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.

[gcxboxps]

Nothing seems to be showing on my forum at all after installing it completely even the optional settings. There's no facebook login button or anything, it's as if I didn't touch my forum at all.

I checked the usergroups to see if I needed to enable it for certain usergroups including my own, and found nothing there, so I'm confused at what else I need to do as I followed it step by step, replaced the lines I needed to and etc.. just as the instructions requested.

Any help is appreciated on this guys, thanks!

[petdoctorforum]

im trying to do this

Import the product XML file and enable it (if not enabled).

but its telling me its invalid?

Actually when i tried to unzip the fbconnect file in my root, in unzipped as empty, so i had to upload the whole package file by file by ftp.


But now im in my forum VB admin, and im on step 3 of the process- "Import the product XML file and enable it (if not enabled)."

when i try to import it, it says the file is invalid.
Actually i tried both the link from the server, and to upload it... neither work??
any suggestion.
Its my first plug in so im a novice....

[PayJ]

Can someone help me install this I can pay them 20 bucks, I also need help installing Flashchat on my forum.

Thanks

[TNCclubman]

This mod needs to be updated. Dont install this... theres been some changes on facebooks part the last few weeks

Wait for the author to release the latest working version...

[petdoctorforum]

This mod needs to be updated. Dont install this... theres been some changes on facebooks part the last few weeks

Wait for the author to release the latest working version...

ok thanks for that... will wait

[arcadian_girl]

damn, I was just about to install it. Hope the author releases an updated version soon

[powerful_rogue]

Originally Posted by arcadian_girl

damn, I was just about to install it. Hope the author releases an updated version soon

I very much doubt it. I think it would be safe to say this mod is "Unsupported" - Last reply to this thread was over two months ago

[nascartr]

I don't have any errors although I used the file from the 3.7 version.

[arcadian_girl]

after reading back thru the thread, I'm gonna pass on this mod. Seemed like such a good idea, but it's got issues, and the developer has not only abandoned it, he seems to be taking ppls money and not responding, so.. yeah.

I hope someone else makes a good version of this - it would help me out SO much.

[TomJames]

That's a pity, was planning on installing this.