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.

[powerful_rogue]

For some strange reason it allows you to log in using IE7, however when you click on the "connect" box with firefox, no pop up is displayed?!

[hambil]

Last reply from the coder in this thread was 15 days ago... anyone know what's going on? I hope all is well.

[JohorBahru]

Hi,

1. could i install this mod to 3.7.5?

2. could i set "Publish this story to your Facebook profile" enable by default? So it won't prompt every time.

3. could this mod use in quick reply?

4. could normal forum member who already associate their account with facebook connect publish the story to their Facebook profile without login with facebook connect?

Hope anyone could clear my doubt, thank you

[WxP]

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'FacebookRestClientException' with message 'Session key invalid or no longer valid' in /home/wwwforu/public_html/includes/facebook/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php:2403 Stack trace: #0 /home/wwwforu/public_html/includes/facebook/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php(672): FacebookRestClient->call_method('facebook.feed.g...', Array) #1 /home/wwwforu/public_html/administrim/fbconnect_registertemplates.php(87): FacebookRestClient->feed_getRegisteredTemplateBundles() #2 /home/wwwforu/public_html/vbseo.php(1470): require('/home/wwwforu/p...') #3 {main} thrown in /home/wwwforu/public_html/includes/facebook/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php on line 2403

What is this?

[Spaz21]

this may have been answered already.. but theres a ton to read through in these posts... can this addon post threads in a specific forum to a facebook group? our situation is that we run a local car club... and it would be nice if we could have threads from say our Events forum automatically post to our facebook group... can this addon do this? or can this even be done?

[WxP]

after register with facebook connection user can change name but where go at home or profile users get ban!!!

You have been banned for the following reason:
No reason was specified.
Date the ban will be lifted: never

[FireFish]

Newer version is much better Facebook integration than previous version.

Nice job!

[StructuralNet]

Originally Posted by Code Monkey

Thanks Ted S, that saves some time.

I personally don't use Facebook so it's a tough mod to test. I set up an account just to use this. One problem I have is that there are far more options to set up an app than are listed in these instructions. It would be nice if every option is covered.

Yea I hope someone chimes in on this. The included instructions don't connect to whats under the app settings on facebook.

[Benj]

i think it would be cool to have a feature that notifies you when a member is quoted.... just a thought ...

cheers

[Crank!]

I guess I should have read all 34 pages before installing, but I didnt

Anyway, this is the problem I encountered. First of all I only did the required steps. None of the optional edits were done.

I get to the login page and click on the blue banner for facebook connect and it gives me the popup window and I also click there right, well after that is all done it goes back to the login page and says my username and password are incorrect. It says I should use the forgot password form to retrive the password.

Is there a solution for this? What did I not do correctly:

Here is C/P of message (it is in Spanish)

Has introducido un nombre de usuario o contrase?a no v?lido. Por favor presiona regresar, introduce los datos correctos e intenta de nuevo. No olvides que son distintas may?sculas y min?sculas. ?Olvidaste tu contrase?a? Puedes dar clic aqu?.