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.

[Bounce]

Originally Posted by masons_mum

problem solved, i uninstalled then reinstalled

Just tried that

Conecta con Facebook para conversar con tus amigos en la p?gina web y compartir hist?rias en Facebook a trav?s de tu Wall y las ?ltimas noticias de tus amigos

Originally Posted by masons_mum

Another question though, if an existing user logs in using facebook, does it not add friends? is that only for new users? This mod of yours is working like a dream though!

Not sure, it does ask if you want to use you exsisting username (suppose that's if if you have one already registered)

Think it matches the email address from facebook to the one registered on yer forums

[verino]

Originally Posted by sllik

You need to change your server config. Search google on how to deal with this.

Ok, I will do that. Thank's for your reply.

Another question is : when login to the forum with fbconnect and choose to use existing user, it automatically mapping the email address registered in facebook to user in the forum. Where can i see the mapping ? or there's a data table for it ?

For example : user A (registered user in forum) logged in with his email (his_email address in facebook) using fbconnect, then automatically user A logged in to the forum. Is there a way to change his forum username ? (in case he has 2 registered username in the forum) ?

[giorgioarmani]

Originally Posted by hIBEES

logged in no problem and created an account for me but its not pasted anything to my facebook unless you have tht part disabled?

Yeah that's odd, sometimes it does it for me, sometimes not. Is there anything I can do?

[Brandon Sheley]

hopefully there are plans for a 3.8 version of this, or should it work just fine

thanks
-Brandon

[phreak79]

Originally Posted by Calash

Well, I installed it today and it worked no problem with my eFiction bridge and vBadvanced. Great job


Can my current members connect to there facebook accounts as well? I looked all over and can not find an option for this in the user panel.


Thanks again.


Edit - Never mind, I found how to do it. Now I need to figure out how to add the same functions from the thread posting area to eFiction.

You could post here how to do it as I can't figure that bit out either

Edit - I've worked out how now too. Seems to be working like a charm at the moment. Great stuff

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by phreak79

You could post here how to do it as I can't figure that bit out either

They have to logout and then log back in using the FBConnect button. Then when they're asked what screen name they want to use, there will be an option to use their existing account.

[masons_mum]

the ones having spanish language problems, i didnt just do a fresh install of the mod,, i made a fresh application too. Not sure which solved it though.

[Wakey]

Originally Posted by sllik

what is your forum url again?

myfarmcommunity.com

[jlew24asu]

are people having to clear their cookies and cache everytime they log into their board?

I get this almost everytime

The Facebook Connect cross-domain receiver URL (http://sundeviltalk.com/xd_receiver....%220.711%22%7D) must have the application's callback url (http://www.sundeviltalk.com/) as a prefix. You can configure the callback url in the application's settings.





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[Calash]

Has anybody played with having other activities outside of Thread stuff report back to Facebook yet? I thought I saw a link to some documentation on how to format requests, but I can not seem to find it. I was thinking of stuff like adding pictures, comments on profiles, and for my own use eFiction actions of story posting and reviews.