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.

[mmoore5553]

rrude

just call your hosting company and have them update it . It will take five mins if that. It is not hard at all and should not affect anything. I would do it cause php 4 will be old soon and out of date.

[GamerPerfection]

Hi, I have a quick question regarding this.

If a non-member of my forums logs in via their FaceBook account does that then add an account for them on my forums? I'm wondering how it works in relation to a profile etc.

So if they post on the forums do they have a profile, and do they appear in the who's online etc etc.

[Stevie Night]

Originally Posted by clarkey25

Hi, I have a quick question regarding this.

If a non-member of my forums logs in via their FaceBook account does that then add an account for them on my forums? I'm wondering how it works in relation to a profile etc.

So if they post on the forums do they have a profile, and do they appear in the who's online etc etc.

I'd like to know this too before I install lol

[GamerPerfection]

Originally Posted by Stevie Night

I'd like to know this too before I install lol

I've had a read through some of the 50 odd pages in this thread and it seems to be that an account is automatically created and it obtains details from their facebook profile.

Although it wouldn't hurt for one of the 544 people that have installed this to post quickly confirming what happens.

[wolfstream]

Originally Posted by clarkey25

Although it wouldn't hurt for one of the 544 people that have installed this to post quickly confirming what happens.

How many times does it need to be confirmed, really?
I know I've said it a few dozen times myself

[GamerPerfection]

Originally Posted by wolfstream

How many times does it need to be confirmed, really?
I know I've said it a few dozen times myself

Yes but I don't fancy reading through 53 pages.

And instead of making such a comment like that you could have been a bit more helpful.

[Smitty]

Originally Posted by clarkey25

Yes but I don't fancy reading through 53 pages.

You want to be spoon fed as well, eh?

[vbreal]

yes it creats an account automatically

[john graham]

How long does it take if I sign up for professional installation? Signed up today and I thought it would be done between 5 and 8 est but no luck.

[wolfstream]

Originally Posted by john graham

How long does it take if I sign up for professional installation? Signed up today and I thought it would be done between 5 and 8 est but no luck.

Some have said they get it done within hours, but since the owner hasn't shown up here in 2 months, I would think you won't have much luck