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 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

change your callback url to: <snip>.

[PamelaE]

Ok I will try this but when I originally had this as the url there were errors because it said it didnt match <snip>.

[Bounce]

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

Test forums are not supposed to be public viewable and be password protected as per vb's T&C's :up:

[PamelaE]

Originally Posted by hIBEES

Test forums are not supposed to be public viewable and be password protected as per vb's T&C's :up:

Thanks for that. I'm sure you were also very popular at school.

[Mythor]

Originally Posted by sllik

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

Excellent, thanks a lot. Will post again if everything goes fine for me.

[swantonio]

Excellent, thanks 3.8 instaled

[Bounce]

Originally Posted by playSocial

Ok I got my initial issue resolved. However now when I try and connect I get the following after I click the button and ok the facebook request

How did you resolve it?, I get the same

Click the connect with facebook does nothing

[Bounce]

Originally Posted by PamelaE

Thanks for that. I'm sure you were also very popular at school.

Yea top o the class

[mofeu]

Do we have to fill the following?


Facebook Application API Key
The API Key of the application through which vBulletin and Facebook will be communicating.

Facebook Application Secret
The secret of the application through which vBulletin and Facebook will be communicating.

First Login Feed Template ID
The ID of the news-feed template bundle that will be posted to the user's news-feed after the user has logged in with Facebook Connect for the first time. Click here to manage news-feed template bundles.

New Thread Feed Template ID
The ID of the news-feed template bundle that will be posted to the user's news-feed when the user create a thread. Click here to manage news-feed template bundles.

New Reply Feed Template ID
The ID of the news-feed template bundle that will be posted to the user's news-feed when the user replied to a thread. Click here to manage news-feed template bundles.

Best regards and happy new year

[Bounce]

Originally Posted by mofeu

Do we have to fill the following?


Facebook Application API Key
The API Key of the application through which vBulletin and Facebook will be communicating.

Facebook Application Secret
The secret of the application through which vBulletin and Facebook will be communicating.

You need to get these from http://www.facebook.com/developers/

Originally Posted by From Install Instructions

:

Set up a new Facebook Application through which vBulletin and Facebook will be communicating. When setting up the application set the Callback URL to your vBulletin url (example: http://www.siteurl.com/forum/).
Set up a new Facebook Application here: http://www.facebook.com/developers/ (no coding skills required)
Step 2:


Go to FB Connect Options > Settings and set your application API Key and Secret (available from step 1).