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.

[Verionia]

Originally Posted by UpFriends

+1 ! I see there is a lot of interest for this in vB4....I'm hoping to see it as well.

Me too!

[xTerMn8R]

Thank you DJ for answering all my questions, One other thing I did notice is that members that Join my Site from Facebook are Not Listed in the Members List from the Navbar menu. I can see them using my admin Panel though...

Thanks again...

[AllinJac]

Hey I don't think any other users have had this problem.. but here is my problem:

On our boards, we just loaded on the script (JUST about flawless by the way, I don't know whats up with anyone's complaints A++ on the install, nice and easy. Only thing that made it NOT flawless, was ME!).. It's running fine - but one of our users (he's ranked as a super-admin) tries to log in, and when he connects through FaceBook it logs him into another admin's account on the forums.. BUT when the user logs in the normal way, it loads his normal account.. they don't have the same FaceBook accounts, obviously or anything similar in the names, so it's not something stupid like a typo in the login.

I'm looking for a response from the developer - you got any idea why one user say, user X, logs in using FBConnect & it puts him onto a different account, account Y. They are both admins, and I can only hope and pray that this doesn't happen with a normal member who gets granted admin powers - so time is of the essence here if you come around, thanks!!

[Bestrafung]

If this has already been posted I apologize, there's just too many pages to read through and I don't know if it's exhaustion or not but I can't find the search this thread feature (is there one?). This has been working great for us but we need to move our forums to a new server and we have issues with this mod. If I disable this mod everything works great but if I enable it I get something similar to this when trying to view posts:

query_first(" SELECT fbuid FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "fbuser WHERE userid = " . $userid . " LIMIT 1 "); return intval($user['fbuid']); } function fetch_fbuser_info($query) { require_once(DIR . '/includes/facebook/facebook.php'); global $vbulletin, $db; $fbusers = $db->query_read($query); $fbuids = ""; $vbuids = array(); while ($fbuser = $db->fetch_array($fbusers)) { if ($fbuser['fbuid']) { $fbuids .=

I only included a little bit but can enable the forums or PM for more code if desired. I created a new facebook app and updated the apikey and secret, tried both upgrade and reinstalling, double checked the fbuser table in the database, and double checked all template edits. I can't figure it out and was hoping someone else might be able to help. Also, apache/mysql/php versions are the same for both servers as this was mentioned for another issue.

Edit: forgot to include some links. Current server fully functioning and new server.

[ngkong]

Originally Posted by UpFriends

+1 ! I see there is a lot of interest for this in vB4....I'm hoping to see it as well.

+1
what an awesome plugin!

[KID_1194]

This is what I got when I used this plugin on vb3.8.4

query_first(" SELECT fbuid FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "fbuser WHERE userid = " . $userid . " LIMIT 1 "); return intval($user['fbuid']); } function fetch_fbuser_info($query) { require_once(DIR . '/includes/facebook/facebook.php'); global $vbulletin, $db; $fbusers = $db->query_read($query); $fbuids = ""; $vbuids = array(); while ($fbuser = $db->fetch_array($fbusers)) { if ($fbuser['fbuid']) { $fbuids .= $fbuser['fbuid'] . ","; $vbuids[] = $fbuser['userid']; } } $fbuids = rtrim($fbuids, ','); $fbuserinfo = $vbulletin->session->vars['fbuserinfo']; if ($vbulletin->facebook == null) $vbulletin->facebook = new Facebook($vbulletin->options['fbconnect_apikey'], $vbulletin->options['fbconnect_secret']); try { $fbuser = $vbulletin->facebook->api_client->users_getInfo($fbuids, 'name, first_name, last_name, affiliations, pic, pic_small, pic_square'); for ($i = 0; $i < count($fbuser); $i++) $fbuserinfo[$vbuids[$i]] = $fbuser[$i]; $vbulletin->session->set('fbuserinfo', $fbuserinfo); } catch(FacebookRestClientException $ex) { } //print_r($vbulletin->session->vars['fbuserinfo']); } function set_fb_data(&$target, $userid = '', $profilefield = false) { require_once(DIR . '/includes/facebook/facebook.php'); global $vbulletin, $db, $show, $vbphrase, $fb_field_map, $avatarurl; if ($userid) $target['userid'] = $userid; if ($vbulletin->options['fbconnect_importdata'] && $target['userid'] != '') { $fbuserinfo = $vbulletin->session->vars['fbuserinfo']; if (!is_array($fbuserinfo[$target['userid']])) { $fbuid = get_fb_uid($target['userid']); if ($fbuid) { if ($vbulletin->facebook == null) $vbulletin->facebook = new Facebook($vbulletin->options['fbconnect_apikey'], $vbulletin->options['fbconnect_secret']); try { $fbuser = $vbulletin->facebook->api_client->users_getInfo($fbuid, 'name, first_name, last_name, affiliations, pic, pic_small, pic_square'); $fbuserinfo[$target['userid']] = $fbuser[0]; $vbulletin->session->set('fbuserinfo', $fbuserinfo); } catch(FacebookRestClientException $ex) { } } } if (is_array($fbuserinfo[$target['userid']])) { if (!is_array($fb_field_map)) { $fb_field_map = array(); $profile_fields = $db->query_read(" SELECT * FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "fbdatamap "); while ($field = $db->fetch_array($profile_fields)) { $fb_field_map[$field['vbfield']] = $field['fbfield']; } } $not_profile_field = array('avatarurl', 'profilepicurl'); foreach ($fb_field_map as $vbfield => $fbfield) { if ($profilefield && $target['value'] && $target['value'] != $vbphrase['n_a']) continue; if ($target[$vbfield] && pathinfo($target[$vbfield], PATHINFO_BASENAME) != 'unknown.gif') continue; if ($fbfield == 'affiliations') { if (is_array($fbuserinfo[$target['userid']][$fbfield])) { foreach ($fbuserinfo[$target['userid']][$fbfield] as $network) { if ($network['type'] == 'region') { $fbuserinfo[$target['userid']][$fbfield] = $network['name']; break; } } } } if ($profilefield) { if ($vbfield == ('field' . $target['profilefieldid'])) { $target['value'] = $fbuserinfo[$target['userid']][$fbfield]; break; } } else $target[$vbfield] = $fbuserinfo[$target['userid']][$fbfield]; } if ($target['avatarurl']) { $avatarurl = $target['avatarurl']; $show['avatar'] = true; } } } } function print_datamap_row($vbdata, $fbdata, $vbselected = "", $fbselected = "") { global $vbphrase; echo ' '; if ($vbselected) echo '[ '.$vbphrase['delete'].' ]'; echo ' '; }

[Bacon Butty]

Originally Posted by Bacon Butty

Any way to prevent the login status php script running when members are already logged in? - even ones without a facebook account.

Any chance anyone can help with this?

Its really driving me insane

Basically, the below intermittently appears;

[LifesGreatestGift]

Will this be upgraded to support 4.x.x?

[jbj]

Im confused with this in the instructions.

Set the Callback URL to your vBulletin url (example: http://www.siteurl.com/forum/)
I see allot of callback url settings.
What specific callback URL do I need to set here?
I see Information Update Callback URL,Post-Authorize Callback URL,Post-Remove Callback URL


Go to the Canvas tab and set the Canvas Page URL (to whatever you want)
What is a canvas page?

Thanks!

[fmckinnon]

Hey,
Has anyone else gotten this warning from Facebook Developers? I'm assuming this is applying to this plugin, as we aren't using any other "facebook connect" features on our site. See below, hope to hear back from the coder. We are running the latest version:

We've been reviewing our logs and see that you're still using Facebook.showFeedDialog, one of the Feed APIs that we deprecated last October. In order to provide you with ample time to complete this transition, we will stop supporting this call on February 16, 2010 at 10AM PST.

We want to remind you that starting on that day, the only way to publish Feed stories into the stream will be via the stream publishing methods (stream.publish, FB.Connect.streamPublish, and Facebook.streamPublish). Posts published using the stream publishing methods contain only structured plain text data, which makes them easier to render on a variety of devices, including mobile phones and gaming consoles.

If you are using the Word Press PlugIn, you should update to the newest version (1.2.0) available here.

We will still publish stories when you call users.setStatus and status.set, but we encourage all developers to migrate to the stream publishing methods, as they let you set a user's status easily.

Read more detail about these changes on the Stream page of our Developer Roadmap.

We originally announced these changes on our Developer blog on October 23rd, 2009, and included another reminder on December 2nd, 2009. Stay up to date on our upcoming changes by referring to our Developer Roadmap. You can also subscribe to our blog posts via email, where we announce major upcoming changes.

Thank you,
The Facebook Developer Network