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.

[tpearl5]

Originally Posted by indie2industry

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

I honestly wouldn't know how to code around that.

Originally Posted by indie2industry

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....

for what reason? iframe is kind of going backwords. If you really want a canvas page you'd be better off just making one, but It's really not needed since 'the application' is your site. If anything there could be a redirect from the canvas page to your forum.

Keep in mind that when you load http://apps.facebook.com/yourcanvasname it is looking in http://yourcallbackurl.com/ for fbml. This is why you get an error when loading that page - it is looking at index.php

Also, this mode does use fbml.

[Pokerbanter]

So will this work with php 4.4.1???

[tpearl5]

Originally Posted by Pokerbanter

So will this work with php 4.4.1???

as stated several times in the thread and at the top:

Server Requirements:
PHP 5

[mikeB]

ok so I see now it's just PHP 5 req - does anyone know if upgradig to PHP 5 (from 4.x) will afftect Wordpress 2.5 installations? is wp / php 5 ok?

[Bacon Butty]

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

When existing users login with their facebook accounts, they are prompted to create a new nickname? - Prompting questions of "how do those of us who already have accounts here log on with Facebook?"

Any ideas?

[fmckinnon]

Bacon,
That's covered many times in this thread already (I asked the same question many pages back) ... the way it works is this - you can choose a new nickname, or if you already are registered, you can choose "use existing nickname or ID".

So, for members who are already registered, but wish to connect to their FaceBook account, they should enter their FaceBook credentials, then on the next screen, choose "use existing ID".

Great app - FaceBook.Com is now consistently the #1 referring site in our Google Analytics for http://www.theworshipcommunity.com

[dxlwebs]

well i don't know about other poeple but i installed this well over week or two ago and i had the same problem which i posted countless times here and never got areply so i have removed this mod untill i can get a answer to my problems its a good idea just a shame the developer never replied!

[fmckinnon]

sllik,

What an incredible app - thanks for making this. I wonder if you've be interested in coding the same type of app, except for Twitter?

There is already a twitter app that updates your FaceBook status - so I'm guessing the API and code hopefully isn't too complex.

There is also an existing Twitter plugin that I already have installed, that lets you add your twitter ID to your User Profile, and shows your most recent posts.

The next step would be to have that option, just like with FaceBook, so that you could elect to "tweet this post" ... I guess the question is ... if you had both going at once, you'd have multiple popups (tweet this post, facebook this post, etc)

[Hex_legend]

I've posted this under general vb discussions, but this must be something to do with this mod, due to the person in question is a facebook user:


I have a user on my board who's avatar has changed to someone else's album picture - yes, album picture on 2 threads.
It's really random as she has her own avatar, so why is it pulling someone elses album picture and resizing it? It's not doing it on all her threads either.

I have rebuilt all stats and avatars in maintainence, but that's not doing anything.

Anyone have any ideas?

[sllik]

Originally Posted by Hex_legend

I've posted this under general vb discussions, but this must be something to do with this mod, due to the person in question is a facebook user:


I have a user on my board who's avatar has changed to someone else's album picture - yes, album picture on 2 threads.
It's really random as she has her own avatar, so why is it pulling someone elses album picture and resizing it? It's not doing it on all her threads either.

I have rebuilt all stats and avatars in maintainence, but that's not doing anything.

Anyone have any ideas?

An album picture is not possible. It must be his profile picture... Did you upgrade to 2.0.3?