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.

[TimberFloorAu]

Simple Questiuon:
We have installed this, not that I am sure what it does.

However, my question is this, we have created a separate usergroup, and assigned it to facebook option thingy.

But how do existing users become a member of this group, in our case id:16.

Is it done automatically ? or do we have to go in and edit on a one by one basis?

[stryka]

just thought i would add the following info...

i was getting the invalid URL error in version 1.1.2... and i realized the following

the error kept on appearing when the url was written like the following

http://mydomain.com/forums/

but it worked when the url was written like the following

http://www.mydomain.com/forums/

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by jlew24asu

what is your forum URL, homepage URL, and facebook callback url?

please

Well, that is my homepage. The forum and callback are the same: http://www.cogonline.net/forums

The only problem I do have is after logging in on the homepage, it tries to redirect to an fblogin in the root folder.

[soulface]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

The only problem I do have is after logging in on the homepage, it tries to redirect to an fblogin in the root folder.

I'm facing the same problem.. :S

[tormodg]

Originally Posted by sllik

make sure you make the templates changes in the 1.1.1 to 1.1.2 update and Re-upload clientscript/fbconnect.js

This did not solve anything for me. I have the most recent version of all files.

I've uninstalled for now due to too many occasions of being redirected to "fblogin.php" (with a blank page).

I am however amazed at the level of support provided here and will follow this thread and reapply this product when I feel confident that I can make it work.

[sere]

I also have the redirect problem. It appears on Internet Explorer 8 (beta 2) but it doesn't appear on the latest version of Google Chrome (1.0.154.36) where it works fine... I did a clean install of the latest version of the plugin on vBulletin 3.7.0.

[stryka]

Just noticed another quirk...

If i don't login right away... i surf throgh the posts and dpending on where i am on the site it will auto log me in and redirect me to forum page... not a big deal but sometime i just want to browse anonymously and not login...

anyone know what check occurs in the PHP for it to log you in automatically? I ask cuz one of my addons/hacks does not check when i go to the default page... but after i click a specific link it logs me in and takes me to forum ... so one of my PHP's has the login check..

thanks... ltz

ltz

[soulface]

NOTE: News-Feeds will not be posted right now since Facebook has not yet implemented a proper policy for that. But the code IS implemented and will work once Facebook gets their act together (which should hopefully be soon). See http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/...es_to_Facebook
for more details.

I think now you can enable it: http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/...rth_Party_Code

[nascartr]

Originally Posted by soulface

I think now you can enable it: http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/...rth_Party_Code

This would be great!

[sllik]

v1.1.3 has been released!

Those who are having problems please upgrade!

• Re-import the product XML (set overwrite to yes)
• Re-upload fblogin.php