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.

[PaylaX]

very, very, very beautiful mod, great hack.

thanks...

[CILGINKRAL_]

I did all the arrangements, but does not work.

I need a visual explanation. I am waiting for your help.
Site Links: www.mesken.gen.tr

[wolfstream]

If you follow the instructions, it works. I've posted screenshots and links to those screenshots a number of times in this thread, read through it.

[hydn]

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[hydn]

Originally Posted by RvG2

sllik, kindly fix this uncached template:

Uncached templates: fbconnect_qr_prepare_submit (1)

Bump again

[Wizardjv]

Any chance of getting a version made with the class facebook changed to a different class name? It seems all the facebook mods conflict with each other by calling the same class and you cant do that. So I was wondering if anyone had fixed this simply be renaming the class? I have to look throught it but it would be easier for the person who made it to do

[enginethatcan't]

I have a problem.

I installed it, button shows fine, but when I click connect with facebook nothing happens (the button is "dead"

Roll over my mouse and the path is Http://www.anabolic-evolution.com/forum/#

(my forum)

[wolfstream]

Originally Posted by hydn

Bump again

Bumping threads is inappropriate. If you need to get ahold of the dev, PM them.

Originally Posted by enginethatcan't

I have a problem.

I installed it, button shows fine, but when I click connect with facebook nothing happens (the button is "dead"

Go through the settings, make sure they're correct, because that is where your problem is.
Make sure you've pointed the app properly, as has been described a number of times.

[RileyFreeman]

Originally Posted by wolfstream

Just a quick confirmation, clarification:
Short tags are pretty standard on servers , but there is a workaround for this:


Step 1: Open up fblogin.php and includes/functions_fbconnect.php in your text editor
Step 2: look for

PHP Code:

<?

Step 3: change to

PHP Code:

<?php

step 4: re-upload both files to your webserver where they belong.

Please note:
This WON'T affect most people (short tags are very, very common), but it may affect you.
How do you know if you're affected? Go to yourforumurl/fblogin.php . If it spits out text gibberish, you need to follow those steps. I'd upload fixes to that, but then we get into the whole redistribution of code garbage and I'd really rather not go there.

Also, another tip, because it's come up a lot in the past few months on installs I've done.


This is the #1 cause of all problems. Follow this exactly. Don't set it to http://www.forumdomain.com/ if your forum url is http://www.forumdomain.com/forum/

Common Problem #2?

This should probably be set to your forum URL.

I've included some screenshots of a working app configuration, since this seems to be the biggest hangup right now. The app is setup @ http://www.tvonthebrain.com/ with no trailing forum, or anything, but all you have to do is correct that where necessary, and you're good to go!

are you sure that Session Secret Whitelist Exception has to be set to disabled as shown in screenshots?

I have
* Checked File Permissions and set them to 755
* changed the php short tags into standard ones(<?php)
* Correctly Setup the Facebook App with following settings.

Canvas Callback URL: http://forums.themobileninjas.com/
Connect URL: http://forums.themobileninjas.com
Base Domain: forums.themobileninjas.com
Canvas URL: http://apps.facebook.com/mobileninjas/ ( notice site open correctly while using this link
FBML/iframe: iframe
* Setup Fbconnect product in Vbulletin and mapped default templates
* Modified all templates files as said in INSTALL.html

But nothing happens when I click on on Fbconnect button:|

[wolfstream]

IF you follow the instructions, this app will work, if you don't, it won't. Pretty simple.
Read the instructions, follow them.