Integration with vBulletin - Facebook Connect - Allow your users to login with their Facebook account (for 3.8)

Staff Note: Moved to Graveyard - this will never work now that the old style facebook authentication is no longer available.


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

There is NO NEED to upgrade or reinstall if you already installed this mod for 3.7

Upgrade to 2.0.6 so that users with the new super long IDs will be able to login.


This mod conflicts with PhotoPost vBGallery!
Quick fix:
Disable the following PhotoPost vBGallery plugins:

• Userinfo Merge
• Integrate Postbit Showthread

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!

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.

[jesusdlg]

Hi folks,

I've installed this mod and works nicely with Facebook but as I was testing a earlier today, when I click on the Google, Yahoo, OpenID AIM icon, nothiung happens. Do I need to configure something or make an action elsewhere in order to have that also working?

Also, which usergropup should I use in order to know which users are connected trough this?

Thanks in advance

[solidlink]

doesnt work for me......... facebook icon shows up alright but once i tried it works after that it doesnt. when i click on it, it says that wrong password and leads me to my sites password request page

can anyone test for me?

www.whysg.com

[bilal.ahmed]

Are you working on it to make it compatible for VB4 ????

[RobbieZ]

What happens when you already have a member on your board and they try and log in using their facebook account?

Does this mean you have double accounts??

[Slamey]

My users are getting this error:

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'FacebookRestClientException' with message 'An unknown error occurred' in /home/cleanpic/public_html/includes/facebook/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php:2403 Stack trace: #0 /home/cleanpic/public_html/includes/facebook/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php(1184): FacebookRestClient->call_method('facebook.users....', Array) #1 /home/cleanpic/public_html/fblogin.php(113): FacebookRestClient->users_getInfo('843964590', Array) #2 {main} thrown in /home/cleanpic/public_html/includes/facebook/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php on line 2403

After they choose their nickname and try to login.

[dibbz]

"Developer Last Online: Sep 2009"

Guess I'll have to uninstall it to upgrade to 4, which sucks.

[metrika]

Originally Posted by solidlink

It shows the icon currently, but shows the link as

http://whysg.com/forums/#

Why is that so?

Edit: Seems to work with chrome but not firefox

Me and all my friends and many people have the same error and we did not find the solution readind all the 88 pages on this post. If any one finded the solution, pleas, tell us becouse we are tired of loosing days reading all the pages.

[jiffylb1]

i uninstalled this version and went to 4.0 thread
I installed the facebook version called yfa or something
now it is working great on my 3.8

link here
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=232457

you can see it working on my website at www.clearwaterbiker.biz and also on ur facebook account www.facebook.com/clearwaterbiker

it works great and was simple to use make sure your host is php5.0

[metrika]

I dont have other way, I Rated The Mod: Terrible. I loose a lot of days trying to fix it with out a good answer. Looks like I dont find the answer is econimic interesings on the profesional instalation.
I installed hundreds of mods and "find/remplace" codes usually the installations instructions are clear, with a decent suport.

[want3ed]

i have error when i try yo connect ,

Please help me someone

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