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About Developer · **Released**: 01-24-2009

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:

Code:

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.

verbs · #**1012** 08-02-2009, 08:58 PM

I get a ton of spammers registering on my board to sell products, so I don't want people to be able to bypass the registration process (we screen all registrations manually). If they login with their facebook info instread of going through the registration process, will we still be able to manually screen each one?

matthewhotdude · #**1013** 08-02-2009, 09:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by verbs

I get a ton of spammers registering on my board to sell products, so I don't want people to be able to bypass the registration process (we screen all registrations manually). If they login with their facebook info instread of going through the registration process, will we still be able to manually screen each one?

There normally BOTS well from my experience.

I dob't you will get any bots signing in via facebook

wolfstream · #**1014** 08-02-2009, 09:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by verbs

I get a ton of spammers registering on my board to sell products, so I don't want people to be able to bypass the registration process (we screen all registrations manually). If they login with their facebook info instread of going through the registration process, will we still be able to manually screen each one?

It is possible to change the setup to not allow signups via facebook connect, but allow users to associate their facebook login with an existing account. This will solve that issue while allowing you to keep control over who's registered.

I can't redistribute the code, you'll need to look in the XML for how to do this, but it is possible to do.

kinosabi · #**1015** 08-02-2009, 09:27 PM

Thanks for the help so far, ..... much appreciated!

RoxyTheImpreza · #**1016** 08-02-2009, 11:06 PM

alright I figured out why it wasnt working... I entered the secret key wrong... but now when I log in (for the first time) with my facebook it takes me to this screen:

and as you can see the format or what not is screwed up... how do I fix this?

RoxyTheImpreza · #**1017** 08-03-2009, 02:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wolfstream

It is possible to change the setup to not allow signups via facebook connect, but allow users to associate their facebook login with an existing account. This will solve that issue while allowing you to keep control over who's registered.

I can't redistribute the code, you'll need to look in the XML for how to do this, but it is possible to do.

I am really interest in this as well!

wolfstream · #**1018** 08-03-2009, 03:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RoxyTheImpreza

I am really interest in this as well!

All I can say is look through the XML. The answer is in there.
Like I said, I won't post the solution here, because that would be redistributing code.

RoxyTheImpreza · #**1019** 08-03-2009, 03:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wolfstream

All I can say is look through the XML. The answer is in there.
Like I said, I won't post the solution here, because that would be redistributing code.

hmmm...well I guess I will never figure it out, lol. any help with the picture above with the screwed up page?

butabi · #**1020** 08-03-2009, 07:30 AM

I'm trying to install this mod on a fresh installation of the latest version of vBulletin. For whatever reason, when I try to import or upload the XML file I get an error message "invalid file specified." This is the first mod I've ever tried to install, is there something I'm missing?

edit: I went in and looked at the XML file, it looks fine. I reuploaded it a few times to make sure, as well. I can try either option on the import screen and I still get the same result. Any ideas?

matthewhotdude · #**1021** 08-03-2009, 12:29 PM

anyone else having this problem.

If you disable this mod then people can't post on the forums.
I disabled it and went to try to post a message and it keeps saying

The message you have entered is too short. Please lengthen your message to at least 1 character

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