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.

[SBlueman]

Will this work for 3.6.12?

[vestaxpdx]

Is this mod still supported? Will there be a version for vb4?

[v4ytH]

Cool stuff
I've installed it on my forums and it runs fine except there's a little glitch..

A few buttons on my forum stopped working everytime i activated facebook connect, like the Thread Tools, Search This Thread buttons and some other buttons on my chatbox.

Anyone experiencing similar issues? Any pointers is greatly appreciated.
Thanks

[Skydiver10]

Now that you mention it, I checked my threads and when I click on thread tools, it only shows the option "Show Printable Version"? Is what you mean?

Edit: Never mind, that changes after I sign in and check it! Dughh!

[Bouncer222]

is it possible to not let people login with their facebook account unless they register the regular way vbulletin is made for users to register? Because I don't want to have people just login using facebook and never register on our site, or does it automatically create a user for them when they login with facebook?

Thanks.

[skylab]

Can't seem to figure out a way to move away from this mod and onto vb nexus. anyone do this? tips?

[Calash]

Originally Posted by skylab

Can't seem to figure out a way to move away from this mod and onto vb nexus. anyone do this? tips?

Check the vBnexus support thread. I posted the relevant queries and experience there.

[Nosfer@tu]

How will this work with Jfusion ?

Why have I not installed this before

[taylorpiano]

ok, there are way too many pages of messages for me to read (84) to find out what this does exactly.
One of my concerns is if users login via Facebook, will that mean our own website will no longer get hits and no longer see the ads that will help fund us running our website?
Does this also still keep track of users last logins and all other related stats on our website?

The other question is on the Benefit listed
* Users can simply login with their Facebook account without going through the registration process.
Our registration forces the user to type in their birthdate, location and a few other fields related to the nature of our website to make an effort to lower or prevent our spammer rate.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by taylorpiano

ok, there are way too many pages of messages for me to read (84) to find out what this does exactly.
One of my concerns is if users login via Facebook, will that mean our own website will no longer get hits and no longer see the ads that will help fund us running our website?
Does this also still keep track of users last logins and all other related stats on our website?

The other question is on the Benefit listed
* Users can simply login with their Facebook account without going through the registration process.
Our registration forces the user to type in their birthdate, location and a few other fields related to the nature of our website to make an effort to lower or prevent our spammer rate.

All this does is log users in or register them via Facebook. It doesn't change anything else you have your forum set up to do.


Anyone notice any changes after the 19th. My templates didn't seem to register after a few hours ago.