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.

[brockied]

When you select a nickname it keeps saying not available in red text is there a fix for this?.

Great hack
Thanks

[Phaedrus]

Originally Posted by brockied

When you select a nickname it keeps saying not available in red text is there a fix for this?.

Great hack
Thanks

Pick one that isn't used.



Sorry, I couldn't resist.

[RvG2]

It works . . .

Thank you so much.

[Roxie]

Some of my members have avatars turned off, but the board still shows the avatars of members who logged in via FB connect.

[Calash]

Originally Posted by Jon_Simmonds

wouldnt <if condition="forumid=1"> around the template edits in newreply,newthread and showthread (for quick replies) stop the potential news feeds being posted for hidden forums?

going to setup a test board to test a few things before i put this live, and cant do that now, so maybe someone who is in a position to test this idea could?

Basically yes. For a better solution the settings would have to be added to the AdminCP area, the you can have it check against an array, or bitfield in the plugin code.

[Roxie]

The avatar issue is only when Data Mapping is enabled.

[stonner]

How can I set up new news feeds like:

• {*actor*} uploaded new photos. {*albumtitle*}
  
• {*actor*} logged in. {*bbtitle*}
  
• {*actor*} joined/created a group. {*groupname*}
  
• {*actor*} created a blog. {*blogname*}
  
• {*actor*} set a new highscore in the game xyz. {*ibproarcade gamename*}

That would generate Traffic!

Voted for MOTM!

[stonner]

Originally Posted by Pip

on the ibProArcade page I only get get icon - does anybody know why? it's only on that page ...

I'll check out the navbar and footer template later today but maybe anybody has a hint to what I have to look

I have the same problem..

[brockied]

Originally Posted by Phaedrus

Pick one that isn't used.



Sorry, I couldn't resist.

haha thats very funny .

I select a name that not used but it still says the same anyone know how to fix this?

[sllik]

Originally Posted by stonner

Installed and it's working!

How can I translate the News-Feed-Templates? Thank you!

You need to create new ones in your language... Use the "Register New Templates" link.

Originally Posted by stonner

How can I set up new news feeds like:

• {*actor*} uploaded new photos. {*albumtitle*}
  
• {*actor*} logged in. {*bbtitle*}
  
• {*actor*} joined/created a group. {*groupname*}
  
• {*actor*} created a blog. {*blogname*}
  
• {*actor*} set a new highscore in the game xyz. {*ibproarcade gamename*}

That would generate Traffic!

Voted for MOTM!

Thanks for the vote . I might add these feeds in future release.

Originally Posted by brockied

When you select a nickname it keeps saying not available in red text is there a fix for this?.

Great hack
Thanks

There is probably a js error. Make sure you have the news-feed templates registered (see the install instructions for details).

Originally Posted by Phaedrus

Pick one that isn't used.



Sorry, I couldn't resist.

good one

Originally Posted by Pip

on the ibProArcade page I only get get icon - does anybody know why? it's only on that page ...

I'll check out the navbar and footer template later today but maybe anybody has a hint to what I have to look

Does that page have the footer template?