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.

[totogui]

As indicated in the post https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=203262 I have enabled my vbulletin as an application in Facebook. Instead of having Facebook come to you .. you move your forum to Facebook. I don't know if people believe that it is more valuable to extend the forum in Facebook then enabling cross-login but please give it a try and provide me with feedback. Thanks.

[indie2industry]

Originally Posted by tpearl5

I created a file called fb_invite.php. You can see it in action here: http://cellphoneforums.net/fb_invite.php (note that it is uploaded to my forum root)

I haven't tested this fully yet. Make sure under "canvas" on your facebook setting you have it set to FBML. I haven't gotten around getting the canvas page to display correctly either, but that shouldn't matter since you are redirecting the user to your forum home.

You could add a conditional to your pages that say 'if facebook user, display 'invite friends'.

Here's the big question...



When people invite their friends, Will the new person appear as a referral??

example: I invite you using the fb_invite, and you accept the invitation, will my referral count increase???

[tpearl5]

Originally Posted by indie2industry

Here's the big question...



When people invite their friends, Will the new person appear as a referral??

example: I invite you using the fb_invite, and you accept the invitation, will my referral count increase???

never thought of that, but I'm pretty sure that would require some additional coding to pass the username into the referral field.

[indie2industry]

Originally Posted by tpearl5

never thought of that, but I'm pretty sure that would require some additional coding to pass the username into the referral field.

Do you think that would be a possible update. I'll see if I can figure it out also when I get back home.

[BrAinZ]

I still can't get this working

All template edits etc are done 100%, and CONNECT button shows on login screen, but when you click it, it just goes straight back/reloads the login screen.

Any ideas anyone?

[maroceve]

please can someone kindly take a look at my previous post ? Coders ?

[plumbingskool]

Agreed, can someone help me as well with my eariler post

[peppy]

Originally Posted by peppy

Hi

I just installed 2.0.3 and I get a whole page of SQL appear as text when I try and map the fields

query_first(" SELECT fbuid FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "fbuser WHERE userid = " . $userid . " LIMIT 1 "); return intval($user['fbuid']); } function fetch_fbuser_info($query) { require_once(DIR . '/includes/facebook/facebook.php'); global $vbulletin, $db; $fbusers = $db->query_read($query); $fbuids = ""; $vbuids = array(); while ($fbuser = $db->fetch_array($fbusers)) { if ($fbuser['fbuid']) { $fbuids .= $fbuser['fbuid'] . ","; $vbuids[] = $fbuser['userid']; } } $fbuids = rtrim($fbuids, ','); $fbuserinfo = $vbulletin->session->vars['fbuserinfo']; if ($vbulletin->facebook == null) $vbulletin->facebook = new Facebook($vbulletin->options['fbconnect_apikey'], $vbulletin->options['fbconnect_secret']); try { $fbuser = $vbulletin->facebook->api_client->users_getInfo($fbuids, 'name, first_name, last_name, affiliations, pic, pic_small, pic_square'); for ($i = 0; $i < count($fbuser); $i++) $fbuserinfo[$vbuids[$i]] = $fbuser[$i]; $v

etc..

Has anyone else experienced this error? any idea what I might be able to do to resolve it?

[indie2industry]

To those who posted above........

I'm no expert but I'll see if I can figure it out... I'm not promising any results but if I come up with any, I'll post them.

[indie2industry]

Originally Posted by tpearl5

I created a file called fb_invite.php. You can see it in action here: http://cellphoneforums.net/fb_invite.php (note that it is uploaded to my forum root)

I haven't tested this fully yet. Make sure under "canvas" on your facebook setting you have it set to FBML. I haven't gotten around getting the canvas page to display correctly either, but that shouldn't matter since you are redirecting the user to your forum home.

You could add a conditional to your pages that say 'if facebook user, display 'invite friends'.

I just thought of something........


Can someone make an IFrame version of this??

or an FBML version of the facebook connect so they can work together??

Because of how this seems to work, looking at the setting in facebook, you can either use the Facebook Connect (because of the "IFrame" setting) or the fb_invite (because of the "FBML" setting) but not at the same time....