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.

[rigodiaz]

Excellent Work, Thank You!

[navjotjsingh]

Excellent App. Working Perfect.

[filt]

It works fine to create new users but i cannot connect my facebook-account to my own profile. No error or anything.

I get to a page where i click "Want to use your existing username?", i then login with my own login/pass and get logged in to the forum, but im not connected with my facebook account.

No error messages or anything. Forum can be found on http://forum.asien.se

Any ideas?

[fmckinnon]

Hey, the exact same thing happened to me. I have the earlier (pre 3.8) version installed on a 3.7 forum (http://www.theworshipcommunity.com) and it works perfectly - including the ability to use your existing iD ... everything works great.

I just installed this plugin again (the 3.8 version on a new 3.8 forum at http://www.e-businessonline.com) and I'm seeing the same issue ... I choose "use my existing username", I then enter my vbulletin userID/password, and it logs me in as the normal user - does NOT update my FaceBook page.

[filt]

My forum is 3.7

[fmckinnon]

My guess is that whatever files were modified recently on this plugin, they are the culprit - I know that when I downloaded the latest version this week, there seemed to be a few more files and mods to make than when I installed it a couple of months ago. I'm having same trouble you are, so it must not be an issue of 3.7 or 3.8, but an issue w/ the files we're using. Maybe we'll get a code fix or an update?

[Nick26]

I don't know if this has been posted yet or not (so many post to read through).. But if someone can point me in the right direction I would appreciate it.

I had the facebook app installed yesterday.. Now I keep getting this message: The message you have entered is too short. Please lengthen your message to at least 1 characters.when I'm trying to create a post. This has never happen.. I have the setting at 1 so I know that's not the reason.. It didn't do this until after I downloaded the facebook app.
The other Admin of the site is able to post at her home computer, but not at her work. I'm not able to post at either. Has anyone else had this problem before?

[thephonemall]

I had this problem and had to reedit my NEWTHREAD and NEWREPLY templates.
I also uninstalled.
I really would love to get this to work on my 3.8.1
Willing to pay if someone can install this successfully for me.

Originally Posted by Nick26

I don't know if this has been posted yet or not (so many post to read through).. But if someone can point me in the right direction I would appreciate it.

I had the facebook app installed yesterday.. Now I keep getting this message: The message you have entered is too short. Please lengthen your message to at least 1 characters.when I'm trying to create a post. This has never happen.. I have the setting at 1 so I know that's not the reason.. It didn't do this until after I downloaded the facebook app.
The other Admin of the site is able to post at her home computer, but not at her work. I'm not able to post at either. Has anyone else had this problem before?

[Capper5016]

I'll make this suggestion....go get the Add This button. I installed it both on my forum homepage and in the thread and post templates. The Add This button adds the ability to submit stuff to several social bookmarking sites, including Facebook, without editing any templates or installing any mods.

The only issue I havent been able to resolve is making the button visible to guests.....you have to be a registered user to see and use it.

[filt]

Originally Posted by Capper5016

I'll make this suggestion....go get the Add This button. I installed it both on my forum homepage and in the thread and post templates. The Add This button adds the ability to submit stuff to several social bookmarking sites, including Facebook, without editing any templates or installing any mods.

The only issue I havent been able to resolve is making the button visible to guests.....you have to be a registered user to see and use it.

Facebook Connect is ALOT more then just sharing links...