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.

[bmckinley]

Installed, working great. But, how do I allow other FB users to use the application I created? In order for it to be "Published" I must have 5 people using it? I have spent way too much time on FB trying to figure out how to "share" an unpublished app.

I should probably ask a teenager...they know all the FB stuff...

Any ideas?

[Morrus]

Originally Posted by hydn

I've even sent the $25 to developer and not even a response.

Oh, that's worrying. I paid the $25 by PayPal for the install service yesterday. I'll keep my fingers crossed...

[tldagent]

This is a great add-on and an asset to any online community. Hopefully the developer of this will respond to some of these things and continue development on this. I would also be willing to donate but as I see no responses. The coders last post on this forum was in mid March and since then, nothing.

Is anyone having any luck with this? Anyone out there willing to take the development over in case this coder has become complacent? We'd certainly love to install this but...

Well, hopefully this wonderful mod will be pursued and updated.

[Morrus]

Originally Posted by tldagent

Hopefully the developer of this will respond to some of these things and continue development on this. I would also be willing to donate but as I see no responses. The coders last post on this forum was in mid March and since then, nothing.

Hmmm, now I'm getting more worried. I'm really regretting sending that money now.

[hydn]

Yup 2 months with this one prob:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=819

If he could simply say. This problem is cause by....

This is how all other developers approach things. Esp the humble ones like the great Andrew from links & downloads manager. What a smart guy who treats everyone with respect.

[Morrus]

Just a note in case anyone was following - my $25 installation was completed yesterday and works perfectly. No complaints whatsoever.

[online]

Hello.

I payed $25 dollars to have this installed (by the creator), and now the forum is extremely slow, and we cannot start a thread. It keeps telling me my message is too short and I need to lengthen it to more than 1 character.

Anyone have ideas how to fix it?

[webgroup]

Originally Posted by online

Hello.

I payed $25 dollars to have this installed (by the creator), and now the forum is extremely slow, and we cannot start a thread. It keeps telling me my message is too short and I need to lengthen it to more than 1 character.


Anyone have ideas how to fix it?

I dont think that has something do with this hack.

[webgroup]

I keep receiving this error:

Database error in vBulletin 3.8.2:

Invalid SQL:

SELECT user.*,usertextfield.*,userfield.*, user.userid, options, fbuser.fbuid,
IF(displaygroupid=0, user.usergroupid, displaygroupid) AS displaygroupid, infractiongroupid

,avatar.avatarpath,NOT ISNULL(customavatar.userid) AS hascustomavatar,customavatar.dateline AS avatardateline, customavatar.width AS avwidth, customavatar.height AS avheight

, IF((options & 512 AND user.userid <> 0), 0, lastactivity) AS lastvisittime



FROM vbnewuser AS user
LEFT JOIN vbnewfbuser AS fbuser ON(user.userid = fbuser.userid)
LEFT JOIN vbnewusertextfield AS usertextfield ON(usertextfield.userid=user.userid)
LEFT JOIN vbnewuserfield AS userfield ON(userfield.userid=user.userid)

LEFT JOIN vbnewavatar AS avatar ON(avatar.avatarid = user.avatarid) LEFT JOIN vbnewcustomavatar AS customavatar ON(customavatar.userid = user.userid)



WHERE 1=1
AND (user.usergroupid IN (-1,6,26,18,23,25,7,21,22,2,20,5))

ORDER BY user.username asc
LIMIT 47600, 100;

MySQL Error : Incorrect key file for table '/tmp/#sql_3714_3.MYI'; try to repair it
Error Number : 126
Request Date : Monday, June 29th 2009 @ 08:32:26 AM
Error Date : Monday, June 29th 2009 @ 08:34:23 AM

YES, I know the error looks like a corrupted DB and reparing it will fix it, but no.
I have ran repairs in the DB many times, ALL is fine, still I keep getting this error.

PLease help.

[online]

Originally Posted by webgroup

I dont think that has something do with this hack.

It sure did. It now works for some reason. We had to turn it off to make any post, and make it faster, but now everything seems to be work.