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.

[hugh_]

Originally Posted by SdZ

Thank god I backed up before installing this... Everything restored.

What happened?

[webuser00]

Hello,

I have a pretty bad problem. There is a slight bug with facebook connect that sometimes logs new users who register via facebook into the wrong account, and I'm not sure why that is. (For instance 10 facebook connect users will ALL keep getting logged in to the same account, I ended up deleting the account because I didn't know what to do) There is an update for the current plugin (I have 2.05), could that possibly fix the issue?

I'm hesitant to do the upgrade myself because I worry that something could break. Is the update simple or is there a chance that something could go terribly wrong?

Thanks

[marshal_ramdev]

getting this error !

Fatal error:

* Please complete the required field "Email".

Unable to proceed with save while $errors array is not empty in class vB_DataManager_User in [path]/includes/class_dm.php on line 810

[Najoh]

This is not working, error 500 when the plugin ask me the username i want to use.

This page error 500 when enter a login : http://www.information-piscine.com/forum/fblogin.php

Try from the forum : http://www.information-piscine.com/forum/

EDIT : Ok is not compatible with VBSEO...

[marshal_ramdev]

?? anyone ??

[tspasev]

It is awesome ... does it work in vBulletin 4.0.x ? or I have to look to another place ?

[Mum]

It doesn't work in 3.8 either.

[bmckinley]

It worked for us on 3.8.4, but we noticed that when FB was real busy, the call using the API really slowed down our site. Or, even threw an error when FB was really busy. Pageload time were waaaaay up. Nearly 5.94 sec on avg. When I disabled just to check...pageload times back down to .28-.38 sec on avg. So, we currently have the mod disabled.

DOn't get me wrong...excellent mod. And it doesn't add much 'load' on my server, but for us, it's not worth the waiting times to pull from FB.

[cache]

I see there is another facebook mod "YAFB - Yay! Another Facebook Bridge", what is the difference and which one is better?

[Mum]

Neither work with fb at the moment.