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.

[Dean C]

Originally Posted by sllik

v2.0.2 is out!
Fixed the notification problem
Login button will be displayed on all vb pages (including vbAdvanced)

Does it fix the bug where it won't let any users post replies or threads because it says the message is always too short?

[BrAinZ]

I've just upgraded to the latest version/. Still won't actually let me log in via the FBconnect button, although it does actually SHOW the button now, so a step in the right direction

Any ideas why it's not allowing the correct log in though? Simply comes back to the log in page

[cfrench]

I am having the issue as well. Anything you type in the reply box is to short. You type something again and doesn't say it is to short but will post the last thing you typed. Any idea's? I have shut the site down due to this issue so any quick help I could get would be appreciated.

Thanks

[sllik]

Originally Posted by Dean C

Does it fix the bug where it won't let any users post replies or threads because it says the message is always too short?

go into the mod settings and click save... see if this helps

[cfrench]

mod settings where you change the min. word?

[cfrench]

That didn't help me. Even change it from min of 3 to 2. Nothing

[cfrench]

ok I went threw all my templates and checked everything over and didn't really do anything but its working now. yay

[cfrench]

Is anything supposed to show up in the profile or in the navbar or anything. The only reason I know there is something going on is cause when I post it asks me to post it to facebook and the button on the login. Other then that I do not see any other signs of things working.

[Neutral Singh]

There seems to an error in upgrade instructions from 2.0.1 to 2.0.2!!

[PamelaE]

This is wonderful, thank you.

Most of it is working just fine but I have a problem when I click on News-Feed in the admincp I get the following error:

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'FacebookRestClientException' with message 'Session key invalid or no longer valid' in /home/soaps/public_html/testforum/includes/facebook/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php:2403 Stack trace: #0 /home/soaps/public_html/testforum/includes/facebook/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php(672): FacebookRestClient->call_method('facebook.feed.g...', Array) #1 /home/soaps/public_html/testforum/admincp/fbconnect_registertemplates.php(87): FacebookRestClient->feed_getRegisteredTemplateBundles() #2 {main} thrown in /home/soaps/public_html/testforum/includes/facebook/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php on line 2403

Any ideas?

Thanks