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.

[powerful_rogue]

Thats strange.

The problem I had was that if someone went to http://mysite.com it would work and it wouldnt work if someone went to http://www.mysite.com

What I did was with this step - Click on the Connect tab and set the Base Domain to your domain (siteurl.com) without the http or www.


I put the www. in and it worked fine

[primetimefans]

wow thanks. That worked, wonders

[powerful_rogue]

Originally Posted by primetimefans

wow thanks. That worked, wonders

No worries. I just wish there was a work around posting stories without have to disable the WYSIWYG editor.

[primetimefans]

I havent made it that far yet. Only did the basic template mods. Will work on the others tonight when I start building the rest of the site.

[wmlvb]

Originally Posted by primetimefans

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

That would not work. I need to separate the facebook users into their proper user groups. It is a academic site that has Parents students, applicants, grads and they each have their own usergroup! so if A facebook user group then they will not be in their proper usergroup. I guess I could add them via "Additional User group" but the problem is they need to be screened and I use email to let them know this. So not sure that would work?

Also, if the Facebook user already has a username and password the now have two usernames. And does the facebook users have a usercp to edit their profile info?

[sensimilla]

Is there any chance the facebook popup windows appears in different language than english ?
TIA

[MadtownHDJunkie]

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '{' in /home/u7/cagmj1313/html/forums/includes/functions.php(5721) : eval()'d code on line 13

i get this error on the top of the page.?

[Crank!]

Can anyone please tell me why I am getting a password and username incorrect message?

That is the furthest I have been able to get with this mod and I want to use it.

Please let me know

Yes I veryfied the password and username is correct

[Mum]

I get an odd problem - when i post a new thread - it posts on my facebook account with a new thread discussion - however it links to the forum, not the thread - isn't this a bit silly? How can i fix this?

[Wakey]

Originally Posted by Crank!

Can anyone please tell me why I am getting a password and username incorrect message?

That is the furthest I have been able to get with this mod and I want to use it.

Please let me know

Yes I veryfied the password and username is correct

Its at Facebooks end I believe. The connect API just seems to refuse some peoples logins even when its correct