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.

[want3ed]

Facebook profile URL option isnot working in my forum.. Could anyone help me with it..

[testbot]

i think this mod has to be updated. facebook changed the api key i think.

http://forum.developers.facebook.com...c.php?pid=5594

getting this in feeds now:
Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'FacebookRestClientException' with message 'Session key invalid or no longer valid'

[orkyn]

wait for next update..

I need this mod like crazy...

[nanabite]

When a new user signs up, the mapped fields do not seem to get populated for me. Am I misunderstanding how it should work? Do the fields just display, or is the data physically copied into my vBulletin database?

I really would like to make the data copy into the vBulletin database as I have some compulsory fields which need to be filled in before a user can post (for example, the user must supply their real name). These fields can all be mapped from Facebook, and this would make the experience far more seamless.

[mnlawson]

Hello -

Does anyone know of 3-5 websites that have the V-Bulletin / Facebook Connect integration.
I just need to see some websites that have FBC working properly with VBulletin.

Thank you!

Marlon Lawson

[vAsia]

I wonder if I could turn off vBulletin registration, and have people login using fconnect only.

[Mum]

Originally Posted by mnlawson

Hello -

Does anyone know of 3-5 websites that have the V-Bulletin / Facebook Connect integration.
I just need to see some websites that have FBC working properly with VBulletin.

Thank you!

Marlon Lawson

You can log into my site using FB to check it out if you like www.mummybrain.com

[tpearl5]

Originally Posted by mnlawson

Hello -

Does anyone know of 3-5 websites that have the V-Bulletin / Facebook Connect integration.
I just need to see some websites that have FBC working properly with VBulletin.

Thank you!

Marlon Lawson

I have over 1000 fb users now - http://cellphoneforums.net

[Ozidoggy]

Also my site

www.specialistcanines.com

[Wseries]

I have installed and tested this and everything seems to work okay. The only thing that really bothers me is the fact users who use this to create an account to access my forum do not have to agree to my forum rules. This is huge for me and prevents me from enabling this mod. Any chance that in a future update the forum rules are displayed (as per the normal registration process) and must be agreed to before the users gets to the page to choose a login name?