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.

[SoFresh]

I have it installed. I set the settings but when I go to the News Feed Templates, I get this:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /path/to/sofreshforums.com/html/includes/facebook/facebook.php on line 38

[wolfstream]

whats the reason for this?

There's a difference between criticism and ignorance. I have no problem with criticism, but can not stand ignorance. Your comments were based on ignorance of the mod, and how it works. I understand you use the mod, and are looking to make it better, but not understanding how the mod works is no reason to try to take it down.

Originally Posted by SoFresh

I have it installed. I set the settings but when I go to the News Feed Templates, I get this:
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This happens when you haven't met the requirements.
You can not run this with php4 anywhere on the server. Even if you're running both php4 and php5, it won't work.

Lastly, this shouldn't need to be said, but, apparently it does:

I am not the developer of this mod. Please do not pm me for free help. I do provide assistance here in the thread when I can, and for issues that I can help with, but I can not provide free support via PM for another person's mod.

I only say that because I've received numerous requests over the past few days requesting me to "test their mod", "help for free", or "respond to posts". I'm not the developer here. While I am interested in the future of this mod, I can not provide free private support for someone else's mod, when they won't even do it themselves

[ZiG]

lol, now im getting called ignorant. alright dude, thats cool. good luck to you then.
anyway, if that actual developer of this mod reads my posts please take the consideration into some of the suggestions i made as to how it can be further improved in an updated version. its a good mod, deserves mod of the month but it could use more improvements. thanks.

[SoFresh]

well it's a good thing I didn't ask you. hmm. alright then.

[wolfstream]

Originally Posted by ZiG

lol, now im getting called ignorant.

Wrong
I said your post was ignorant, as it is. I never said you were ignorant.

As far as your requests:
All you have to do is look at the mod, and understand it to see that what you're after is already there (sans the email, which is going to be rather hard, if not impossible, to do, given that Facebook doesn't actually give out email addresses). I understand you're new at using it, but that doesn't mean that what you're after isn't already there, as I pointed out.

Originally Posted by SoFresh

well it's a good thing I didn't ask you. hmm. alright then.

If you had to deal with the number of requests (5-10/day) for 'free' support, you'd do something too. I'm happy to help out in this thiread, but at some point, common sense must come into play. MOST people respect the fact that I do what I do here for this mod for nothing, but there are a few that just can't understand that and push the point.

[JohnnieOO]

Yesterday the mod was installed on my forum by the developer. I paid the $25, he was responsive and the mod was installed in a timely manner. No problems so far and it seems to be working fine. Very nice mod in my opinion.

Johnnie

[wolfstream]

The dev is STILL supporting this privately, it just takes a while, and after providing public support for this product as I have, I can understand why.

Here's something new and interesting that may cause a problem with this product. If someone could test and confirm, I'd be greatly appreciated:

It would appear that if you've got the thread (reply/qr/etc) template mods installed, at least temporarily, that your users will not be able to make replies or new threads. I woudln't say this is a permament thing at all, because it appears to be on facebook's end.

How did I verify/find this?

Well, with two themes on the forum, both working 100% an hour ago, the forum stopped allowing posts or threads.

I took one of the themes, reversed the newreply/newthread mods , and that one suddenly allows posts/threads.

How to fix this?

Download the mod, and reverse the newthread/newreply/showthread mods.

Alternatively, you can just wait for facebook to fix it, if they can.

Again, this is just my testing for now, if someone could confirm this is actually a problem at this time (could be resolved in an hour, a half hour, etc), it'd be nice to know.

[wolfstream]

The last issue I reported seems to have cleared up, with no help from me, so this is definitely a facebook thing.

Just keep that in mind if you have the mod installed. This CAN affect posting abilities, maybe not so often, and maybe not too long, but it CAN affect them.

[bposner]

I see this area has calmed down a bit. First of all, I paid the small fee to have the author install this on our system. It worked perfectly. We were really happy with it... as with most of the mods on this board it was free. Free software is great and I appreciate it.
Now in post 851 I posted:

Facebook Connect staff:
We've had this on our site, www.stangsofsouthflorida.com/forum for quite sometime and has worked perfectly. Recently users are complaining that the request to post message pops up every time now. There is no option to shut it off, accept just once. Did something change of Facebook... I only work on this forum occasionally as it is pretty basic and runs itself. I have made no updated or changes to the forum software.


I was wondering if there was ever a solution to this somewhere...
Thanks

[wolfstream]

bposner:

This is the way the system should have always handled things. When a thread or reply is posted, the user should be given the popup to post it to facebook. It hasn't happened every time before?

Realistically, there's no other way to do this one except turn it off permamently (via their usercp).