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.

[mykkal]

Silk, I sent you a paypal with a request to reinstall my facebook connect mob and configure my facebook application correctly. Did you receive it?

[w3rk3d]

I'm also getting the "dead button" effect. There is no popup, no action at all when I click the Connect with Facebook button. Any suggestions?

[smnet]

Hey Sllik, I sent you a PM to try and pin down an issue i'm having. Will gladly make a donation to get this issue resolved.

[-=Sniper=-]

Originally Posted by mykkal

It's already been days, his plugin has been disabled, rewritten by a moderator, and reinstated. So we're beyond waiting.

Maybe some moderator can confirm? To my knowledge NO moderator has ever rewritten any hack on vb.org...

[smnet]

maybe it's been checked over by a moderator to ensure compliance with some rule set by .org or facebook..... who knows.

[w3rk3d]

Originally Posted by w3rk3d

I'm also getting the "dead button" effect. There is no popup, no action at all when I click the Connect with Facebook button. Any suggestions?

I got this to work...must have been a caching issue with my server. Anyway, how would I go about placing the button (when clicked functions as normal) on a portion of my site outside of VB? i.e. I have a portal site and want this button on the home page. Any way to do this?

[ocdjoey]

Awesome hack, although i have one little problem with it. when a user registers with us through facebook connect, their e-mail address comes up wrong e.g (this is our newest members e-mail)

apps+53644257317.1301568999.37bcfd1feb4b91f7ad7fa4 d39edb05fc@proxymail.facebook.com

[mykkal]

Originally Posted by ocdjoey

Awesome hack, although i have one little problem with it. when a user registers with us through facebook connect, their e-mail address comes up wrong e.g (this is our newest members e-mail)

apps+53644257317.1301568999.37bcfd1feb4b91f7ad7fa4 d39edb05fc@proxymail.facebook.com

That is correct actually. It is called a proxied address. Any mail you send will be converted to text and sent to the member via facebook.

You have to write something to ask them for their email address.

[member007]

I updated from 2.0.3 to 2.0.4 vbulletin version 3.81 and couldn't see the facebook login button at the bottom.

[jdmexperts]

Dose this line that I use look right to you???

<form action="newthread.php?do=postthread&amp;f=$forumid " method="post" name="vbform"<if condition="!is_browser('webtv')"> onsubmit="return fb_prepare_submit(this, this.subject.value)"</if>>

this part looks like it's not right

name="vbform"<if condition="!is_browser('webtv')"> onsubmit="return fb_prepare_submit

the onsubmit part is outside the closing braket and dosent look rignt in dreamweaver