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]

This mod runs fine, ignore those that balk about "Facebook has changed things", obviously they haven't used it.

I have this mod installed on two separate forums, and have yet to have an issue with things.

Remember, just because the author hasn't "updated the mod" in a while doesn't mean they've abandoned it. I mean, really, we DO have lives you know.

[abrecher]

I'm willing to contribute $$$ if someone wants to take over development....

[wolfstream]

It's really not as simple as "taking over development". Author's permission has to be given, a new release has to be made, etc.

From what I've seen though, this mod works. What, specifically are you having problems with?

[820Media]

i get the problem that when u click the FBconnect button nothing happens it just sticks a # on the end of my URL.

[wolfstream]

Originally Posted by jetgaming

i get the problem that when u click the FBconnect button nothing happens it just sticks a # on the end of my URL.

Check your application settings (@ facebook). make sure that the settings there are as they should be, and that you've actually pointed the right domain where it should be.

Check your admincp settings , make sure that you've got the right API key and the right Secret where they should be, and make sure you've got templates setup.

Make sure you've done the template edits as well.

[820Media]

Yup ive done everything..correct.

Canvas Callback URL: http://forums.jetgaming.org

Connect: http://jetgaming.org

And set right API and secret in ACP.

It is API right? Not Application..

[wolfstream]

Originally Posted by jetgaming

Yup ive done everything..correct.

No, no you haven't.

[820Media]

Originally Posted by wolfstream

No, no you haven't.

What have i done wrong?

*i removed the FB connect button cus it wouldnt work..*

[wolfstream]

Originally Posted by jetgaming

What have i done wrong?

Obviously something, otherwise it would be working.

[820Media]

Originally Posted by wolfstream

Obviously something, otherwise it would be working.

Well...Yeah..