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.

[DieselMinded]

Firefox works great but IE users cant even post threads or replies , it just says errors on this page when you hit submit on a new thread or reply , help

'frameWindow.document' is null or not an object

it only does that on IE and when using a facebook connect account

[DieselMinded]

/me uninstalls

[wilburshere]

interesting feature i think ill test this out

[Raun]

I am getting an infinite loading icon and the button never appears. I reverted back to default VB Options and it works. Does anyone know what VB option would cause the infinite load icon to occur? The second that I revert back to my custom options the loading icon comes back.

[emailapphost]

When you make a new post with Facebook Connect you want your Facebook status to link to THE ACTUAL post you just made.
Unfortunately Facebook Connect instead links on your Facebook account to THE FORUM where you made your post, along with every other post on that forum.
So this confuses people who follow the link.

This should be quite easy to fix.

[Merriweather]

Originally Posted by emailapphost

When you make a new post with Facebook Connect you want your Facebook status to link to THE ACTUAL post you just made.
Unfortunately Facebook Connect instead links on your Facebook account to THE FORUM where you made your post, along with every other post on that forum.
So this confuses people who follow the link.

This should be quite easy to fix.

You'd think so, but I was looking at it, and the FB Connect part works BEFORE the post is made, so the threadid hasn't been assigned when the item is posted to FB. It would have to send to FB after the thread has been posted to be able to pass the threadid, I believe.

[Merriweather]

I posted my questions on the wrong thread previously, so here goes:

Another request for specifying which forums can (or can't) use FB Connect. I've wrapped the edits in conditions to use them only in allowed forums, and to use the original template lines in non-allowed forums, but it would be so much easier if there was a DB entry to hold the allowed/disallowed forums and then it would set the conditionals accordingly.

Also, has anyone got the thing to let users edit their settings working? I made the template edits to USERCP_SHELL and modifyprofile, but users who are using FB Connect don't see anything different in the UserCP or in Edit Email & Password.

[testbot]

i think this mod has to be updated. facebook changed the api key i think.

http://forum.developers.facebook.com...c.php?pid=5594

getting this in feeds now:
Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'FacebookRestClientException' with message 'Session key invalid or no longer valid'

[dcevoclub]

I think I missed something, however it doesn't allow current users to logon to their facebook. Where might I look?

[DobieGillis?]

Originally Posted by testbot

i think this mod has to be updated. facebook changed the api key i think.

http://forum.developers.facebook.com...c.php?pid=5594

getting this in feeds now:
Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'FacebookRestClientException' with message 'Session key invalid or no longer valid'

just tested it and it still works fine.