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.

[Digital Jedi]

The language thing is probably something going on with Facebook, as it's not something that's ever come up before the last couple of days.

[Blacura]

I need help. I have this mod added to my forum and it works great. But i also have vb advanced and thats the most important area i would like members to sign in and its not working. its there but when you click nothing happens. how do i add its functionality to the vbadvanced page

[FitgirlWorld]

so does "current active users" or "Registered users" number increase when they connect?

it still shows all facebook connected people as "guests" when they are on my forum

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by FitgirlWorld

so does "current active users" or "Registered users" number increase when they connect?


it still shows all facebook connected people as "guests" when they are on my forum

No reason why it should. There's nothing different about the accounts other than their connection to Facebook.

[DefenceTalk]

Great mod, just a couple of concerns:

I would like this mod to collect, at least username, email address and allow the users to enter their password, in case facebook doesn't allow external connections.

After installing and using the mod, did anybody see traffic or interaction increase?

Please share.

thanks

[padfoot007]

excellent app took me a while to work it out but this rocks!!!!!!!

[nosretap]

I have a second account that I use to see the 'registered user' view of the forums. For some reason this account always gets associated with other peoples accounts!
First someone else (call her "Dot") posted as this test account because when they registered with Facebook Connect it associated them with my test account. (I deleted the account and then recreated it). Now, when I use Facebook Connect to login with this account, it logs me in as some other user (consistently the same user, but not "Dot").
What is going on? I don't have this problem with my admin account, just this second account. I am only using a different browser (Chrome instead of Firefox) when I log in with this account and am using a different FB profile, so I wouldn't think it is a cookie issue. Any ideas?
Thanks!

[karlm]

Wow, I just added this script to my site - and registration took of all of 5 seconds. Fantastic, incredible even! Five stars, gold stars at that!

[redlabour]

Any Update without the need of Edit Templates?

[AdnElric]

Worked like a charm on the first try. Thanks for the mod!

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