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.

[StructuralNet]

How are you guys setting it up in facebook? I won't even attempt to install it until I know atleast what settings to use...

[Brandon Sheley]

Originally Posted by StructuralNet

How are you guys setting it up in facebook? I won't even attempt to install it until I know atleast what settings to use...

I used the recommended ones in the install

[StructuralNet]

Thats what I have been trying to do, but I don't see everything matching up:

* Set the Callback URL to your vBulletin url (example: http://www.siteurl.com/forum/)
* Go to the Canvas tab and set the Canvas Page URL (to whatever you want)
* Set the Render Method to IFrame under the Canvas Settings
* Click on the Connect tab and set the Base Domain to your domain (siteurl.com) without the http or www.

When I look through the Developer settings, I don't see a dedicated "callback URL", I see all these different tabs with Callback urls but for such items as the authorize callbacks, canvas callback, etc...

[duditas]

Many thanks for this great job

[kairev]

Fantastic mod, thank you very much.

One issue I have...when I post a new thread I get this error:

Application response error

Invalid template bundle id specified: 64114052401. You can see this because you are one of the developers of the app.

[mikeB]

Originally Posted by kairev

Fantastic mod, thank you very much.

One issue I have...when I post a new thread I get this error:

Application response error

Invalid template bundle id specified: 64114052401. You can see this because you are one of the developers of the app.

this just started happening across the board - Im sure it is something to do with something facebook has changed because I am getting the same error on 2 boards I have it installed to

[sdsvtdriver]

I am also getting that error.

[powerful_rogue]

Has anyone worked out a fix regarding the "your message is too short" - Ive seen people mention this stops if you turn off the WYSIWYG editor, however thats extremely popular on our site.

[utahraves]

For people receiving the templates bundle id, try removing the news feed templates and then rebuilding them in the admincp.

[primetimefans]

I have a problem. I followed all the steps properly (I beleive) on my main page I can see the image for FB Connect but when I click on it nothing happens.