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.

[MotMann]

The description is not clearly.. there are to many Points, where whe don't found anything... maybe all the urls.

And if the user click in the ucp on mail.. then comes the FB Box for a short time, but nothing happened. The Box Closed.. what is wrong?

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by MotMann

The description is not clearly.. there are to many Points, where whe don't found anything... maybe all the urls.


And if the user click in the ucp on mail.. then comes the FB Box for a short time, but nothing happened. The Box Closed.. what is wrong?

I'm not understanding you.

[jiffylb1]

instead of me sedning pay pal money can you send a bill to me and I give you all the login info I ahve installed btu when clicking ona fforum topic in websiet now the page oes blank and when in forum admin when clicking on the 2 lower settings all blank and I am having issues on facebook.
I will be happy to pay for you to isnatll or fix the errors everything has been done just need tweeking for it to work right coudl you send me to webmaster@clearwaterbiker.com a bill and I will pay to have it fixed by you

[skylab]

Worst... mod...for....vb

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by skylab

Worst... mod...for....vb

Right, hence the 833 installs.

[milsirhc]

Template: newreply

Find:
<form action="newreply.php?do=postreply&amp;t=$threadid" name="vbform" method="post"<if condition="!is_browser('webtv')"> onsubmit="return vB_Editor['$editorid'].prepare_submit(0, $vboptions[postminchars])"</if>>

Replace With:
$fb_prepare_submit
<form action="newreply.php?do=postreply&amp;t=$threadid" name="vbform" method="post"<if condition="!is_browser('webtv')"> onsubmit="return fb_prepare_submit(this, 0)"</if>>

This conflicts with GARS as it will prevent the rating function to appear when posting a review.

Is there a workaround for this?

[M.Kay]

Nice Add-on!
But I have a problem. When I click on the Facebook Connect button in IE nothing happens.
In Firefox works perfect.

Any help?

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by M.Kay

Nice Add-on!
But I have a problem. When I click on the Facebook Connect button in IE nothing happens.
In Firefox works perfect.

Any help?

Generally, that's an editing error when doing the template edits.

[hottweelz]

Hi All, I've tried this mod twice, and everytime I make the changes for newthread or postreply.... all of my users lose the ability to post.

Clicking on "Submit Reply" or "Post New Thread" does absolutely nothing. I've reverted those templates and disabled Wall Feeds.

Any Idea... my culprit is right here:

Find:
<form action="newthread.php?do=postthread&amp;f=$forumid " method="post" name="vbform"<if condition="!is_browser('webtv')"> onsubmit="return vB_Editor['$editorid'].prepare_submit(this.subject.value, $vboptions[postminchars])"</if>>

Replace With:
$fb_prepare_submit
<form action="newthread.php?do=postthread&amp;f=$forumid " method="post" name="vbform"<if condition="!is_browser('webtv')"> onsubmit="return fb_prepare_submit(this, this.subject.value)"</if>>

[utahraves]

I have no issues with this on my 3.8 board but the one out there for the 4.0 sucks... would like this one upgraded to the 4.0 version