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.

[purvish]

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /homepages/6/d291573154/htdocs/Vishforum/forum/includes/facebook/facebook.php on line 38

Error in News-Feed Templates

After Importing Xml And uploading files to server...Help plzz

[wolfstream]

Originally Posted by drsli

It doesn?t work with the wysiwyg-editor. Maybe an interaction with other addons, but this issue occurs not only on my side. And it would make no sense for me to email the dev and then post the possible conversation here (after having him asked for permission) to let the others participate.

Actuallly, it does and doesn't. The editor itself is flaky enough that the slightest thing can turn it off, so it's not recommended to use that at all.

I've got sites where it works FINE with the full editor, and I've got others where it doesn't. The problem in that case isn't the mod, but the editor itself acting up. Switch to 'advanced editor' and you'll be fine.

[wolfstream]

Originally Posted by purvish

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /homepages/6/d291573154/htdocs/Vishforum/forum/includes/facebook/facebook.php on line 38

Error in News-Feed Templates

After Importing Xml And uploading files to server...Help plzz

You're not running a supported version of php. This error shows up when trying to run the mod with php4. Upgrade your php installation

[purvish]

I am using PHP5 Version Sir....Is their any way i can configure something to fix this ?

[wolfstream]

If you're running php4 and php5, then you need to remove php4, as that will still cause issues with the plugin, and run ONLY php5. I've heard a few reports of this as well.

That error wouldn't exist if you were running fully php5, so something, somewhere is pulling php4 information out.

[purvish]

OK thank you very much, i will try to solve like you said if not i will get back to you.

[purvish]

Thank you i have upgraded everything, but now when u log in with that or sync it doest do anything why is that? do i need to get my application approved from facebook or something ? or how to use it ?

thanks, regards
ricky

[wolfstream]

The app doesn't need to be approved by facebook. Make sure you follow the instructions (including setting up the app and templates).

[pgowder]

Is it possible to undo the connection on a user? I need to change the facebook account my vbulletin account it connected to.

How?

[osariase]

HI,
I installed this mod on a Bingo style/ template but I cant find this line below in NAVBAR

<!-- / login form -->

could you please tell me where I can find this on this style

Thanks alot