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.

[madotds]

Originally Posted by pericolosogr

You mean that if someday facebook stops working they wont be able to connect to my forums (but they do have username and password)

They do not have a password in the database. Try signing up with facebook and then try logging in with username and same password. it doesn't work.

[S7rik3R]

Wow it works perfectly and works like a charm. This helps me draws more visitors to my site too. Thanks ~

And also Voted for "Mod of the Month"

[S7rik3R]

Oops I just found an Error uunder the memberlist. My profile pix disappear and I tries to upload again it don't shows up??

Here's my site : http://www.evotus.com/members/list/

[Scamorz]

How i can send an email to facebook users?

[Wakey]

Originally Posted by Scamorz

How i can send an email to facebook users?

As normal, the email addresses that Facebook uses are proxy emails which when mail is sent to them forwards the email to the address that is on their Facebook account

[Wakey]

Originally Posted by madotds

They do not have a password in the database. Try signing up with facebook and then try logging in with username and same password. it doesn't work.

With a few hacks it can be sorted. I have it so that on Edit Your Details page the "Edit Email and password" button shows even for Facebook users.

When they click this I have it so they can view their Facebook Proxy Email address and change their password. They can then copy the Facebook Proxy Email, logout and then go through the lost password procedure to get a new password emailed to them.

Once they have this new password they can login via either method and can then set a password they can remember. Works perfectly

[Xanlamin]

Are these users able to still create an album and how do they follow forum permissions? considering they are not registered users?

[mykkal]

Originally Posted by madotds

They do not have a password in the database. Try signing up with facebook and then try logging in with username and same password. it doesn't work.

they can update thier email address in vbulletin. if they do not well...

bad ish can happen

[pericolosogr]

well it needs a few things to be sorted out then!
Nice idea, but it has to be worked out in many ways!
uninstalling for now

[skylab]

Originally Posted by playSocial

As normal, the email addresses that Facebook uses are proxy emails which when mail is sent to them forwards the email to the address that is on their Facebook account

Not true. I've tried sending an email to these users and receive a bounce back in return.