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.

[Jurg]

Originally Posted by Jurg

Please help, getting the following error in options -> news feed templates:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /home/nbb/public_html/includes/facebook/facebook.php on line 38

and the following at top of the screen:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '{' in /home/nbb/public_html/includes/functions.php(5597) : eval()'d code on line 9

I am using PHP 5 so it's not that... Help!

Anyone got a clue what might be causing a problem on my install but not others? My PHP version is 5.2.4

[SpArKs85]

Can someone help me test?

[Brandon Sheley]

I have a quick question about this attachment



is this something we'll host on our server? and can we customize this block?

thanks again, looking great!

[jlew24asu]

Originally Posted by Loco.M

I'm about to add this to one of my forums, but sitting back and watching this thread for right now

I wish I would have done what you say

[stryka]

You can't customize that login... its generated from Facebook...

Originally Posted by Loco.M

I have a quick question about this attachment



is this something we'll host on our server? and can we customize this block?

thanks again, looking great!

[sllik]

Originally Posted by TriMe

Same here, and I'm getting JS errors in IE7. JS seems to work in Firefox, but I have a YouTube video on the homepage that doesn't play in IE7- but does in Firefox, and I suspect this hack is the reason. There is also a pagepeel ad in JS that works in Firefox, but not in IE7.

this is probably happening because you need to install the latest version of flash. It may not look like it, but facebook connect uses flash.

[sllik]

Originally Posted by Jurg

Anyone got a clue what might be causing a problem on my install but not others? My PHP version is 5.2.4

hmmm double check all your server settings.... what does your phpinfo() say?

[sllik]

Originally Posted by SpArKs85

Ok, I've installed it at www.uttertalk.com and no errors as yet...I'm running 3.6.8 and I kinda hopes this works because I don't fancy a new licence, at this time of year

change your callback url to http://uttertalk.com/

[Jurg]

Originally Posted by sllik

hmmm double check all your server settings.... what does your phpinfo() say?

Ah, I've had a look and it's actually 4.4.8

My host's software says it's 5.2.4, guess they've been lying to me! Will have to raise this with them.

Thanks

[Jurg]

Turns out that my host has both versions installed. For those who have the same problem, they just need to create a .htaccess file with the following line:

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php

Works a treat, thanks for the app.