?

[dchoi]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

I've not seen someone try to use this with no active portal, but I would think it shouldn't matter. If the application is not setting up, only thing I can recommend is double/triple check your spelling and if that doesn't work, start over with a new app.

I've checked the spelling and tried deleting the old app and creating a new one and I still get the same message. I thought maybe it's because my base domain is on "maintenance mode" so I deactivated that and it still doesn't work. I feel like I'm missing something very obvious here. Do you have any thoughts or other possibilities?

[350Chevy]

I'm going to have to uninstall this until it works properly.

[wolfstream]

Originally Posted by 350Chevy

I'm going to have to uninstall this until it works properly.

This application does work properly, if you set it up properly. If you don't, it won't.

I use this application myself on 2 forums, no problems at all. I've set this application UP on a number of forums, again, no problems at all.

The app works beautifully and does just as it's supposed to.

[webuser00]

Originally Posted by webuser00

Hey guys,

I have version 2.0.2 on my forum, that I installed when I had vb 3.7 , now I have 3.8.

I want to upgrade to the latest version.. But I am unsure how to go about doing it. What's the best way to upgrade from 2.0.2 to 2.0.5? Can I upgrade it directly.. or do I have to upgrade from 2.0.2 to 2.0.3, then to 2.0.4 etc..

please let me know

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

Upgrade instructions should be included in the ZIP file.

I know the instructions are there to upgrade.. but all of them are how to upgrade from 2.0.2 to 2.0.3, or from 2.0.3 to 2.0.4.. etc

I just want to know if I can upgrade to 2.0.5 directly from 2.0.2.. or if I have to upgrade to each version in order until I reach 2.0.5

Please let me know

Thanks!

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by webuser00

I know the instructions are there to upgrade.. but all of them are how to upgrade from 2.0.2 to 2.0.3, or from 2.0.3 to 2.0.4.. etc

I just want to know if I can upgrade to 2.0.5 directly from 2.0.2.. or if I have to upgrade to each version in order until I reach 2.0.5

Please let me know

Thanks!

You would just follow the steps that are missing in between. In your case just

•Import the product XML file (set Allow Overwrite to yes)
•Re-Upload admincp/fbconnect_datamap.php

[dchoi]

Originally Posted by wolfstream

This application does work properly, if you set it up properly. If you don't, it won't.

I use this application myself on 2 forums, no problems at all. I've set this application UP on a number of forums, again, no problems at all.

The app works beautifully and does just as it's supposed to.

Did Facebook change some things recently? I can't even get past step 1 in creating the app and I followed the steps exactly as listed.

[350Chevy]

Originally Posted by wolfstream

This application does work properly, if you set it up properly. If you don't, it won't.

I use this application myself on 2 forums, no problems at all. I've set this application UP on a number of forums, again, no problems at all.

The app works beautifully and does just as it's supposed to.

Being a coder myself and having double and triple checked my settings and having modded and added mods to vBulletin since 2001 without any problems, I'm pretty sure I've set it up "properly." But thanks.

It could have something to do with the older version of SQL I use but I'm not going to go through the pain of upgrading SQL just to "test" if that resolves the issue. Just because you have it working just fine on a completely separate server as mine with a different database doesn't automatically make it work for everyone. :lol: