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.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by nascartr

All you gotta have is a Facebook email and password to start with and enter the username you want for the forum and that's it. I don't know what kind of system Facebook uses to register with but in this case we have to hope it's good enough to keep spammers out or else it's very easy to join any forum that uses this mod and spam away.

They require the same thing most forums require. Image verification and email verification.

[nascartr]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

They require the same thing most forums require. Image verification and email verification.

Alright, good know!

[itsbobtista]

I just re-installed everything.. every single file.. running 1.1.2 now.. When I click Connect With Facebook, nothing pops up.. I am using IE7, no pop up blocker or anything.

[DJScorpio]

i have uninstalled this mod untill its up to scratch. at the moment its abit basic. VERY VERY good mod tho . Very good idea. will be huge and most prob used by every VB User in the future.. keep working at it.. i think you should spend a week. take everyones ideas. get them implemented then release a new version instead of releasing 1 everyday . i will be checking back in a few weeks to see the progress. keep up the good work

[Big-K]

Originally Posted by itsbobtista

I just re-installed everything.. every single file.. running 1.1.2 now.. When I click Connect With Facebook, nothing pops up.. I am using IE7, no pop up blocker or anything.

Thats the exact same issue I'm facing. All I get is a "#" sign at the end of the url..nothing else I tried on IE, Firefox, Chrome..same results. I have PHP Version 5.2.5

[BucWiLd]

wow i would love to have this.. seems like it is still in a beta faze. Im gonna wait a bit till the kinks are worked out.. but i cant wait

[nascartr]

Originally Posted by Big-K

Thats the exact same issue I'm facing. All I get is a "#" sign at the end of the url..nothing else I tried on IE, Firefox, Chrome..same results. I have PHP Version 5.2.5

Does it work when you try mine? http://diecastcrazy.com/community/forums.php

If so, then maybe something is wrong with your files or code. If not, then it's something beyond that I guess. It works on all browsers for me.

[nerofix]

I have questions:

1) When login with a facebook account, it will create a vbulletin account right?

2) Once this vb account is created, is the email adress and password also saved in the vb database, so they could login next time without their facebook details and only with their vb account? I ask this because I'm interested what happens if they delete their facebook account, but want to stay in our vbulletin.

3) Which data exactly will be taken from facebook? In example, we have custom profile fields for "real name" .. would it be possible to import this real name data from facebook too?

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by Big-K

Thats the exact same issue I'm facing. All I get is a "#" sign at the end of the url..nothing else I tried on IE, Firefox, Chrome..same results. I have PHP Version 5.2.5

That's all your supposed to see at the end of the URL. It opens a Javascript "window" within thhe window. If your not getting anything, it's likely you need to carefully double check your template edits.

Originally Posted by BuCwIld

wow i would love to have this.. seems like it is still in a beta faze. Im gonna wait a bit till the kinks are worked out.. but i cant wait

I think we're dealing with a whole lot of user error in most cases.

[nascartr]

Originally Posted by nerofix

I have questions:

1) When login with a facebook account, it will create a vbulletin account right?

2) Once this vb account is created, is the email adress and password also saved in the vb database, so they could login next time without their facebook details and only with their vb account? I ask this because I'm interested what happens if they delete their facebook account, but want to stay in our vbulletin.

3) Which data exactly will be taken from facebook? In example, we have custom profile fields for "real name" .. would it be possible to import this real name data from facebook too?

Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm going to try and answer these questions...

1. Yes.

2. No email address is saved or password, only a username. You'd have to manually update the profile if a user wanted to login directly to the forum.

3. No data seems to be taken yet. Hopefully in a future update the coder will figure out how to do this.