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.

[swiftor]

What happens if this mod is turned off (to upgrade to vb4). Do existing accounts made with a FB connect still function properly?

[SteveLV702]

Originally Posted by swiftor

What happens if this mod is turned off (to upgrade to vb4). Do existing accounts made with a FB connect still function properly?

Yes I upgraded one of my forums and turned of FB Connect and everyone was able to still login just fine...

[Sancipa]

can i install my vb4.0 with this mod?

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by inciarco

One Bug:

When I Access an Account with Facebook Connect, it Connects but when I End the Session the Facebook Account is Still Oppened, is I write www.facebook.com on the Browser it Displays the Oppened Account, (very Dangerous if an User Access his/her Account on a Public Computer and isn't Aware that his/her Facebook Account will Remain Oppened even if he/she Ends the Forum Session); is an Open Window for Facebook Security and Privacy Problems.

(This Happens on Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, and Mozilla FireFox, so is a Problem with the Mod and Not the Browser).

Can this be Corrected? How?

This product logs you in via Facebook, not the other way around. You should be using Facebook to log out of the forums. This is true with all (and the point of) Facebook bridges.

I also noticed that when I access the Account with Facebook Connect, I Close the Session, and Click the Facebook Connect Button, it Immediately Access the Account without Displaying the Facebook Login Window; this is Related with the Bug I mentioned before.

Yes, that's what it's supposed to do. If your logged into Facebook, you only need to give it permission once, as with all Facebook apps.

[inciarco]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

This product logs you in via Facebook, not the other way around. You should be using Facebook to log out of the forums. This is true with all (and the point of) Facebook bridges.

Yes, that's what it's supposed to do. If your logged into Facebook, you only need to give it permission once, as with all Facebook apps.

I understand.

Is it Possible for the Application to End the Facebook Session when the the User Ends the vBulletin Session?

I Hope that is Possible.

Meanwhile is Important that WebMasters Warn their Users about this, (a Notice Message), so that if they Login with Facebook they Log Out of Facebook when they Finish their Session on the vBulletin Board.

My Best Regards.

[Benedict]

Originally Posted by obmob

Nice idea, this should be standard in new vb 4.0 ??

agreed

[min0taur]

Any Support for vbulletin suite?

[Bouncer222]

TWO QUESTIONS:

1.With this mod, when someone logs in with their facebook information, does this mod/product create a new account on the site based on their facebook login?

2. When a user is already registered on my site, will they still be able to login with their facebook information? And if the answer to number 1 is a yes, then what if an existing user logs in with his facebook login, will it create a new one?

[skylab]

Originally Posted by Digital Mayhem

Yes I upgraded one of my forums and turned of FB Connect and everyone was able to still login just fine...

wouldn?t their password need to be reset? and what about their email address? they cant reset their password without the correct email which this mod doesnt save.

i?d love to shut this off but it doesnt seem like its possible after so many ppl already registered using FB connect.

[Warlord]

Originally Posted by RWerksman

FYI to all that are reading this thread, there is zero reason to be using this mod anymore. Yay! Another Facebook Bridge is everything this modification is and considerably more, with support and an easier installation:

Facebook new account creation
Facebook to existing account linking
Non-Facebook email requirement
Etc.


I would suggest moving this mod (and the 3.7, 3.6 version of it) to the modification graveyard as there is zero support for it, and there is clearly another mod that duplicates it's functionality and then some.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=223555

I tried YAFB like you said. You talked it up and said how great it was. I think I was better off when I was using this mod (Facebook Connect). Facebook to existing account linking my butt.

So far I'm am NOT a fan of YAFB.