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.

[DJScorpio]

wow. i seem to have sorted it... just set it as www.loveukmusic.com/forum/xd_receiver.htm

add the "xd_receiver.htm" on the end

[DJScorpio]

BUT now i have another problem! aparently its an applcation! how do i get to the aplication and add it to my page and give it to others to add??? i dont understand all this

[jlew24asu]

Originally Posted by DJScorpio

wow. i seem to have sorted it... just set it as www.loveukmusic.com/forum/xd_receiver.htm

add the "xd_receiver.htm" on the end

on facebook?

[blazinthu]

Originally Posted by jlew24asu

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



merge user ?

What I did was create php files to redirects to the right directory or doamin for example the fblogin.php I creatred a fblogin.php file in the root directory where my CMPS in since its in a different domain and within this I added

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=http://forums.mydomain.com/fblogin.php" />

same for all the needed links in my CMPS.

[DJScorpio]

nope you kno where it says callbk to your forum route or whatever. you do that but on the end of it . add xd_receiver.htm

[sllik]

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.

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???

Hi, what was the issue with CMPS? I want to include a fix in the next release?

[sllik]

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.

A lot of people want this options, so I'm gonna include it in my next release (maybe today).
Thanks!

[sllik]

Originally Posted by xxalexkimxx

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

what's your forum's url?

[TriMe]

Originally Posted by sllik

A lot of people want this options, so I'm gonna include it in my next release (maybe today).
Thanks!

Great stuff! I haven't been able to test this on all browsers. Can someone confirm if it works fine on IE 6,7 and FF 2,3?

[DJScorpio]

my application on facebook isnt working.. but it must be because people can log in on my board. i dont understand