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.

[Andem]

Originally Posted by Sweeks

How can you change the facebook button? Anyone know how exactly, thank you

That's pretty simple if you are OK with editing 1 file.

Open up clientscript/fbconnect.js and find line 34.

Replace:

<img id="fb_login_image" src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/images/fbconnect/login-buttons/connect_light_medium_long.gif" border="0" alt="Connect"/>

With:

<img id="fb_login_image" src="http://YOURSITE.COM/IMAGES/newimage.gif" border="0" alt="Connect"/>

Of course YOURSITE.COM/IMAGES/newimage.gif would be the location of where you new image is.

Cheers!

[Wakey]

Anyone know how I could add the button and get it working on my wiki which uses the Mediawiki bridge available on these forums. It should be possible as it uses the vbulletin login system but I cant work out how to add the button in a way that makes it work

[Derekclarke]

Hi I need help, I get this error when i Import the product.

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '{' in /home/site/public_html/includes/functions_fbconnect.php on line 79

it also stops anyone being able to view any threads.

Any Idea how to resolve?

Thanks
Derek

[Ticinofelino]

Installed, working perfectly, thanks!

[Derekclarke]

when did you download and which version?

I have tried 3 times and get the problem every time i import the Product?

[cynthetiq]

does anyone have any template edits besides the default ones for the Facebook wall post entries???? it would be great to be able to get it to add a snippet of the posted thread and a photo like other items.

[jlew24asu]

its amazing to me that it works for some but not for others...very consistently.

[Sweeks]

No longer giving the popup on click.
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[mdcdeve]

Originally Posted by Sweeks

No longer giving the popup on click.

I noticed this sometimes too, not sure why it happens sometimes and othertime not. Happened to me when i was testing it through the FB frame. Clearing cache/cookies etc solved the problem though.

Also i'm sure someone must of mentioned this before but hmm .. there are alot of pages. Anyways, is it possible for it to grab the location, and profile picture etc just one time and then save it, saving the profile picture>avatar to a certain folder rather than grabbing it again each time ? Thanks !

Edit: Also, is it possible to use this externally ? For instance using it together with deluxe vB login. Or a way to place the "Connect with Facebook" button with slight or full functionality on external pages.

[Lone Gunman]

Originally Posted by jlew24asu

its amazing to me that it works for some but not for others...very consistently.

i know. i even tried on my test board where only this is installed on a fresh vb3.8.1 and i had the exaxt same problems as on my main board and that several others also had. i dont know if its mysql or php related or how the server is set up...... or what.

i like this mod and am willing to pay the dev the $25 or whatever he charges to install. i think thats real reasonable. im just not convinced its stable enough yet. he might guarantee this will work but can he guarantee everything else on your board will still work?

plus like several others mentioned.... im waiting to where you can choose which forums get published to FB so private forum posts arent getting published. i think the dev is one of the most talented guys on this site and is onto something huge here and hope upcomming VB realeases have this standard. im just still a bit skeptical.