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.

[DAIR1]

Right I have a problem. Not sure if ive done something wrong!

Basically whenever I click on the FB connect button and enter my FB username and password I end up being logged in as my Administrator Alias!!

This is not good.

I jumped onto another computer and signed in using a different facebook account.... Again. it logged me in as the Forum Admin!!

[DAIR1]

Also,

The app doesnt seem to care which usergroupe I assign it to. It'll only work me me (the administrator)

[DAIR1]

Originally Posted by nosretap

Still broken:
I have since created a third Facebook account with a separate Email address. Then when I went to the forums and used FB Connect -for the first time with this account- it already associated me with another account (not mine!)
Where can I look to fix this?

Edit: As mentioned before, there is another user seeing the same problem. Has this mod taken in to account "new" Facebook IDs with their longer length?

Im experiencing the same issue.

Not cool as we dont want people logging in as someone other than themselves

[MotMann]

a) Does the Feeds in Facebook comes with a Backlink to the Forum, if i Klick on the headline? or can i read the compete Text in Facebook?

b) And what must older Users do, that hey can connect to Facebook?

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by nosretap

Still broken:
I have since created a third Facebook account with a separate Email address. Then when I went to the forums and used FB Connect -for the first time with this account- it already associated me with another account (not mine!)
Where can I look to fix this?

Edit: As mentioned before, there is another user seeing the same problem. Has this mod taken in to account "new" Facebook IDs with their longer length?

Originally Posted by DAIR1

Im experiencing the same issue.

Not cool as we dont want people logging in as someone other than themselves

You guys aren't really being clear as to what the problem is. What do you mean by it's already associated you with another account? Are you saying that a when testing a new Facebook account, it didn't create a new vB account when you tried to log in, just automatically associated you with an existing vB account? When you just say "account" and don't refer to which one (vB or Facebook, new account or existing account) it's hard to know what exactly you say is happening.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by MotMann

a) Does the Feeds in Facebook comes with a Backlink to the Forum, if i Klick on the headline? or can i read the compete Text in Facebook?

There's a link. No, the posts aren't sent to Facebook.

b) And what must older Users do, that hey can connect to Facebook?

Everyone presses the same Facebook button to log in and they just follow the prompts to create a new vB account or connect a existing one/

[MotMann]

a) I build a Page, but no Threads comes in that Page.. just in my own Userside.
What must i do, that the Feeds comes in the Page (not private).

b) If the user loged in in vB, there is no FB-Button to see.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by MotMann

a) I build a Page, but no Threads comes in that Page.. just in my own Userside.
What must i do, that the Feeds comes in the Page (not private).

They're not supposed to. This isn't meant to be associated with Pages yet. Just Profiles.

b) If the user loged in in vB, there is no FB-Button to see.

There's not supposed to be. You have to log out in order to log in.

[MotMann]

So, for what i create a page?
And i don't like, that the Threads posed in my privatpage.

Is there another way?

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by MotMann

So, for what i create a page?
And i don't like, that the Threads posed in my privatpage.

Is there another way?

Um, I don't know why you created a Page. The instructions didn't tell you to do that. This modification is for using your personal account to log in with and receive notifications at Facebook. The description very clearly specified it would do that. So no, there is no other way.