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.

[ashishtiwari19]

I have installed this mod and enabled users to connect to the forum only through Fconnect. Everyones seems to want to be able to change their names as in - when they connect with Fconnect, their fbook name becomes their user name. Is there a way to change their name or give them anither nick for privacy sake?

[rdavm]

Hi all,

I installed this on my 4.1.3 with i had first to disable because forum home show up blank, also no server side prosessing is done when it is active. The I uinstalled it as anny else would do. Then I got to remember that 4.1.3 has a built in youtube fungtion so I got ahead and activated it, piced all my desired fungtions and linked it to my facebook app with secret codes and what not. Aplied settings, reloaded forum home and now also this time server side didnt do anyting bacuase the page was blank as whit this product.

I think that this product has somehow made my database corrupted or someting.

Now I ask for help to what do do for restore the orginal Vb Utube fungtion so that it work without reinstalling the whole forum. Because I dont want to reinstall as I been up working my but of for 4 days just to configure all the great hacks, prod or plugins all the great programmers here do make.

I am a newbie into PHP and stuggle to find things in AdminCP all the time so please if someone would help, make it with details about what to do because I dont understand PHP code at all.

I thanks on forehand

Rob

[shane1968]

I get this error message when I click Register Default Templates.

Any ideas?

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'FacebookRestClientException' with message 'action_links-href URL is not properly formatted' in /hsphere/local/home/matryx/pngbd.com/forum/includes/facebook/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php:2403 Stack trace: #0 /hsphere/local/home/matryx/pngbd.com/forum/includes/facebook/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php(661): FacebookRestClient->call_method('facebook.feed.r...', Array) #1 /hsphere/local/home/matryx/pngbd.com/forum/admincp/fbconnect_registertemplates.php(34): FacebookRestClient->feed_registerTemplateBundle(Array, Array, NULL, Array) #2 {main} thrown in /hsphere/local/home/matryx/pngbd.com/forum/includes/facebook/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php on line 2403

[eric1]

Warning: require_once([path]/includes/facebook/facebook.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/functions.php(5576) : eval()'d code on line 5

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/exposing/public_html/forum/includes/facebook/facebook.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/exposing/public_html/forum/includes/functions.php(5576) : eval()'d code on line 5

Can anyone help me out? I don't know much about code but I followed the directions and this is the error I get....in fact it has downed my whole forum!

[busybeeburns]

This is a fantastic mod that opens up a host of opportunities for vBulletin communities, however after brutally testing it over the last 24 hours, I have major issues with its neat compatibility with vBulletin. If anyone can help or discuss these I'd be grateful. These are:

1) Changes to Facebook or vBulletin in the future may render this mod incompatible, relying then on support from the developer to bring this mod back in line; if hundreds of administrators are relying on support from a sole developer who decides they are no longer bothered to upgrade for future facebook/vBulletin releases, this will have huge implications for incorrect login functions for potentially millions of registered members across the vBulletin communities.

2) Facebook holds registration details of members, eg. email addresses and passwords. If this mod was ever ditched, I could in theory have thousands of members unable to log in to my forum unless each account was manually altered in admincp. Registered members are unable to do this themselves as changes to email addys or passwords would not be possible as vBulletin would not recognise their original/old details. A logistical nightmare for administrators of large vB communities.

3) It appears that facebook Connect users cannot be contacted via mass email or mass PM add-ons as such users are not found within the database. This effectively renders the use of these important functions useless in the long-term. Especially important should the need arise above where they must take action to continue to log in to the messageboard.

4) I would like to see fblogin.php altered to accept Connect for exisiting vBulletin members only, or tweaked to go via a vB registration process where an vB email address and password can be added. The problems 1-3 above wouldn't exist if this was an alternative installation.

Apart from those important issues the mod is perfect!

[Cystomatic]

Thanks for the share.

Although I keep getting this error at the top of my page.

Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in [path]/includes/class_bootstrap.php(1315) : eval()'d code on line 4

Warning: fetch_template() calls should be replaced by the vB_Template class. Template name: fbconnect_init in [path]/includes/functions.php on line 4183

Warning: fetch_template() calls should be replaced by the vB_Template class. Template name: fbconnect_button in [path]/includes/functions.php on line 4183

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/fashionm/public_html/forum/includes/class_bootstrap.php(414) : eval()'d code(2) : eval()'d code on line 2

[parm775]

After clicking on Connect with facebook icon it goes to the page where user needs to select a Nickname and got to click on Set email notification settings. Is there any way by which I can integrate import email feature on the grant permissions box only or is there anyway by which users can give full permission in one step (most of the users do not click on it and report error).

Thanks

[bmendes]

this works whit VB 3.6.8 ?

[escavern]

im using 3.8.7, after i login to facebook it asked what nickname i want to use,, after i submit it shows 404 Error page, its really frustating me because its worked before.
my website is www.ceriwis.us you can see it urself. thanks

[tx_deputyswife]

I'm sorry if this has been asked already - I searched unsuccessfully but can't go through page-by-page throough 105 pages of replies.

Is it possible to use this but to disable the new-feeds option?