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.

[Gkzed]

I'm having an issue after installation of the mod. Everything seems to be working fine until I enter my facebook username and password. The next "connect with facebook" screen shows the webpage cannot be found.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance for any help.

[webuser00]

Hey, I need some urgent help

I installed FB connect when it was out for 3.7, and I have version 2.0.2

I have now upgraded to vb 3.8

Facebook connect is still working, but I want to upgrade to 2.0.5

Will I lose my configurations/settings when doing this? Is there a specific way I should go about upgrading?

Thanks so much in advance!

[Tamaz]

I think this is a fantastic mod, but I have one question:

I would like my Facebook-registrants to have the option to fill in who recruited them to the forum, just like when using the normal registration.

This is very important for me so I can have recruitment campaigns. If anyone has an answer I would be very greatful!

Best regards,
Thomas

[Crank!]

Originally Posted by playSocial

Its at Facebooks end I believe. The connect API just seems to refuse some peoples logins even when its correct

Thanks, Figured it out. It was the callback url. was wrong. The mod wors fantastic. People are starting to use it and they love it. This is a great community builder even though it has the major downfall that the members are not really members 100% since their not part of your database membership.
Yes I know you can still email them to their facebook account but that is just not the same.

Great mod anyway and I will use it on most of my sites.

[dadymac]

has anyone had any luck with figuring out what needs to be done to store FB info into the forum db and not just display it?

this would help tremendously for those of us who wanted to use FB as a way of approving members to a private forum.

[realdx]

installed and testing, will be back! thanks!!

[want3ed]

Facebook profile URL option isnot working in my forum.. Could anyone help me with it..

[Raun]

Where is the {*bbtitle*} set? I wanted to change this to display the name of the forums.

[MoveOver.cc]

Hi,

Can someone please help me on the following -

Step 1:


?Set the Callback URL to your vBulletin url (example: http://www.siteurl.com/forum/)

Please advise which part of the application this is found in -

Basic
Authentication
User Profiles
Pages
Canvas
Connect
Widgets
or Advanced

Thanks

[realdx]

I placed everywhere where "callback url" is requested.. I guess I also got the proper one as everything seems to work!! :-D