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.

[wolfstream]

Originally Posted by skylab

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

Actually, that IS true. These emails won't just "get to the user", though, you have to comply with the standards set forth by facebook.

As far as sending mail directly to the proxy mail, it isn't going to work right. You can NOT mail these users directly, nor, frankly, should you mail users from your forum in a "mass mail" format!

[Xanlamin]

Originally Posted by wolfstream

As far as sending mail directly to the proxy mail, it isn't going to work right. You can NOT mail these users directly, nor, frankly, should you mail users from your forum in a "mass mail" format!

I have boards that have emailed thousands of users with no issues at all, and if you allow them to log in to your site via there facebook accounts why should you not be able to send them emails?

It seems this mod is more of a hassle than it is worth, why would you want users on your board that you can not control, I would rather them make an actual account, and if they do not want to do that then they are not wanting to view my site anyways.

[Keyser520]

Ok...it looks like my users can login with either their OLD forum accounts or their facebook accounts... is it possible to merge those?

[floggerss]

How can i Add this option in the resiter form, where the user acept the legal agreement?

[wolfstream]

Can't be done
This doesn't "register" users for your forum in the standard way. You need to use something like this mod to force users to accept rules once registered

[Jeffler]

For some reason when I click publish now after a post it won't go through with the click...didn't used to do this before though :/

[KevinGupta]

I'm not sure what is going wrong for me here...

1) When I click on Connect with Facebook button, it doesnt give me any screen to login? Like shown in here: HERE

2) and when I try to post threads/replies it doesnt ask me if I wish to post it to facebook? It just posts it how it normally does in vB..

Can someone tell me what is wrong?

Thanks!

[retrogt]

when you create a thread on the forum and it posts it on your facebook wall is the link that says "view thread" suppose to take you to the thread or just the section where the thread is located? on mine it is taking you to the main section and not the thread itself. if this is not correct how can I fix it; or even if it is is there a way to get it to actually link to the thread?

thanks

[McCarroll21]

Originally Posted by KevinGupta

I'm not sure what is going wrong for me here...

1) When I click on Connect with Facebook button, it doesnt give me any screen to login? Like shown in here: HERE

2) and when I try to post threads/replies it doesnt ask me if I wish to post it to facebook? It just posts it how it normally does in vB..

Can someone tell me what is wrong?

Thanks!

Same problem. It'd be nice if the author of the mod would be around for support.

[retrogt]

any help?

hmmmm...this is weird. the original post of the thread doesnt link directly to the thread and instead to the main section the thread is located in; however if someone responds then it does link directly to the thread.

and it only notifies you on facebook if there is a reply if the person who replies is also on facebook and is connected...

is this how it is suppose to work?