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.

[m0nde]

Originally Posted by smnet

This will not pair an EXISTING vbulletin user with facebook. Read this thread there are loads of people for whom this is not working. If it IS working for you then you are one of the lucky few.


Can other people with this issue please confirm this so we can (hopefully) get the developer to fix it?

Version 2.0.5 fixed this for me. I can use my existing vBulletin administrator user with this app and it has posted several of my threads and informed me of personal messages.

Now that it IS working, several of my users have commented on how much they like it.

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

yay! thx sllik!! working great.



btw, how does one UNconnect if they want?

[Mr.samy]

thanks for good mod

i install it ...

but work only in firefox and opera not work in ie7 or ie8


and make my style very stretch ...

how can fixed this ?

[x YNWA x]

This has just stopped working for me. I dont know why. My settings are all correct but on the top right corner it just doesnt show up, it has some sort of loading thing in the top right. My board is www.wdwplanningforum.com/forum#

I have recently upgraded my board from 3.73 to the latest version but it says there is no need to upgrade? I am using fbconnect 2.02

Any ideas?

[x YNWA x]

How do I uninstall this?

[Jah-Hools]

Can a default be set to disable transmission of anything not 'publicly' viewable?

To avoid privacy / security issues for admins using PM's or posting in moderator only or member only forums?

Thanks

[nymyth]

I keep on getting that "4 character" error when I use quick reply........

[mizamlar]

thank you

[nymyth]

Originally Posted by smnet

This will not pair an EXISTING vbulletin user with facebook. Read this thread there are loads of people for whom this is not working. If it IS working for you then you are one of the lucky few.


Can other people with this issue please confirm this so we can (hopefully) get the developer to fix it?

that part actually works for me too....none of my existing members had problems connecting via the facebook button...

[smnet]

Originally Posted by nymyth

that part actually works for me too....none of my existing members had problems connecting via the facebook button...

None of my members have a problem connecting via facebook... however they receive no notifications and are not given the option to post a story when they reply or when they start a new thread.... therefore, one has to admit this isnt the same level of integration for existing members, as it is for new users.

If anyone can confirm a true link is established for existing members and not just the ability to log in, then I will remove this mod right now (despite having over a hundred users who have signed up via facebook) and start from scratch.