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.

[RedTrinity]

Originally Posted by GamerGirl27

Thanks for clarifying

I just also read through some posts in the 3.7 version topic for this hack and noticed a few people asking for the option in the ACP to exclude certain forums completely from being published to the news feed.

I'd like to also make this request!

For the time being I'm going to keep the news feed option turned off because of the privacy issue, we have too many private forums which I don't want to risk going to the news feed - even some of the topic titles can be too personal.

But hoping to be able to let our members use it soon if a future version has this change

Thanks Sllik for such a fantastic hack, I've voted it for MOTM

Hi Sllik,

Just wondering if this idea has been considered? It hasn't been acknowledged yet on your part as far as I am aware, so would love to know if its an upcoming feature... or at least a possibility for one.

Cheers

[TNCclubman]

Originally Posted by scottct1

No unfortunately, I wish I was as I liked this mod.

The State of Maine was the first one that I knew blocked us.

Then later on the same day started getting notice that many schools and companies around the country couldn't get to the site reporting that it was blocked as well.

One of my members called the State of Maine IT department who investigated it and told him that we were blocked due to the calls to Facebook. So after that I disabled this and undid all the template changes. The user contracted his friend in the state of maine who had whoever rescan our site and make it available again.

This also opened up the other companies and school systems who were also reporting being blocked. So I am not sure who they use for their blocking database but it seems like they all used the same one.

Please understand I am not putting this mod down, its an excellent mod, I am just reporting what happened to me and my site because of this mod.

Wow! thanks for the heads up!

[GavM]

Any chance we could get a version compatible with vBSEO?

I'd give you many hugs and kisses in return

[PokerAffiliate]

Originally Posted by GavM

Any chance we could get a version compatible with vBSEO?

I'd give you many hugs and kisses in return

I run VBSEO and this mod together and they seem to work fine.

[Capper5016]

Installed, then uninstalled this mod.....now I have two login boxes on my VBAdvanced page, and when I log in it says I'm logged in, but wont log me in. I've reverted all the templates, and uninstalled everything FB related.....could this problem be caused by database tables? If so, what database tables do I need to uninstall.

[bposner]

I just had this installed by the author. Quick repsonses, fast service nice job. Recommended if you are not so clear on what to do or are not a coder.

Tried the login once, went through fine, asked what my nickname should be. Added one, and logged in. We have the system set so you have to be approved manually, and I did. System took in the avator/profile picture as mapped just fine. Showed on my facebook accoun that I joined the site. I posted and replied and subcribed to the thread but this info never showed up, even though I select to publish.

I deleted the account that was created in VB and tried again. The login screen kept looping and when I decided to login in with my regular login, it took me to the FBC screen of asking what my nickname should be. I tried this with a friends FB account too, and the same thing. I have shut down all browsers, cleared cache and same thing. I am using IE7 on Windows Vista 64 bit.

Edit: Just tried again, went to enter nickname and got: Fatal error: Call to a member function shareads() on a non-object in /home5/stangsof/public_html/forum/includes/functions.php(5721) : eval()'d code on line 11

Edit: well seems I was getting notified with all the posts, they were in my notifications, not my wall guess I mis-understood, sorry

Any suggestions ideas, comments or advice greatly appreciated.

[Lone Gunman]

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!

[Wakey]

Originally Posted by Vaupell

again, only if they have accepted to recive notifications, but they wont recive a mail
they will recive notification on facebook.

I got my facebook registrants in a different usergroup, cause they should
not be generated on a mailing list, this is will annoy the post server.

No if they have email notification enabled they will get the email. The email address stored for facebook accounts IS VALID for mails sent from the application

[Capper5016]

Still cant get this mod working. On the VBAdvanced front page there is two log-in boxes, if I try to log-in with the one that has the FB button under it....it tells me I've entered an incorrect user name or password.

If I use the regular login box, it tells me I'm logged in, then redirects to the VBAdvanced page, where I'm still not logged in (The login box is still there with my user name and password, and none of the admin modules are visible). The Navbar also only has the "non-logged in buttons available.

However, I am logged in when I go to the forums, so its only the VBAdvanced front page thats messed up. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling three times now, without any luck. Paid for professional installation this morning and havent heard back yet......

[bposner]

Things seem to be working a lot better now that I gave (per suggestion) persmission to unregistered users to see forum... DOH! Thanks