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.

[testbot]

Originally Posted by DobieGillis?

just tested it and it still works fine.

just wondering, how did you test it?

i only see the error when i go to vbadmin>FB Connect Options>News-Feed Templates

[hbalagh1]

i have this problem with "Base Domain is not valid" no matter what url i put in with or w/o www. or any combination i still get the same thing...any help?

[Gkzed]

Originally Posted by 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.

Anybody have an idea how to resolve this?

[madotds]

Originally Posted by madotds

Hi Thanks for this Mod it looks great But..... ( there is always a "but")

I have installed this on a test forum and I have noticed that when you register by using the FB mod it does not transfere or ask for a password for the forum. This is fine if a user always uses the FB app to log in BUT
I the user had to log in by traditional methoods they would get the "username password" incorrect because there is no password in the forum database.

Should you build a large number of users with this and then remove the FB mod you would have alot of users needing to request passwords.

Maybe there is away to force a redirect a new FB regristration to a page where they have to fill in there real email and password before using the forum?

Cheers

Madotds

Bump

Sorry This is the 1st time I think I have bumped a post but is there a way to make my post above happen? if not I really can not see how this could work on a forum as it would only take a small issue with facebook and members would not be able to sign in!

[pandoros]

It doesnt work for me!!
I followed everything properly! the link appears above the login, but it stops there!
if you click on it nothing happens

[hambil]

Someone else has probably already posted this, but here is a Template Modification System xml that makes all the template edits for you.

[ekool]

Originally Posted by hambil

Someone else has probably already posted this, but here is a Template Modification System xml that makes all the template edits for you.

This XML appears to only do the footer/navbar... none of the "optional" edits which are the tough ones.

[hambil]

It does all the edits. You may need to make sure they get applied to your other skins. It does the master skin by default I think.

[hbalagh1]

Originally Posted by hbalagh1

i have this problem with "Base Domain is not valid" no matter what url i put in with or w/o www. or any combination i still get the same thing...any help?

anyone have any ideas on this?

[Ramya108]

I really need that all users allow me to send e-mails to them.

How can I make this feature compulsory in FBconnect?