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.

[webuser00]

I have your facebook connect plugin installed on my board. My main forum URL is a subdomain http://forums.xxxx.com , which is where I originally installed it. I created a vbadvanced page on my homepage,. xxxx.com . I have a facebook connect button also located there, and it used to always work.. and then all of a sudden it stopped working properly. When I click the facebook connect button from the vbadvanced page it no longer works, and I have to go to the forum root (forums.xxxx.com) for facebook connect to actually work.

Please let me know if you can help me fix this.. it's becoming such a pain.. On my facebook API settings I have the base url set to xxxx.com, so I thought it would work.

[btotw]

Is it possible to force the "Connect with Facebook" dialog box to a different location? Like I want mine to be 100px from the top of the screen INSTEAD of center screen...

...yes, Im nit picking, but for me...hey its what I need

[wolfstream]

Originally Posted by moonclamp

What happens to the user if they decide to disable or delete their facebook account? Will they still show on the memberlist, and will their forum account be disabled too?

Since facebook controls their account, they will only be able to not login. Facebook does not control 3rd party apps, nor does it pass that information on to them.

Originally Posted by moonclamp

... and similarily, what happens to facebook connect member if you get rid of the addon at a later date?

They cease to be able to login, unless you change their profile and manually add an email and password for them. This is WHY it's imperative to keep users from facebook in their own usergroup

Originally Posted by moonclamp

Oh, and what happens if two members are on each others facebook ignore/block list?

I wouldn't think anything, however I haven't seen that situation.

Originally Posted by btotw

...yes, Im nit picking, but for me...hey its what I need

This isn't what you "need", but what you "want". There is a difference between the two.
Can it be done ? I'm sure it can. Go through the files provided by the author and see where this is called.

Originally Posted by webuser00

I have your facebook connect plugin installed on my board. My main forum URL is a subdomain http://forums.xxxx.com , which is where I originally installed it. I created a vbadvanced page on my homepage,. xxxx.com

This isn't going to work at all, you need to pick one and stick with it. Facebook allows you to use one url for your app to "connect" to, and only one. This can either be www.domain or forums.domain.

[bahrainonline]

still facing the same problem, i checked the template 4 times, and checked the facebook application 4 times but still getting that picture

any things to do to find where is the problem exactely

Thanks

[wolfstream]

Then you're doing something wrong, because the app works.

[Joshva]

Hi,

When it automatically friends new fbconnect users's friends. Those friends don't get a friendship back to the new fbconnect user. Is there anyway to resolve this?

[bahrainonline]

Originally Posted by wolfstream

Then you're doing something wrong, because the app works.

Yes thats what i am saying, if i configure the facebook application exactely as you said in your screens shoot, and the templates done as you explained, how can i know where am wrong?

Thanks

[seaweed]

my brain hurts from trying to read all of these post.
I installed and so far I like it an it works.

One problem I have is post in privat forums can be posted to Facebook. This is a problem as I dont want posts from my mod section ending up on Facebook. Id there a way to restrict or set permisions controlling/limiting private forums from being able to post to Face book?

Im sorry if an answer has already been posted, I feel cross eyed from trying to read all the posts.

Kudos to wolfstream for stepping up.

tia
Seaweed

[Wakey]

Originally Posted by seaweed

my brain hurts from trying to read all of these post.
I installed and so far I like it an it works.

One problem I have is post in privat forums can be posted to Facebook. This is a problem as I dont want posts from my mod section ending up on Facebook. Id there a way to restrict or set permisions controlling/limiting private forums from being able to post to Face book?

Im sorry if an answer has already been posted, I feel cross eyed from trying to read all the posts.

Kudos to wolfstream for stepping up.

tia
Seaweed

The posts can't be read so its not a massive issue. Personally I have tried to hack it so it will exclude forums but at the moment I haven't been able to get it to work and if I do will post details here

[ZiG]

Originally Posted by wolfstream

There is, right here:



Uhh, yeah, it is.


It's not a matter of being 'too lazy', it's a matter of being 'more secure'. Think of it. One password, one login, multiple forums. no spam!!! Facebook handles everything, including password and email changes. Now THAT is unique. It's not about being 'too lazy', but keeping everything under one roof. Now, if that one roof caves in, you're screwed, but you still have that one roof


That's good for dig, but the way the facebook API works , the email address is hashed, and the end user (developer) doesn't actually SEE that email address


Nonsense. It takes all of 5 minutes to edit the templates. Why use an "auto template parser" which forces a linkback on every page to a pathetic author? Take 5 minutes, edit the templates, and you're done. This way you KNOW what you're doing, and can actually LEARN from it.



Be careful when playing with that, because you can very easily screw up the setup. The button and link and all that come directly from facebook


See my screenshots a few posts back, make sure your app configuration follows that EXACTLY. That is the #1 reason people get that error

you seem really concerned with picking apart everyones suggestions and criticism of this mod, and im under the impression you believe this mod is perfect. my entire post was pretty much deflected by you, and i notice you doing it to others in this thread as well. whats the reason for this?

if your not willing to accept constructive criticism then...................