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.

[Keyser520]

Is it possible for a user to temporarily turn off the thing that brings up the facebook message after every post??

Or to make that always happen without having it ask for you to comment on it? i.e.. just to say "user replied to post" rather than asking for your comments.

How can i make it NOT change the user's status on facebook but still post to their wall?

Thanks!

[vbreal]

users who use facebook connect avatars show in posts even when a user has avatars and sig off in usercp.

i verified this by disabling facebook connect and the avatars stopped showing. they showed again once the mod was enabled

has anyone else encountered this? is there a fix?

[mach5des]

This plug-in works great. But I do get some issues with people who have a VB account and a FB account. The FB account gets confused and the user can't log-in without logging in with the WB account first.

Is there a fix for this?

[Mum]

Originally Posted by furst

Any plans of a Google Friend Connect version?

http://www.google.com/friendconnect/

Couldn't see any answer to this - any plans?

[mizamlar]

http://islam.seviyorum.gen.tr no connect

good facebook connect and bad word details

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[Mangia]

This is a great mod,

but the problem I'm having is that when I use my FB connect account to submit a thread, etc, I do not get the news-feed option to put it on my wall.

How would I go about fixing this?

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by Mangia

This is a great mod,

but the problem I'm having is that when I use my FB connect account to submit a thread, etc, I do not get the news-feed option to put it on my wall.

How would I go about fixing this?

Did you verify you made all the necessary template edits and to the proper skins?

[ComputerModding]

This mod is great and has helped with sign up numbers about 40 new members in the last 2 weeks which is not too bad but banned members have beene popping up on the board using their FB login details!!

Seems that when they use FB Connect that the system does not check the FB users for existing IP's used which is a huge pain as I have like 2,300 banned members who technically have free rain on the board again.

Anybody have any suggestions?

[dkny]

is there a way to have the threads appear on a facebook fan site wall instead of the personal wall?

[mmoore5553]

how do i change the connect with facebook icon ? i wanted it the smaller one.