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.

[RvG2]

Originally Posted by Armyqt

What is this?




Seriously, someone please help. I would be more than happy to pay to get this done, but how will I ever learn. What has gone wrong here?

It needs php5 for this mod to work. However, I still have mysql 4 but still it works.

[Armyqt]

Originally Posted by RvG2

It needs php5 for this mod to work. However, I still have mysql 4 but still it works.

I don't get it. Can u please answer my other questions regarding step 5 and 7? Thanks.

[Roxie]

Originally Posted by Phaedrus

Couldn't you just turn off that portion of datamapping?

What portion would that be? I don't have anything linking to avatars. hmmm

[RvG2]

sllik, kindly fix this uncached template:

Uncached templates: fbconnect_qr_prepare_submit (1)

[RvG2]

Originally Posted by Armyqt

I don't get it. Can u please answer my other questions regarding step 5 and 7? Thanks.

Step 5:

Go to FB Connect Options > News-Feed Templates and register default templates. Then Go to FB Connect Options > Settings and save your settings (even if you don't change anything).

Just click Default Templates and it will create default feed to your facebook.

Step 7:

Check FB Connect Options > Settings for new settings and FB Connect Options >Data Mapping to map Facebook data.

If you have not added any profile fields basically I have matched two things here: location and profile picture from vbulletin field to Location and profile picture (max: 100 x 300)px to Facebook field.

[Armyqt]

Originally Posted by RvG2

Step 5:

Go to FB Connect Options > News-Feed Templates and register default templates. Then Go to FB Connect Options > Settings and save your settings (even if you don't change anything).

Just click Default Templates and it will create default feed to your facebook.

Step 7:

Check FB Connect Options > Settings for new settings and FB Connect Options >Data Mapping to map Facebook data.

If you have not added any profile fields basically I have matched two things here: location and profile picture from vbulletin field to Location and profile picture (max: 100 x 300)px to Facebook field.

I Must be REALLY stupid because I cannot figure out where these areas are located to even go there. When you say "just click default templates", WHERE is that located. Same ?? for step 7.

There is no FB Connect Options > Settings in my AdminCP.

I really do appreciate your help.

[Armyqt]

If I could get a screenshot of this FB Connect Options screen, that would be nice. This is my last post I promise. My next one will be installed!!

[RvG2]

see this...

[Armyqt]

Originally Posted by RvG2

see this...

Sorry, that didn't help because I don't know how to get to that screen. Maybe my install didn't go through. Please guide me from the AdminCP.

[Armyqt]

Is the FB Connect Options page the one shown in the OP screenshot?