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.

[utahraves]

Originally Posted by primetimefans

I have a problem. I followed all the steps properly (I beleive) on my main page I can see the image for FB Connect but when I click on it nothing happens.

on the developers site, did you put the callback url on every section to your forum's page? I had the issue at first because the instructions weren't very clear regarding the callback url insertion. It has to go in EVERY place it asks for one.

[i-Man]

Hello

Is it possible to register automatically an user who connects with his Facebook account?

Thank you.

Best Regards,

Alex

[primetimefans]

I just checked and it was missing on a couple. So I added it to all of them and still the same result. The link when you hover it shows up as /index.html#

[powerful_rogue]

Originally Posted by primetimefans

I just checked and it was missing on a couple. So I added it to all of them and still the same result. The link when you hover it shows up as /index.html#

I had exactly the same problem but managed to solve it.

Is your site http://mysite.com or http://www.mysite.com ?

[primetimefans]

The URL I have listed in VB and Facebook is http://www.mysite.com/forums

(Ps: Man the owner of mysite.com gets a lot of free press )

[primetimefans]

Im using a fresh install of VB3.8.2 (with the google adsense stuff built in)

[powerful_rogue]

ok, try going to http://mysite.com/forums and let me know if it works when you click on the facebook login icon.

[primetimefans]

No it shows the same link with index.php# except it doesnt have the www. part.

I can pm you the url if you like, (or just use my username .com/forums (ignore the homepage that was a test site)) to see if you can see anything that maybe causing it. Its really odd. I even tried to change all the URLS (on vb and facebook) to not include www. But that had no effect either.

[wmlvb]

I guess this is not useful for site that have a lot of private forums and custom user groups and require registration before posting?

[primetimefans]

Sure it would be. You can assign your 'facebook' users a usergroup that you can give certain permissions to.