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.

[Spooony]

Originally Posted by Hex_legend

I have been asked by a lot of my members to do a feature where they can invite their facebook friends,
how easy is this if we use fb connect?
Does anyone know how to do this?

What I did was just set up a Facebook group for your site and invite people to that group.

[tpearl5]

Originally Posted by Hex_legend

I have been asked by a lot of my members to do a feature where they can invite their facebook friends,
how easy is this if we use fb connect?
Does anyone know how to do this?

I created a file called fb_invite.php. You can see it in action here: http://cellphoneforums.net/fb_invite.php (note that it is uploaded to my forum root)

I haven't tested this fully yet. Make sure under "canvas" on your facebook setting you have it set to FBML. I haven't gotten around getting the canvas page to display correctly either, but that shouldn't matter since you are redirecting the user to your forum home.

You could add a conditional to your pages that say 'if facebook user, display 'invite friends'.

[Hex_legend]

Seems to work for me.
Gutted that you can only invite 16 users at a time
www.thesocialmeet.com/fb_invite.php

[usearchme]

Hi there

I seem to have a problem with my installation

I get to this section on the installation

Step 5:
Go to FB Connect Options > News-Feed Templates and register default templates. Then Go to FB Connect Options > Settings and save your settings (even if you don't change anything).

When i goto news feed templates i get this error

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /home/sites/worldofchat.co.uk/public_html/Forum/includes/facebook/facebook.php on line 38

Help lol !

Ive also got an error on my forums now double help http://www.worldofchat.co.uk/Forum

Woc

[monkeywarplane]

Originally Posted by Hex_legend

Seems to work for me.
Gutted that you can only invite 16 users at a time
www.thesocialmeet.com/fb_invite.php

Great little addition. I want to add this on too, but when I attempt to skip the step (not invite anyone), it just flashes and goes back to the screen (does not allow me to skip).

I tried both socialmeet and http://cellphoneforums.net/fb_invite.php - same result.

Stuart

[tpearl5]

Originally Posted by monkeywarplane

Great little addition. I want to add this on too, but when I attempt to skip the step (not invite anyone), it just flashes and goes back to the screen (does not allow me to skip).

I tried both socialmeet and http://cellphoneforums.net/fb_invite.php - same result.

Stuart

I just modified it to redirect to forum home on skip. I think it will still invite properly. https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....postcount=1072

[monkeywarplane]

Originally Posted by tpearl5

I just modified it to redirect to forum home on skip. I think it will still invite properly. https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....postcount=1072

Great. Just added it to mine, seems to be working well.

http://forums.interbasket.net/fb_invite.php

Stuart

[sdsvtdriver]

interesting... suddenly, it has stopped sending updates to my Facebook account.

The settings are set to 'prompt me before posting' but when I post on my forum, I am not being prompted...

not sure if this is related to the 2.0.3 update or not.

[plumbingskool]

Hi,

I just added this and I am having trouble understanding some things:

I have read and saw that you have to merge new users with existing to merge account, that part I get.

But lets say I create a new member or login with my facebook account that is not connected to my forum yet and then I do the bridge.

I have done this and I get no code errors BUT when I make a new post and such I don't see this feature working like in the screenshot..

Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?

I mean everything works, like I said no code errors or log in errors but seems features are missing for me unless I missed something, I read the install.html a bunch of time,.

Also has there been any other work around to the forum full of people and then them wanting to connect their accounts or is the "merge user" still the best option?

Thanks in advance for your support and feedback, here is a screenshot of the feature I dont see

[maroceve]

Guys, i have a database error when i enter any discussion on my board.

Everything else works perfectly...any ideas ?

i have VBSEO ..can that be it ?


Database error in vBulletin 3.7.1:

Invalid SQL:

SELECT fbuid
FROM fbuser
WHERE userid =
LIMIT 1;

MySQL Error : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'LIMIT 1' at line 4
Error Number : 1064
Request Date : Tuesday, January 27th 2009 @ 08:14:40 AM
Error Date : Tuesday, January 27th 2009 @ 08:14:40 AM
Script : http://www.maroceve.com/forums/artis...abat-sale.html
Referrer : http://www.maroceve.com/forums/forum39/
IP Address : 81.192.184.75
Username : EzFacebook
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version :