Integration with vBulletin - Facebook Connect - Allow your users to login with their Facebook account (for 3.8)

Staff Note: Moved to Graveyard - this will never work now that the old style facebook authentication is no longer available.


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

There is NO NEED to upgrade or reinstall if you already installed this mod for 3.7

Upgrade to 2.0.6 so that users with the new super long IDs will be able to login.


This mod conflicts with PhotoPost vBGallery!
Quick fix:
Disable the following PhotoPost vBGallery plugins:

• Userinfo Merge
• Integrate Postbit Showthread

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!

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.

[KenDude]

Originally Posted by KenDude

I don't know if this matters or not, but over a week ago I sent an email to the developer using both email addresses included in the ReadMe file included with this mod. As of yet, I have not received a response at all. I figured what the heck I might as well paste that email here to see if any/all of it can be answered so here goes:

"I currently have vbulletin 3.8.2 running at www.planetporsche.net
I would like to add your modification but I have a couple of questions first:

1) I also run vbgallery and I saw that your mod conflicts with it. If I install your mod, what funcionality do I lose with vbgallery?

2) I have one master (parent) style on my site but with 6 or 7 child styles, if I have you install it on my site, will you charge me once to install it to the parent style (which should cascade to the child styles automatically) or will you charge me to install to each style?

3) How soon can you perform the install if I send over the PayPal payment (asuming the answers to #1 and #2 are to my liking) ?"

Anyone? Anyone? Buehler? Buehler?

[werewe12]

I installed this on my board yesterday and followed the instructions exactly. When I hit the facebook button the first time, it asks if I want to connect to facebook. After the first time, the button does nothing. It comes back saying that my username and password is incorrect and when I try multiple times it stops doing anything.

I even uninstalled and installed again and still having same exact issue. I checked all the trouble shooting measures and still cant figure it out. Any help is appreciated?

BTW, will this let users connect directly from my board or will they have to go through the facebook page? Thanks.

[BlueChipEarth]

You must have short tags turned on for this to work!

[gweb]

The strangest thing has happened... I am running 3.8 and had this Connect plugin working - for one reason or another - we uninstalled it and have now gone to reinstall it - using the newest 2.0.5 version... we get the - I have checked, double checked and triple checked the code and all is exactly right. I cannot understand this.

Any ideas anyone? Could it be related to having had it installed once before (don't see how)?

[wolfstream]

Originally Posted by werewe12

I installed this on my board yesterday and followed the instructions exactly. When I hit the facebook button the first time, it asks if I want to connect to facebook. After the first time, the button does nothing. It comes back saying that my username and password is incorrect and when I try multiple times it stops doing anything.

I even uninstalled and installed again and still having same exact issue. I checked all the trouble shooting measures and still cant figure it out. Any help is appreciated?

BTW, will this let users connect directly from my board or will they have to go through the facebook page? Thanks.

Originally Posted by gweb

The strangest thing has happened... I am running 3.8 and had this Connect plugin working - for one reason or another - we uninstalled it and have now gone to reinstall it - using the newest 2.0.5 version... we get the - I have checked, double checked and triple checked the code and all is exactly right. I cannot understand this.

Any ideas anyone? Could it be related to having had it installed once before (don't see how)?

You're doing something wrong. Check the instructions, make sure you follow them step by step, because, obviously you're missing something.

The app works, IF you follow the instructions. If you don't, you will get errors.

[NgocTam]

So sad !!
I got the

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

error when I tried to input a non-existing username after logging in via fbConnect !!! (

Any support ?!

[kinosabi]

I installed FB connect which never worked for me.

I now get this error when anyone posts or creates a thread:

The message you have entered is too short. Please lengthen your message to at least 5 characters.


I will attempt this thread: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...+entered+short

to try and resolve the issue.

If anyone else has had this problem please let me know.

[wolfstream]

Originally Posted by kinosabi

The message you have entered is too short. Please lengthen your message to at least 5 characters.

This has been answered at least once in this thread by myself:
Do not use the enhanced editor. The problem is not with the plugin, but with the editor itself. This happens on almost every plugin that uses the posting functions.

Go into your user control panel, use the "standard editor", and you will be fine.

[kinosabi]

Originally Posted by wolfstream

This has been answered at least once in this thread by myself:
Do not use the enhanced editor. The problem is not with the plugin, but with the editor itself. This happens on almost every plugin that uses the posting functions.

Go into your user control panel, use the "standard editor", and you will be fine.

Well since I spent hours trying to get FB connect working over a period of 1 week, with little

support for this mod at this time.

I was also left with this

I went through the instructions many, many times.

So I uninstalled FB connect then returned all the templates

back to their original default (as this was my first ad on it was no problem).

Seemed like a more logical approach for my situation.

But thanks for the tip!



If anyone is confident in getting it going for me please let me know (happy to pay).

I have a fresh install of vB 3.8.3 (no adons or plugs).

Slight mod for putting space between the categories.

First though I would like to see it fully working on your own forum.




www.byronbayforum.com.au

[wolfstream]

Kinosabi,
If you want this installed, let me know, I'll be happy to do it. You can see how well it works by looking at the forum link in my sig. The system works beautifully, as long as you follow the instructions step by step.

I've installed this on a number of forums my own and those not, so I know it works quite well. Feel free to drop me a PM if you want me to take care of this for you.