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.

[Vaupell]

allright installed

But the botton dosent appear to me, (admin) but if i use other browsers
suchs as firefox, chrome it does.
and if i clear all cache date on ie, and logout it appears.


In anycase, regardless of which browser im using the botton is there
dont get any errors, all appears to be fine.
but the link is not working.

clicking the botton like mad, ..... nothing .. lol
and the url it links to is different depending on which browser im using

Chrome = http://www.evisystems.org/#
FireFox = http://www.evisystems.org/ some crazy 32bit link but stil local
IE = http://www.evisystems.org/forums/index.php#

Hell im confused.. but looks great, and the load botton and all works. haha

[KevinL]

maybe check your header and footer edits? Or you might have a javascript error? I think thats what it says above..

[Gamelobby]

Originally Posted by KevinL

Works flawlessly

Thank you

Seriously..!?

How do you tell..?
I dont see anything working or doing anything different on my site.
Just the Facebook connect button, & when i hit it, & fill out the info it supposedly connects, but i dont see any differences on my forums or my Facebook account.

Does it do anything for you as Admin.?
Or have you run test accounts or what.?

[TNCclubman]

Once people log in via Facebook login and it creates an account... Is there a way to send them a pm saying to go in and enter their real email in their profile??

Nevermind, just realized they'll all be in their own group and you can send the group a pm...

[KevinL]

Originally Posted by Gamelobby

Seriously..!?

How do you tell..?
I dont see anything working or doing anything different on my site.
Just the Facebook connect button, & when i hit it, & fill out the info it supposedly connects, but i dont see any differences on my forums or my Facebook account.

Does it do anything for you as Admin.?
Or have you run test accounts or what.?

I logged in created a new thread, it posted to my wall and then I went to my wall and from there it went on to my forum. When I created the thread it asked if I wanted it posted to my wall or not.

Thats what it's supposed to do right?

[KevinL]

Originally Posted by Gamelobby

Seriously..!?

How do you tell..?
I dont see anything working or doing anything different on my site.
Just the Facebook connect button, & when i hit it, & fill out the info it supposedly connects, but i dont see any differences on my forums or my Facebook account.

Does it do anything for you as Admin.?
Or have you run test accounts or what.?

When I go and try and log in to your site it doesn't do anything. All your forums are still locked. It go to like a blank page...

[Gamelobby]

Yes it does appear to work on yours, but once the registration was done i got this..

Thank you, ChiliDawg. Your registration is now complete.

You may now proceed to edit your Profile in order to fill in additional personal details about yourself, or you could modify your Options to customize your browsing experience of this site. If you would rather do these things later, you can do so by following the links around the site to your User Control Panel.

Alternatively, you can simply go back to the Forums and start posting in threads.

Which is all well & good, but then when i click on forums it gives me this..?

ChiliDawg, you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:

Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.

[Gamelobby]

Originally Posted by KevinL

When I go and try and log in to your site it doesn't do anything. All your forums are still locked. It go to like a blank page...

Yea i still got problems.. lol

[Vaupell]

Originally Posted by Vaupell

allright installed

But the botton dosent appear to me, (admin) but if i use other browsers
suchs as firefox, chrome it does.
and if i clear all cache date on ie, and logout it appears.


In anycase, regardless of which browser im using the botton is there
dont get any errors, all appears to be fine.
but the link is not working.

clicking the botton like mad, ..... nothing .. lol
and the url it links to is different depending on which browser im using

Chrome = http://www.evisystems.org/#
FireFox = http://www.evisystems.org/ some crazy 32bit link but stil local
IE = http://www.evisystems.org/forums/index.php#

Hell im confused.. but looks great, and the load botton and all works. haha

Originally Posted by KevinL

maybe check your header and footer edits? Or you might have a javascript error? I think thats what it says above..

naaa no errors

[KevinL]

Originally Posted by Gamelobby

Yes it does appear to work on yours, but once the registration was done i got this..



Which is all well & good, but then when i click on forums it gives me this..?

Thats really weird...it should be exactly like a regular user. I created the usergroup the same as my regular usergroup I actually posted that facebook message while logged in through facebook...

Thanks for letting me know. I have to figure out whats up now...