Integration with vBulletin - Facebook Connect - Allow your users to login with their Facebook account

Facebook Connect
This add-on allows your guests and existing users to login with their Facebook account through Facebook Connect.

WORKS WITH 3.8!

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!

How to Upgrade From 2.0.0 to 2.0.1

• Upgrade the product. (Import the product XML again and set overwrite to yes).
• Update Feed Template IDs in the settings (make sure they are the same as at: FB Connect Options -> News-Feed Templates)

How to Upgrade From 2.0.1 to 2.0.2
See UPGRADE.html

• Fixed the notification problem (notifications were sent to wrong people)
• Login button will now be displayed on vbAdvanced pages

How to Upgrade From 2.0.2 to 2.0.3
See UPGRADE.html

• Fixed the Facebook avatar displayed for the wrong people problem.
• Added Facebook UID & Profile URL field to data map.

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.

[KW802]

Originally Posted by nascartr

I tested with my facebook account and after I entered what username I wanted to use it created a new account on my forum for me.

nascartr, thanks for clarifying that one.

[jlew24asu]

Originally Posted by jlew24asu

ok thanks guys for the feedback. I was doing it wrong. I installed everything and when I click

"Connect with Facebook" (at login) I get this....

Invalid Argument

The Facebook Connect cross-domain receiver URL (http://www.sundeviltalk.com//xd_rece...%220.402%22%7D) must have the application's callback url (http://sundeviltalk.com) as a prefix. You can configure the callback url in the application's settings.

I just thought of something....

I have CMPS on my site, how does this affect my callback URL??

I tried http://sundeviltalk.com and my actual forums http://sundeviltalk.com/forums, neither worked

[jlew24asu]

Originally Posted by nascartr

I tested with my facebook account and after I entered what username I wanted to use it created a new account on my forum for me.

By the way, I'm running this on vB 3.8 RC1. Works great so far.

so as I understand it, this hack only works for new registrations?

[nascartr]

Originally Posted by jlew24asu

so as I understand it, this hack only works for new registrations?

Yes, that's correct so far. Another member mentioned above that they couldn't link their current user account with the Facebook login...only able to create a new account on their forum.

[nascartr]

I do have a ton of errors when viewing the cpanel error log. There's at least a hundred and they're all like this...

[Wed Dec 10 13:13:39 2008] [error] [client 67.186.54.89] File does not exist: /home/nascartr/public_html/xd_receiver.htm, referer: http://www.connect.facebook.com/exte...d_receiver.htm
[Wed Dec 10 13:11:41 2008] [error] [client 67.186.54.89] File does not exist: /home/nascartr/public_html/xd_receiver.htm, referer: http://www.connect.facebook.com/exte...d_receiver.htm
[Wed Dec 10 13:11:04 2008] [error] [client 138.162.0.41] File does not exist: /home/nascartr/public_html/xd_receiver.htm, referer: http://www.connect.facebook.com/exte...d_receiver.htm
[Wed Dec 10 13:08:00 2008] [error] [client 138.162.0.42] File does not exist: /home/nascartr/public_html/xd_receiver.htm, referer: http://www.connect.facebook.com/exte...d_receiver.htm

[thepretorian]

like it saids, the file doesn't exist. Re-upload it or change the feedback url to http://diecastcrazy.com without the "/" at the end.

[yinyang]

Originally Posted by nascartr

Yes, that's correct so far. Another member mentioned above that they couldn't link their current user account with the Facebook login...only able to create a new account on their forum.

yup, i wrote an earlier post stating that i'd happy to donate more funds if he could bridge this with existing users.

I haven't tried it, and it seems like it will be a big pain in the ass, but i guess you could merge the current users with the new facebook account.

[jlew24asu]

Originally Posted by yinyang

yup, i wrote an earlier post stating that i'd happy to donate more funds if he could bridge this with existing users.

I haven't tried it, and it seems like it will be a big pain in the ass, but i guess you could merge the current users with the new facebook account.

thanks for that suggestion, I didnt even realize that feature exists. that should be a good work around right?

[yinyang]

Originally Posted by jlew24asu

thanks for that suggestion, I didnt even realize that feature exists. that should be a good work around right?

let me know if you try it!

[macc]

tried to login on http://diecastcrazy.com
and get also database error .... (used- "test" username)

Warning: implode() [function.implode]: Invalid arguments passed in [path]/fblogin.php on line 194

(had same error on my site )
macc