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.

[TNCclubman]

Guys, from what I read, it auto-creates a user on your board, lifts their profile pic, info and friends that are on your board and adds them as friends to their new account on your board.

Sick!

[Gamelobby]

So their is an actual account on our board.
Does that include an email address, for mailers.?

[Vaupell]

Originally Posted by Vaupell

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

Originally Posted by TNCclubman

Guys, from what I read, it auto-creates a user on your board, lifts their profile pic, info and friends that are on your board and adds them as friends to their new account on your board.

Sick!

yes same way i understod it.
Meaning each connecting user is = 1 more registrant/member on your vb.

just tryed adding myself on some of the boards in this post marked
as installed. worked like a charm, and i was in vb as lastest member.
so i guess it BOOSTs registrators..

just hope spambots dont have facebook accounts.

[TNCclubman]

I love the part where it auto adds common friends to their account on registration... sick!

This mod is like magic... Its the David Copperfield of mods...

[Vaupell]

Originally Posted by Gamelobby

So their is an actual account on our board.
Does that include an email address, for mailers.?

try this board if u have a facebook account..
its not mine,, just a random board with this mod installed found in the posts.
http://www.lifeattack.com

well after registration i am unable to edit/change my email.
so dont really know.. when i click to edit my mail i get some FB options
not normal email options.

[TNCclubman]

what happens if a user from your board logs in with facebook when you install this... Is there an email issue when it encounters already that email is in use?

[Vaupell]

hmm allright after testing this on some other sites, ive decided to try and install
tomorrow to see how it works. just pisses me off that i cant change registration
info after registration with this, i wonder if normal vb signups can, or this apply to all.

Quote annoying if admin/mod is needed to change their accounts.

[sllik]

Originally Posted by Ryuk

http://forum.darkness-online.com
The problem is, that im not seeing anything >_< I did check 3 times if I did all the correct template edits, but nothing.. if you need a temp admin account, let me know.

There is a conflict with the Navbar Additions + ShareThis mod!

Originally Posted by RvG2

sllik, just to bump this

noted

Originally Posted by Armyqt

I've upgraded to 3.8.1 and now I can't see the facebook logo anymore. My templates were updated, so what gives?

Do you have the Navbar Additions + ShareThis installed?

Originally Posted by Pip

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:
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

I would suggest you replace:

<!-- fbconnect -->
$fbconnect_init 
<!-- / fbconnect -->

with

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
	var bburl = '$vboptions[bburl]';
//-->
</script>
<script src="http://static.ak.connect.facebook.com/js/api_lib/v0.4/FeatureLoader.js.php" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="$vboptions[bburl]/clientscript/fbconnect.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
	// Main Facebook Connect Javascript Initialization
	FB.init("$vboptions[fbconnect_apikey]", "$vboptions[fbconnect_xd_receiver]"); 
//-->
</script>

and yeah i think that friend thing was a bug... I'll fix it in the next release.

[sllik]

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?

An actual account is created when someone logs in with facebook connect BUT it uses a proxy email address it's a @facebook.com email address and the user will not receive emails unless they allow it.

Originally Posted by Vaupell

try this board if u have a facebook account..
its not mine,, just a random board with this mod installed found in the posts.
http://www.lifeattack.com

well after registration i am unable to edit/change my email.
so dont really know.. when i click to edit my mail i get some FB options
not normal email options.

What I did was allow the user to set if they want to receive emails from your forum. Don't do the USERCP_SHELL & modifyprofile template edits if you want to allow the user to edit their email.

[sllik]

Originally Posted by TNCclubman

what happens if a user from your board logs in with facebook when you install this... Is there an email issue when it encounters already that email is in use?

what kind of problem are you having? (sorry if I missed it in your previous posts)