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.

[jlew24asu]

Originally Posted by sllik

try setting your callback url to http://sundeviltalk.com

now I cant log into my forum again. something with these files are messed up.

[sllik]

Originally Posted by playSocial

Why does the fblogin.php page just display half the php code in the file rather than login. I have tried everything to get it to work but it wont

very weird... what are your server specs and forum url?

[sllik]

Originally Posted by janslu

I'm running 3.8.0 Rc1 with vbseo 2.5.0 and I've had two problems on my website and had to disable the plugin.

1. the footer code didn't parse the redirect correctly (the "forum" was missing and it had
FB.init(...hash...,"//fb_redirect...");
value. Note the double slash. I've changed it manually and some errors disappeared.

2. I'm using vbseo and people (valid users) going anywhere but to forum start page were greeted with connection reset errors. Unfortunately IE6 threw out connection error and didn't open the page at all. I've tried to fix it but couldn't... My server logs didn't have any errors...

Any help will be very approeciated as this functionality is very, very welcome by my users...

Cheers
Jan

whats your forum url?

[macc]

Thanks for update ...now come no database errors!

reg

macc

[sllik]

Originally Posted by jlew24asu

now I cant log into my forum again. something with these files are messed up.

what kind of error you get when you try to login?

[sllik]

Originally Posted by macc

Thanks for update ...now come no database errors!

reg

macc

you still getting db errors?

[TriMe]

This is awesome, thanks. Installed and nominated and voted Excellent!

One thing. I get this when I click on Email preferences

[jlew24asu]

Originally Posted by sllik

what kind of error you get when you try to login?

I was getting an error at all. I would put my credentials in and the page would just time out and not log me in.

I'm sorry but I have uninstalled this. too risky. I will wait for later versions.

[sllik]

Originally Posted by TriMe

This is awesome, thanks. Installed and nominated and voted Excellent!

One thing. I get this when I click on Email preferences

yeah if you guys get these "page cannot be displayed" errors, just close it (the popup box) and open it again. It means that facebook servers are overloaded

[janslu]

Originally Posted by sllik

whats your forum url?

It's http://www.babyboom.pl/forum/

But I've had to disable the product - It's busy site and I've had lots and lots of complains...