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]

Am I the only one having problems creating the Facebook app? I'm sure I followed the directions as written, yet I'm constantly met with the same error:

Base Domain is not valid. Connect URL must be derived from your Base Domain.

[fulviods]

Originally Posted by fulviods

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...

Can someone tell me if this settings are ok? :erm:

[fulviods]

I found!!! Shame on me!! There was a spelling error

Only problem i see is that fb users are not assigned to the usergroup i specified in the Default User Group ID. A solution?

[vbreal]

i have a question

when uses sign up via facebook connect they always have to sign in through the facebook connect button?

that causes a problem when users try to log on to my mobile theme. they can't log in with a name and password.

is there a way to fix this?

[wolfyman]

Hay guise!

I'm amazed that I'm the first to have a 500 error... am I?

Everything appears to be working, until I choose a nickname and click to continue. Rather than logging me in, I get a

"The website cannot display the page
HTTP 500
Most likely causes:
The website is under maintenance.
The website has a programming error.
"

Thankssssssssssss!

[shortbus1662]

Update: Nevermind, it was a stupid mistake I made; I tried to import cpnav_ other than the product xml. We are all setup now and I give this 5 out of 5 stars!

[shortbus1662]

It would be nice if users had the User CP option of enabling/disabling the Facebook window from popping up every time they make a post. It would also be great if this app had the ability to allow you to invite friends from your list that are not members of your site.

[Teletubby]

I also would really like "Invite your Friends" (Facebook Friends) feature added to this mod then it would be amazing!

Brad

[vbreal]

sllik
Coder
Last Activity: 24 Apr 2009 17:38



its been a while since the coder has been on. *sigh*

[rrudeboy]

bummer.... my host runs PHP 4.4.9...