Integration with vBulletin - YAFB - Yay! Another Facebook Bridge

This is not just a "port" for vBulletin 4 of this modification, this is the next version of the modification which support both vBulletin 4 and vBulletin 3 family

IMPORTANT: FILE ISSUES HERE: http://code.google.com/p/vbulletinfacebook/issues/list (require a Google Account)

Yay! Another Facebook Bridge 3.3.2
Tested to work with vBulletin 3.7.x and 3.8.x (3.6.x requires some manual edit, contact me for detail instruction)
Tested to work with vBulletin 4.0 (use different .xml import file)
Please note: this product requires PHP5. If you get weird error messages, please check if you PHP version is still 4 (which is very old and you should change to PHP5 as soon as possible). Also, MySQL 5 is strongly recommended

[WHAT IS IT?]
There are many vBulletin - Facebook bridge out there but installing is always the problem for most of forum owner. So I decided to build this product from scratch and provide you the ability to install this Facebook Bridge into your forum in 10 minutes. The detail install instruction can be found below (under the Feature section). A few technical notes: This product uses Facebook Connect to maintance connection between vBulletin forums and complicated (and awesome) Facebook servers. All most everything is automatically done by the script, even the Administrators don't need to do any manual editing (yeah, I'm talking about manual templates editing, you WON'T need to edit templates each time you implement a new style). Once again, most of everything is options which can be enabled/disabled via AdminCP or UserCP interface. All possible type of caching is use to improve performance and reduce heavy PHP load on server side or javascript load on client side. Well, it's quite a long paragraph for introducing. Let's make it work!

[SEE IT IN ACTION]
Screencast:
1. Installation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ComjeipReE4
2. Connecting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7m85O_iX70
3. Posting and Notifications: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBwwiffLvJ8
Demo board:
vBulletin 3.8: http://daohoangson.com/vb38
vBulletin 4: http://daohoangson.com/vb40
Authentication Username: demo. Password: demo.

[MAIN FEATURE]
*** Damn easy to install!
1. Loaded with long list of actions/notifications: posting thread, posting reply, rating thread, sending pm, sending visitor message, uploading image (avatar/profile picture), uploading pictures, comment on pictures. This list are designed to be expandable easily later by me or other people who loves to develope this product (well, if you do, contact me right now!)
2. Ability to quick register with Facebook credential but Administrator can disable this function via AdminCP. Facebook proxied email addresses are handled completely and vBulletin can send email without any problems (of course, the member must grant the Email extend permission). There is a setting in AdminCP to disallow Facebook proxied email addresses also for boards that need email explicitly
3. Ability to auto login with Facebook session (Administrator can turn this on or off in AdminCP and members can enable or disable this feature on their accounts either)
4. Other abilities: Display a profile block on vBulletin member page. Display a wall tab/box on Facebook profile page. Synchronize avatar from Facebook.
5. [AdminCP] Administrator can "edit" template bundle easily. Actually the old template will be deactivated, the new template will be registered and then all action associated with the old template with be updated with the new template bundle id. Oops, why you need to care about all of it? I did it for you already! Just go the the editing page and click Edit. Yay! All done
6. [AdminCP] Staffs can manage connected users and see basic information about them (including granted permissions)
7. [AdminCP] Administrator can decide to: migrate connected users from other products to YAFB, restrict private forums from being posted to Facebook, view detail log of YAFB in action, send notifications to connected users
*. [Experimental] I have added a fun feature that generate the Fans List, the photo will be posted to new thread with friend tagged (if available). The main purpose of this bonus feature is to demostrate the ability of the bridge. If you have an idea, contact me and I will implement it if I can
*. [Experimental] Friend Inviting functionality is added. Access from UserCP > Facebook Bridge > Invite Friends

[CHANGE LOG]
Version 3.3.2 (released on Jun 10, 2010): Register On-the-fly issue with vBulletin 3.8.4 fixed
Version 3.3.1 (released on Jun 08, 2010): Bug fixes and Migration for vBulletin 4.0.3
Version 3.3 (released on Apr 06, 2010): Auto login related features added. User experience reached a new higher level!

[NEW INSTALLATION]
*. Upload all files/folders in folder "upload" into your forum root (Please upload before importing product)
1. Import Product:
1.1. Go to AdminCP
1.2. Plugins & Products ~> Manage Products ~> Add/Import Product:
1.2.1. Browse to the .xml file (use product-yafb.xml for vBulletin 3 and product-yafb_vb4.xml for vBulletin 4)
1.2.2. Click Import

2. Fill the settings:
2.1. Go to AdminCP
2.2. vBulletin Options ~> vBulletin Options ~> Yay! Another Facebook Bridge
2.2. Create a Facebook Application if you haven't had one for your forum. Refer to the Creating Facebook Application below if you don't know how to do it
2.3. Fill the API key and Secret into the approriate fields. You can leave the Template fields untouch (the will be filled automatically). If you want to use the Account Reclamation feature, please place http://domain.com/forums/register.php?do=fbb_reclaim into Account Reclamation URL field. With other fields, it's your decision to made
2.4. Click Save and you are done!

2.* Creating Facebook Application:
2.*.1. Go to Facebook Developer > Create Application page http://www.facebook.com/developers/createapp.php (login if you didn't)
2.*.2. Enter the Application Name. Suggestion: Put your forum name here. Don't forget to tick the Agree radiobox and then click Save Changes
2.*.3. Now you can get your API Key and Secret (that are needed in step 2.3)
2.*.4. And go to the Connect tab, fill your forum url into Connect URL, fill your domain into Base Domain.
2.*.5. You are done with required information. But you can go through other tab and enter more detail about your forum, your application. I suggest putting a nice icon, banner into it. Happy customizing!

[UPGRADING]
Just upload overwrite files/folders then reimport the xml file. Do not forget to check "Yes" under "Allow Overwrite" to upgrade

[CONFLICT]
Since this product interfere with the registration procedure, I have found some other plugins/products that conficts with this product. Below is the full list of known confict and action taken to resolve the issue
No Spam (Human Verification): Temporary disabled during Facebook registration
vMail (Email Verification): Temporary disabled during Facebook registration

[OTHER PLUGINS/PRODUCTS]
I have developed an easy to use options/permissions system that allow other plugins/products to add it's actions into this bridge and let the forum members experience a whole new era of connections. I did a small demostration with my kBank System (which is a money system with award/thank functionality and a useful hiding feature) and it runs pretty well. If you are interested in testing kBank in action with YAFB, contact me. If you are a developer who wants to integrate your plugins/products with this Bridge, contact me either! You are all welcome
*Also available: Publishing Blog (vBBlog) to Facebook [New! Updated on Jan 10th, 2010]


[KNOWN ISSUES]
FILE HERE: http://code.google.com/p/vbulletinfacebook/issues/list (require a Google Account)

[Blacura]

Originally Posted by eternal_

Why isn't there a facebook connect button made for logging into 4.0 yet?

Have you entered the API number and the secret number from Facebook yet?
It wont show until you add those characters.

[doemasters]

Just installed it and having a little trouble. i see the part where a person can connect to facebook and i type in the information and it connects showing the persons icon and all but thats all it will let it do. i thought a person from facebook would be able to make a post or do they have to sign up on my forum as well to do that

doemasters.com/forum is where its located
thanks for any help

[Blacura]

Originally Posted by doemasters

Just installed it and having a little trouble. i see the part where a person can connect to facebook and i type in the information and it connects showing the persons icon and all but thats all it will let it do. i thought a person from facebook would be able to make a post or do they have to sign up on my forum as well to do that

doemasters.com/forum is where its located
thanks for any help

Yes you have to create a Facebook Group or just use the registered user group and when they sign on they can then use your forum.

[mrpaint]

Originally Posted by nitra1000

I installed today, and I get this Javascript error

Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; InfoPath.2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Timestamp: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:26:29 UTC


Message: 'fbUserConnected' is undefined
Line: 125
Char: 995
Code: 0
URI: http://static.ak.connect.facebook.com/connect.php/en_US/js/Api/CanvasUtil/Connect/XFBML


Message: 'fbUserConnected' is undefined
Line: 125
Char: 995
Code: 0
URI: http://static.ak.connect.facebook.com/connect.php/en_US/js/Api/CanvasUtil/Connect/XFBML

It happens just after I've used the popup box to login (and it's disappeared), in the main window.

Not sure whats going on.... Any ideas?

Which page and in which browser did you encountered this?

Originally Posted by is_it_me

Hi mrpaint, does this release solve my problem as per post 677 / is it worth me upgrading?

Sent you a PM but you didn't reply. Hmm, it looked like something has been sent to output before vBulletin html. Please double check

Originally Posted by reimic

I have an idea: Post Articles directly in a facebook site and the comments sync also automatic. that would be very great!

I think this idea will be done as a plugin of YAFB (just like how I did with vBBlog and Post Thank You Hack)

[mrpaint]

Originally Posted by syrn

Account Reclamation URL ???

Please read the readme file, it has a clear example for Reclamation URL

Originally Posted by eternal_

Why isn't there a facebook connect button made for logging into 4.0 yet?

Hmm, just like Blacura has said, did you put the API and secret code?

Originally Posted by doemasters

Just installed it and having a little trouble. i see the part where a person can connect to facebook and i type in the information and it connects showing the persons icon and all but thats all it will let it do. i thought a person from facebook would be able to make a post or do they have to sign up on my forum as well to do that

doemasters.com/forum is where its located
thanks for any help

It's best if you can take a screenshot. Anyway, sounded like a Javascript problem?

[mrpaint]

In case you haven't noticed yet. I have just bring the demo forums online back but this time behind a simple authentication (as I heard it's possible to run a demo forums that way). Read the very first post for instruction and link. I hope I won't receive any complaint about it

[Byggahus]

Is it possible to ban a facebook logged in user that breaks our forum rules? And can my Moderators see the facebook logged in user's Name, Email address, Address and IP somehow if needed?

[KURTZ]

hi [name]mrpaint[/name] what about the issue that i've noticed?

[doemasters]

ok here is what it looks like when a person uses facebook connect. Screen shot attached

[Delilahs]

Mr Paint, there is a template alignment problem when This Mod and vbsoccer are active together. both mods are fine on there own, but when YAY is turned on along with other vSA mods such as;

VSa - Auto Birthday Greeter 2.0.3 VSa - Auto Birthday Greeter
VSa - Login To User Account 3.0.3 VSa - Login To User Account
Yay! Another Facebook Bridge

The alignments on the templates are wrong, could you work with the coder of vBsoccer to sort this problem?

Cheers