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.

[razorripper]

no one wants to install even for a price ? ?

[busybeeburns]

This is a fantastic mod that opens up a host of opportunities for vBulletin communities, however after brutally testing it over the last 24 hours, I have major issues with its neat compatibility with vBulletin. If anyone can help or discuss these I'd be grateful. These are:

1) Changes to Facebook or vBulletin in the future may render this mod incompatible, relying then on support from the developer to bring this mod back in line; if hundreds of administrators are relying on support from a sole developer who decides they are no longer bothered to upgrade for future facebook/vBulletin releases, this will have huge implications for incorrect login functions for potentially millions of registered members across the vBulletin communities.

2) Facebook holds registration details of members, eg. email addresses and passwords. If this mod was ever ditched, I could in theory have thousands of members unable to log in to my forum unless each account was manually altered in admincp. Registered members are unable to do this themselves as changes to email addys or passwords would not be possible as vBulletin would not recognise their original/old details. A logistical nightmare for administrators of large vB communities.

3) It appears that facebook Connect users cannot be contacted via mass email or mass PM add-ons as such users are not found within the database. This effectively renders the use of these important functions useless in the long-term. Especially important should the need arise above where they must take action to continue to log in to the messageboard.

4) I would like to see fblogin.php altered to accept Connect for exisiting vBulletin members only, or tweaked to go via a vB registration process where an vB email address and password can be added. The problems 1-3 above wouldn't exist if this was an alternative installation.

Apart from those important issues the mod is perfect!

[mnlawson]

Are you able to ban Facebook Connect users from your site if they spam it?

[mickknutson]

How can I promote this on facebook now?

[Uegnet]

Originally Posted by busybeeburns

4) ... or tweaked to go via a vB registration process where an vB email address and password can be added. The problems 1-3 above wouldn't exist if this was an alternative installation ...

Oh, yes please! Glad you pointed out number 1 and 2 there mister, didn't think of those
Think I'll uninstall, but with extra e-mail/pw for vBulletin I'll reinstall in a second.

[SHANE-D-PAIN]

I get this every single damned time I reply to or post a new thread. :/
http://www.grabup.com/uploads/2e26eb...b7acfadba3.jpg

It only started to happen when I upgraded to 2.05. Before it would just remember to publish each post, now it's just annoying. :/

Help appreciated.

[hydn]

Seems your question is being ignored.

Originally Posted by mnlawson

Are you able to ban Facebook Connect users from your site if they spam it?

[mickknutson]

I actually am getting a very strange error in FireBug:

Permission denied to call method Location.toString
http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/...ect.js.pkg.php
Line 556

I have attached the screen shot as well...

In the upper right hand screen of firebug is this url:
http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/...ect.js.pkg.php

So what the heck is this?

[orkyn]

It works...!!

Thx for great hack...

[Keyser520]

I went through all the instructions (including the optional steps), but I don't see where my users are supposed to link their fb account to their forum account?