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.

[blazinthu]

Works great I had some issues becasue I am using CMPS so all I did was creat redirects to the necessary files.

My only wish is there a way for current members to use this I don't want them to make new accounts to connect .. does anyone have any ideas???

[jlew24asu]

Originally Posted by blazinthu

Works great I had some issues becasue I am using CMPS so all I did was creat redirects to the necessary files.

can you explain what you did exactly, I use CMPS as well.

Originally Posted by blazinthu

My only wish is there a way for current members to use this I don't want them to make new accounts to connect .. does anyone have any ideas???

merge user ?

[xxalexkimxx]

You have entered an invalid username or password. Please press the back button, enter the correct details and try again. Don't forget that the password is case sensitive. Forgotten your password? Click click

Any idea on that? After choose a nickname and go to the next process it shows that message.

[Boots]

I'd give it a go if:

1. There was a way for an existing user to associate their Facebook credentials with their forum account.

2. There was a way for a Facebook user to login first with their Facebook credentials but also be able to login using a normal vb user/pass should they choose to do so in the future.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by Boots

I'd give it a go if:

1. There was a way for an existing user to associate their Facebook credentials with their forum account.

2. There was a way for a Facebook user to login first with their Facebook credentials but also be able to login using a normal vb user/pass should they choose to do so in the future.

For the first one, you should be able to simply merge the users.

[Boots]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

For the first one, you should be able to simply merge the users.

Easier said than done.. I have over 7,000 registered users. It'd be a nightmare to handle that manually.

[crkgb]

I second the existing user issue. Without it it's a nogo for me.

[L2V]

Originally Posted by Boots

Easier said than done.. I have over 7,000 registered users. It'd be a nightmare to handle that manually.

I question whether *all* of my users would want their accounts merged. Though it may be a pain, I for one think this is still a very powerful tool for getting new members.

[DJScorpio]

The Facebook Connect cross-domain receiver URL http://www.loveukmusic.com/forum/xd_...%220.987%22%7D must have the application's callback URL http://www.loveukmusic.co.uk/forum as a prefix. You can configure the callback URL in the application's settings.

sawsomeone else had a problem but what am i doing wrong?

[jlew24asu]

Originally Posted by DJScorpio

The Facebook Connect cross-domain receiver URL http://www.loveukmusic.com/forum/xd_...%220.987%22%7D must have the application's callback URL http://www.loveukmusic.co.uk/forum as a prefix. You can configure the callback URL in the application's settings.

sawsomeone else had a problem but what am i doing wrong?

I did. slik then posted an upgrade which still didnt work....I also am having trouble logging into my forum at all now. thankfully I dont have many members but I'm still bummed about it.

do yourself a favor..FOLLOW STEP 0. backup backup backup before u install this