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.

[mykkal]

Originally Posted by TNCclubman

wow, almost installed this... had a feeling facebook was going to block it somehow...

Facebook won't block thier own API.

[pgowder]

Is there going to be a fix for PhotoPost? I'm using PhotoPost and i would like to use this hack.

So what are the options?

[mrusdy]

ok.. great.. working on my community

[drsli]

Originally Posted by pgowder

Is there going to be a fix for PhotoPost? I'm using PhotoPost and i would like to use this hack.

Any PhotoPost-issue would be a no-go for me too. But as far as I can catch it, only PhotoPost vbGallery is involved, not PhotoPost itself.

[frogster]

"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"

Like stated above those news-feeds are published on the wall when a FB user does them. However, if the same user does one of those actions mentioned above more than once in one day, the old action is replaced with the new action on the FB wall instead of creating two notices on the wall for that day...it only let's you post 1 note on the wall per day. Is this happening to anyone else?

Also, still having the frame problem in where I can't see the submit/cancel buttons.

Sllik, if/when you come back I will be happy to make a donation to get these items fixed.

Thanks.

[GetGamer.com]

I am also still having the problem with the submit/cancel buttons being pushed "off" the iframe.

And new accounts work fine (assuming they are clever enough to TAB to the submit button), but existing forum accounts never get "connected." They login, but there is no Facebook connectivity (same problem smnet is having).

And I agree -- a donation is in order, if this thing can be fixed to work properly.

[mykkal]

Does anyone know how to change your facebook connect login while logged into VB? I have more then one facebook account. I don't need more then one vBulletin account. Sometimes I want threads to be posted on my personal facebook profile. Other times I want things to be posted on my company facebook profile.

[smnet]

Originally Posted by mykkal

Does anyone know how to change your facebook connect login while logged into VB? I have more then one facebook account. I don't need more then one vBulletin account. Sometimes I want threads to be posted on my personal facebook profile. Other times I want things to be posted on my company facebook profile.

Quite simply, that isnt possible, and probabally wont ever be supported in this mod. A way to diss-associate an account is prolly the best you can hope for.

[mykkal]

why isn't it possible? I can do this by changing my login on the facebook site.
But not on mine...

Seems like there should be a way. What makes you say there isnt?

[pgowder]

When someone from FB logs in, does it create a user account for them if there isn't one there already?