Integration with vBulletin - Facebook Connect - Allow your users to login with their Facebook account

Facebook Connect
This add-on allows your guests and existing users to login with their Facebook account through Facebook Connect.

WORKS WITH 3.8!

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!

How to Upgrade From 2.0.0 to 2.0.1

• Upgrade the product. (Import the product XML again and set overwrite to yes).
• Update Feed Template IDs in the settings (make sure they are the same as at: FB Connect Options -> News-Feed Templates)

How to Upgrade From 2.0.1 to 2.0.2
See UPGRADE.html

• Fixed the notification problem (notifications were sent to wrong people)
• Login button will now be displayed on vbAdvanced pages

How to Upgrade From 2.0.2 to 2.0.3
See UPGRADE.html

• Fixed the Facebook avatar displayed for the wrong people problem.
• Added Facebook UID & Profile URL field to data map.

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.

[3DSJFH]

I was hoping sllik or somebody else could attend my question?

Everything in the install process seems straight forward enough, however making numerous manual modifications to the templates is kind of a bad idea for when you try to update your vB version.

Do you plan to offer an alternative to this? Other add-ons I think use the hook system to avoid this from happening.

Thank you.

[zorag]

I'm having a major issue here, since installing this mod I can't post correctly.

When creating a thread I get:

The following errors occurred with your submission:

1. The message you have entered is too short. Please lengthen your message to at least 10 characters.

Although it's more, and if I use the Quick Reply form I get:

Please click one of the Quick Reply icons in the posts above to activate Quick Reply.

This is only with FireFox? Can anyone else try please http://earner.net

Thanks

[sllik]

Originally Posted by sdsvtdriver

I installed this mod and it works well on the first try. Good job! A couple of questions...



I have the same issue. I logged in with my account with no Facebook picture. I then had friend test the login and his avatar came up. He then changed his avatar. Then, I noticed in posts that I had his old avatar associated with my posts. This is a bug.

fixed!

Originally Posted by 3DSJFH

I was hoping sllik or somebody else could attend my question?

Everything in the install process seems straight forward enough, however making numerous manual modifications to the templates is kind of a bad idea for when you try to update your vB version.

Do you plan to offer an alternative to this? Other add-ons I think use the hook system to avoid this from happening.

Thank you.

There is no alternative right now.

Originally Posted by zorag

I'm having a major issue here, since installing this mod I can't post correctly.

When creating a thread I get:



Although it's more, and if I use the Quick Reply form I get:



This is only with FireFox? Can anyone else try please http://earner.net

Thanks

please see a few posts before... make sure you did all the template edit correctly especially newreply, SHOWTHREAD and newthread. Also go to FB Connect settings and save them (even if you didn't make any changes).

[sllik]

Fixed the bug where wrong avatars (imported from facebook) are being displayed.
Added the request Facebook UID & Profile URL field to the data map.

Taken this mod out from Beta stage.

Enjoy!

[fattony69]

Is it possible that this mod can have auto-template edits?

[sllik]

auto template edits always have problems IMO.

[Vaupell]

tagged but waiting.. using 3.8.0 want to see more succesfully install and use

[Brandon Sheley]

Just wanted to say I finally installed this and it works great

thanks

ps.. that's on a 3.8 board. Transform Topeka Forum

[kursed]

How do I assign a Facebook account to a different VB account? I've set my own Facebook account to link with a test VB account, but would like it linked to my main account.

[Mum]

Originally Posted by sllik

Sorry, this add-on only supports PHP5 for now...

ANy chance of doing this for PHP4?