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.

[Blacura]

Hey Tom thanks for installing it for me. he is the best folks. but now i am having issues. some of my usergroups can't post any replies or start threads. i had to turn it off after going through every hack i had installed

Originally Posted by wolfstream

Kinosabi,
If you want this installed, let me know, I'll be happy to do it. You can see how well it works by looking at the forum link in my sig. The system works beautifully, as long as you follow the instructions step by step.

I've installed this on a number of forums my own and those not, so I know it works quite well. Feel free to drop me a PM if you want me to take care of this for you.

[wolfstream]

Blacura,

This isn't caused by the mod itself, but by the usergroup and the permissions set forth by them, or by other mods on your forum.

I've never had any problems at all with this specific mod not allowing usergroups to post, or anything of the like. This is a usergroup thing, not a mod thing. Go over your usergroup settings, because you have a problem there, not with the mod.

[Blacura]

I just checked all the forum permissions and they match all the other groups. so why is this one group having issues. only when this mod is enabled this issue happens. any other time the forum works fine

[floggerss]

IAM HAVING THIS PROBLEM

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.

bUT i check the link and it is okei...

[wolfstream]

Originally Posted by floggerss

bUT i check the link and it is okei...

Obviously it's not, otherwise the system would work.

Folks, the plugin works, you just have to follow the instructions. You can't vary one bit from the instructions, otherwise, you get errors.

[wolfyman]

I'm amazed that I'm the first to have a 500 error... am I?

Everything appears to be working, until I choose a nickname and click to continue. Rather than logging me in, I get a

"The website cannot display the page
HTTP 500
Most likely causes:
The website is under maintenance.
The website has a programming error.
"

[wolfstream]

The code doesn't cause a 500 error, settings on your server might, but that's not the fault of the code.

[honie]

I installed this & it seemed fine, but then the button just disappeared. I reinstalled all the edits, but the button is still not showing.

[wolfyman]

Originally Posted by wolfstream

The code doesn't cause a 500 error, settings on your server might, but that's not the fault of the code.

Any ideas where I might start?

Thanks!

[wolfstream]

Originally Posted by honie

I installed this & it seemed fine, but then the button just disappeared. I reinstalled all the edits, but the button is still not showing.

Double check your application settings. Also, if you moved your URL, it will be affected as well.

Originally Posted by wolfyman

Any ideas where I might start?

Thanks!

Check your server's logs, specifically the error log, that will tell you waht you need to do to fix the problem.