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.

[Gizmo999]

Installed and working, big thanks for that.

I use vba and the connect via Facebook option doesn't appear in the standard VBA login box, is there a hack or code I can add to get it to appear there? Or has anyone made a module for this yet?

[Gamelobby]

Originally Posted by KevinL

I don't know why VB doesn't include openID already default. That way it would probably make it easy to link everything together..

Yep.. that would be awesome.!!

[sllik]

Originally Posted by Gamelobby

Thanks.. but what is the difference between "Facebook UID" & "Profile page URL" ..?
Basically same thing.?


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Also, I think this needs to add an icon to your profile or something. some sort of more recognition on the forums.

Facebook UID is your user id like 172011554 and Profile page URL is the actual url to your profile... http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?...54&ref=profile

Originally Posted by klemox

This is a great MOD, thanks to the developer

One quick Q about RSS feeds: I was publishing my VBulletin RSS feeds on my blog page, however after installing the Facebook Connect MOD it got deactivated for some reason.

Any workaround on this?

Advanced thanks for your help.

hmmm thats wierd.... im not sure what would cause this... ill look into it

Originally Posted by TamCaVBoy3

the location doesn't work, it shows as "Array" even though my fb profile said Tokyo Japan ?

it's probably a bug... I'll try to fix it.

Originally Posted by DotSauce

Is this concept possible with Twitter logins through the Twitter API? That would be awesome.

I don't think its possible with twitter api...

Originally Posted by Gizmo999

Installed and working, big thanks for that.

I use vba and the connect via Facebook option doesn't appear in the standard VBA login box, is there a hack or code I can add to get it to appear there? Or has anyone made a module for this yet?

just add:

<!-- fbconnect -->
<center>
<span class="fbconnect" style="height:21px">
<img src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/images/loaders/indicator_white_small.gif" alt="Connect with Facebook" />
</span>
</center>
<!-- / fbconnect -->

to where ever you want the button to apear

[Bill from Cleve]

Installed, works great. Just a thought, maybe you could make a feature where members who are already registered with a board can go into their Usercp and input all their Facebook information to reap the same rewards? Just a thought.

[TNCclubman]

interesting...

Like a link you can put on your site that says 'copy your Facebook info to your profile here'

That would be sick...

[Vaupell]

just thought id bump this mod cause i really appriciate it.
should be on page one, nowhere else.

Think the low install numbers, is due to all the edits,
its scarry when first looking.

But i asure you its worth it, lovely..
im so inlove with the "1 click login!" when im logged out..

[Gizmo999]

thanks Sllik , 2 vba templates modified and its working

[PokerAffiliate]

Great mod, I would love to see way that it would allow new blog posts within VB to be posted to facebook as well. This would be huge.

Likewise, it would be great if there were a simple way for forum members to "click" a button and invite their friends from facebook.

[member007]

Thanks. Works great. By the way, facebook users are not showing in the memberlist. How do you add the code?

[sllik]

Originally Posted by member007

Thanks. Works great. By the way, facebook users are not showing in the memberlist. How do you add the code?

hmmm thats wierd... are they in a special group or something?