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]

thats awesome... I could use some help because I can't get the reply notification to work. Also... is there a way for it to search the email addresses and contact FB users to let them know on facebook the application is available?

I've got thousands of users (active & inactive) that don't know and won't unless they create a new post. Most users don't post. They read.

[wolfstream]

Originally Posted by mykkal

thats awesome... I could use some help because I can't get the reply notification to work.

What do you mean can't get it to work? Reply notifications (and new thread stuff) work perfectly, showing up in the user's notifications, that is IF they chose to allow the app to do so. Check the application permissions

Originally Posted by mykkal

Also... is there a way for it to search the email addresses and contact FB users to let them know on facebook the application is available?

This is the major beef with this application of a lot of people, but no. All mail is handled through facebook's proxy, for their own notification, etc. This means that you can't email this user directly.

Originally Posted by mykkal

I've got thousands of users (active & inactive) that don't know and won't unless they create a new post. Most users don't post. They read.

This is one of the reasons that it's suggested to setup a separate facebook group, so that you can setup notifications for those groups and whatnot easily enough.

[mykkal]

Originally Posted by wolfstream

What do you mean can't get it to work? Reply notifications (and new thread stuff) work perfectly, showing up in the user's notifications, that is IF they chose to allow the app to do so. Check the application permissions

Well it creates and publishes a new listing when I "submit" a new post on my forum. But never are any replies are published. Nor do I see anything like "mykkal replied to a discussion on MyModelTalk.com". Also it redirects to the forum and not the actual thread itself which is a bit confusing...

Originally Posted by wolfstream

This is the major beef with this application of a lot of people, but no. All mail is handled through facebook's proxy, for their own notification, etc. This means that you can't email this user directly.

I'm not worried about the proxy email address. I do know about that. I think that can be replaced later actually and it only seems applies to new registrations. I want to notify my existing members about the application on facebook itself. So that when they are in their FB profiles they actually see a request to add the application.

Originally Posted by wolfstream

This is one of the reasons that it's suggested to setup a separate facebook group, so that you can setup notifications for those groups and whatnot easily enough.

I have multiple groups with thousands of people. I haven't figured out how to add the application to a group. Are you referring to a fan page? That would be ideal as i'm going to hit the 5,000 friend limit soon.

[mykkal]

Also... A ways back I'd paid the original mod developer to install it.
He installed it but never did the application settings the way I asked him too. So i've basically done the best I could using the instructions.

It could be that these functions are there and not configured properly. Not sure why he didn't do it.

[tafreeh]

i having trouble to setting up new facebook application..

Validation failed.

Base Domain is not valid. Connect URL must be derived from your Base Domain.

[wolfstream]

Check the app settings, as I've said a few times before. If your app settings are correct, and your id's are correct in the vB admin area, it will work, I promise you that. Even on the most advanced systems, this works.

[mykkal]

Originally Posted by wolfstream

Check the app settings, as I've said a few times before. If your app settings are correct, and your id's are correct in the vB admin area, it will work, I promise you that. Even on the most advanced systems, this works.

hey... wasn't sure who you were talking too but i really didn't get an answer to my questions.

[atmo5ph3r]

hi

installed and works fine, but there is problem, my style is vbulletin default style, that width after installing fb connect is over 10 times bigger , how to fix it ?
img :

thanks

[wolfstream]

@ atmo:
Double check your templates, you did something wrong. Most likely you put the footer stuff in the wrong place.

@mykkal:
To set the application to use a new usergroup, create the usergroup, and in the FB Connect settings (in VB) tell it to use that usergroup when users sign up. This will ONLY work with new users, but that's the only usergroup you should need it for.

The redirect to the forum is expected, that's how it works. The notifications themselves will not appear in the user's "page" as it were, but in their status bar, like every other notification from applications.

[atmo5ph3r]

wolf, thanks, yes u r right when i remove :
<!-- fbconnect -->
$fbconnect_init
<!-- / fbconnect -->
template is ok

how to fix it ? ((