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.

[Pip]

Originally Posted by Pip

on the ibProArcade page I only get get icon - does anybody know why? it's only on that page ...

I'll check out the navbar and footer template later today but maybe anybody has a hint to what I have to look

Originally Posted by sllik

Does that page have the footer template?

It has - in the HTML source (in the browser) I also see the fbconnect comments but the JavaScript is missing.

<!-- fbconnect -->

<!-- / fbconnect -->

Looks like $fbconnect_init doesn't contain any data. Any clue why that happens?
If you like to take a look. I use ibProArcade 2.6.8+ - that's the latest version.

By the way:

Automatically befriend user's friends
If any of the user's friends are also registered on the forum, they will automatically be friends!

I tested that with a coworker. My forum account already existed and I used Facebook Connect a few times with my account. My coworker doesn't had a forum account before and used Facebook Connect for creating a forum account. We are both listed as friends on Facebook.
On my forum I appeard in his friend list but he didn't appear in my list.
Was that just a random failure or is it a bug?

Thanks for your help - and again: best mod ever

[Wakey]

Originally Posted by Simon Lloyd

If a guest can simply become registered on your forum without passing the human verification then doesn't that leave you open to spam?

I would love to install this but i wouldn't love the tons of work later deleting the spam, anyone got any guidance on this?

Not really as Facebook required human verification to sign up as well so its still being done

[xxalexkimxx]

I think there's some missing on the instructions. I remember last time you told to put some code in the header and this time I downloaded, it won't work.
Please check.

[xxalexkimxx]

Originally Posted by Ryuk

Uhm... still waiting for support as of why its not working on my site <_<

You need to add some kinda of javascript code in the header in order to get the login pop up, since when you click on the facebook connect icon, nothing pops up!!!!!!!

[RvG2]

Just follow the instructions no less no more. It is guaranteed to work.

[stonner]

Originally Posted by Pip

on the ibProArcade page I only get get icon - does anybody know why? it's only on that page ...

I'll check out the navbar and footer template later today but maybe anybody has a hint to what I have to look

I think this problem is not solved yet?

thank you

[elmati]

I upgraded my forum today to 3.8.1, so I'll test this early

nominated to MOTM and Rated+++

Love this hack

[TNCclubman]

This mod is the Mod of The Year thats for sure.

[Gamelobby]

Originally Posted by hymoo

I like this mod very very much although I see one very big disadvantage.
You decrease your new usersignups since almost everyone has a facebook account.

And I wanna store their database to contact now and then!
Or am I mistaking?

Any news on this..!?
It would be a concern of mine also..

[Vaupell]

Originally Posted by hymoo

I like this mod very very much although I see one very big disadvantage.
You decrease your new usersignups since almost everyone has a facebook account.

And I wanna store their database to contact now and then!

Or am I mistaking?

oh i was under the impression you used your facebook content to autocreate a new
account on that vbulletin, for faster registration. hmm..