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.

[sllik]

Originally Posted by hollosch

PHP 5.2.6
MySQL 4.0.27-standard

i suggest you upgrade to mysql 5

Originally Posted by PamelaE

Hi Sllik,

Any ideas to my issue, its a couple of posts back.

Any help would be appreciated. Its on my test forum <snip>.

Thanks

I'll look into it

[verino]

Originally Posted by verino

Hi sllik,

I followed your installation instructions, but on step 5 :

Step 5:

Go to FB Connect Options > News-Feed Templates and register default templates.

I got this error :

I decide to stop and not to go to template edit before this problem fixed.

Any idea ?

Thank's.

anyone knows how to fix this problem ?

other thing is : I have edit my templates for the custom style, not default vb style, and when I try to login with fbconnect, it will ask to register new nickname for the forum, but then it gives me error. Is it because the news feed template error ?

Warning: fopen() [function.fopen]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in [path]/includes/facebook/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php on line 2487

Warning: fopen(http://api.facebook.com/restserver.php) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in [path]/includes/facebook/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php on line 2487

Fatal error:

* Please complete the required field "Email".

Unable to proceed with save while $errors array is not empty in class vB_DataManager_User in [path]/includes/class_dm.php on line 810

It will succeed if I choose to use already registered id for the forum. So if i logout from the forum, it will logout also from facebook.

[Mythor]

Question for sllik: If one of my existing members decides to sign-in via Facebook Connect and links their existing forum account to their Facebook name, is there any way to get at that information from the forum side of things? e.g. profile information, mod/admincp or the database? Or is it all handled in such a way that the forum doesn't receive that information?
I'm sure some of my members wouldn't care in the slightest, but some would care a great deal. I'd like to know if I need to put a warning on it or not, should I install it.

And a general question for anyone: Tried it in 3.8.0 RC2? If I'd've known this existed earlier I'd've stopped at a 3.7 version.
If you've tried it in 3.8.0, did it work? Thanks.

[Goomzee]

i tried to add this Mod but it's not working so i leave it

[jlew24asu]

a CMPS module would be awesome for this if anyone wants to take a stab at it. I really wish I knew how.

[jlew24asu]

has anyone been successful with 2.0.2 ?? users can not log in (at all) from my CMPS page.

edit: 2.0.2 does not fix log in issues for vbAdvanced. (CMPS)

[Calash]

Very cool idea, thanks for posting the mod.

My site is a bit unique in that I not only run vbadvanced, but I have a bridge to eFiction installed. The bridge reads the session information from VB to determine the login status. I move over the header, header include, and footer templates.

Do you think this mod will function with this type of setup?

[sllik]

Originally Posted by Calash

Very cool idea, thanks for posting the mod.

My site is a bit unique in that I not only run vbadvanced, but I have a bridge to eFiction installed. The bridge reads the session information from VB to determine the login status. I move over the header, header include, and footer templates.

Do you think this mod will function with this type of setup?

should work, but you never know until you try

[sllik]

Originally Posted by Mythor

Question for sllik: If one of my existing members decides to sign-in via Facebook Connect and links their existing forum account to their Facebook name, is there any way to get at that information from the forum side of things? e.g. profile information, mod/admincp or the database? Or is it all handled in such a way that the forum doesn't receive that information?
I'm sure some of my members wouldn't care in the slightest, but some would care a great deal. I'd like to know if I need to put a warning on it or not, should I install it.

And a general question for anyone: Tried it in 3.8.0 RC2? If I'd've known this existed earlier I'd've stopped at a 3.7 version.
If you've tried it in 3.8.0, did it work? Thanks.

the fbuser mysql table contains a map of fbusers to vbusers. I've heard several people installed on 3.8 with no problems.

[sllik]

Originally Posted by Goomzee

i tried to add this Mod but it's not working so i leave it

Professional installation services are available that guarantee the mod to work on your forums. See the INSTALL / UPGRADE files