Facebook Integration

[mzeitler]

The Facebook API already allows to develop applications on the Facebook platform.

As demonstrated by a some apps it is possible to create an automatic signup/login to an external vBulletin installation. So the Facebook user doesn't need to create a seperate login.

I would give it a few more months to see the first fully integrated vBulleting forums in Facebook.

A full integration would include things like:
- Facebook look and feel
- Real Facebook app (not only link to external site)
- Support of Facebook features (Profile, Notifications, Mini Feed, etc etc)

[Triality]

rightsideforum......how hard would this be to customize it for my forums?

[Coders Shack]

interesting , i may make a opensource API, or APP that lets you network to other forums.

[skippybosco]

nice job.

Another site that has done a very clean integration is the skewl campus guys.. They manage logging in for you automatically (no need to set password, etc).. allow you to browse messages/users from within facebook.

http://www.facebook.com/apps/applica...?id=2368627111



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One thing that neither site offers is the ability to post from within facebook..

[yinyang]

Originally Posted by rightsideforum

To answer you both.

1. I know there has been plenty of interest in a bridge between the two. Plenty of designers have said it isn't possible, I wanted to show that it is.

2. As for 'sharing it' - I'd be happy to share it for free with anybody. As I said, I am not a designer so it's not a matter of me sharing secrets. If I know what I'm looking for, I'd be very happy to pass it on.

It's no skin off my nose. It's your forum, if you wish to delete the thread, so be it. I have no reason to come and gloat here, I am trying to be helpful.

Since you paid for it, it is yours to release here. I am sure you can recoup some of your costs if you ask for donations.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Originally Posted by yinyang

Since you paid for it, it is yours to release here. I am sure you can recoup some of your costs if you ask for donations.

That will depend on the agreement. Mostly if you 'purchase' software it you do not become the owner of such software, you only buy permission to use it. Permission to redistribute is often not given or only for a much higher amount.

[jeffj]

Originally Posted by nexialys

Facebook do not have and will never have a bridge to connect to vBulletin.. this is a community, not an available software.

:down:

facebook has an API and it's about 15 minutes of coding to take what they give you and create a new user in VB - I know--- I've done it. They do not give out email addresses or passwords, so you prompt the user for a password and take the facebook id and insert that into the email address field of the vb user table.

then add some code where emails are sent in vb and detect any email address that's pure numerics - if it's pure numerics without an '@' then you send the message via the fb api so it winds in the user's fb inbox. (and you conveniently give then a link in the email to your site to a screen which allows them to update their email address on your site so that you can send to them directly in the future instead of thru the fb inbox) - see... that wasn't so hard.

[fabs_pim]

Facebook has opened its Facebook Connect API ... is there a chance that this will be integrated into vbulletin?

[yinyang]

Originally Posted by jeffj

:down:

facebook has an API and it's about 15 minutes of coding to take what they give you and create a new user in VB - I know--- I've done it. They do not give out email addresses or passwords, so you prompt the user for a password and take the facebook id and insert that into the email address field of the vb user table.

then add some code where emails are sent in vb and detect any email address that's pure numerics - if it's pure numerics without an '@' then you send the message via the fb api so it winds in the user's fb inbox. (and you conveniently give then a link in the email to your site to a screen which allows them to update their email address on your site so that you can send to them directly in the future instead of thru the fb inbox) - see... that wasn't so hard.

any chance I can pay you to do this for me?

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Originally Posted by Marco van Herwaarden

That will depend on the agreement. Mostly if you 'purchase' software it you do not become the owner of such software, you only buy permission to use it. Permission to redistribute is often not given or only for a much higher amount.

i agree, i miswrote. i meant if he "commissioned it" and thus owns all rights to it. then it is his to freely distribute or charge for.