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.

[Simon Lloyd]

If a guest can simply become registered on your forum without passing the human verification then doesn't that leave you open to spam?

I would love to install this but i wouldn't love the tons of work later deleting the spam, anyone got any guidance on this?

[Phaedrus]

Originally Posted by restless

I'm having a problem getting users who use fbconnect to be put into the appropriate Usergroup.

I created a new usergroup "Facebook", which has the id "17". I put 17 in the FB Connect settings under Default User Group ID. No users are being put in that group.

Any ideas?

It only puts new Facebook users into that group, if you are connecting your Facebook account to a regular member it won't move that member, they maintain their former group.

[restless]

Is there any indicator on the admin side to show what existing users may be using this feature?

[Lone Gunman]

after you type in your nickname while first logging on using this, it just goes to a blank white page. any ideas? i disabled everything else and it still does it.

on IE i get an error on the nickname screen. line 390. char 29. syntax error. code 0. url http://brianslawn.com/forum/fblogin.php

[wicked80]

This is one of the best ever hacks I think for Vbulletin.

I think, you should provide more info on mapping facebook to vbulletin fields. What's the right way to do it?? Should we just create the exact same fields in vbulletin and map them with their corresponding facebook fields????

[Ryuk]

Uhm... still waiting for support as of why its not working on my site <_<

[dadymac]

Originally Posted by wicked80

This is one of the best ever hacks I think for Vbulletin.

I think, you should provide more info on mapping facebook to vbulletin fields. What's the right way to do it?? Should we just create the exact same fields in vbulletin and map them with their corresponding facebook fields????

I am looking for more use of the profile fields too. For example, if you are a private forum and dump all your people who register thru fb connect into a limited visibility usergroup, then a new account in your approvals bucket willl just show their username and the facebook generated unresolved email.

i was hoping to use facebook so i can recognize the person but that cant happen if the fields arent populated other than just login name and an email that we can never recognize visually.

[Simon Lloyd]

anyone use this?, anyone got problems with spam?, i really want to use this mod.

[RedTrinity]

Originally Posted by Ryuk

Uhm... still waiting for support as of why its not working on my site <_<

Dude, you've bumped 3 times in less than 24 hours on the same issue, give the developer a chance to respond hey He hasn't been on for a couple of days, thats why he hasn't given you support yet.

Originally Posted by Simon Lloyd

anyone use this?, anyone got problems with spam?, i really want to use this mod.

Simon, we have been using this for the last couple of days and it works well, no spam problems. The only part we have deactivated is the news feed because of the privacy/permission issue - hopefully this is something that will get looked into soon though in a future release

[Ryuk]

Lol I know I have o_o and IM sorry if anyone took my "Bumps" as a "rude"-like attitude. My intentions are not to be rude but to get some help ^^ thats all.