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.

[Bacon Butty]

Any way to prevent the login status php script running when members are already logged in? - even ones without a facebook account.

[NgocTam]

Does anyone know how to deal with this problem ?

Fatal error:
Please complete the required field "Email".
Unable to proceed with save while $errors array is not empty in class vB_DataManager_User in [path]/includes/class_dm.php on line 810

I received that when I tried to input a non-existing username into the form after logging in via fbConnect !!!

[Blacura]

I have had this hack instlalled for a while and i didnt notice but its not allowing some usergroups to post any replies or create threads. Is there a fix?
i am on ver 3.8.3

[saikat]

Originally Posted by hydn

I've been reporting this prob for 2 months and other have posted also. Still no reply as to cause or solution.

I've even sent the $25 to developer and not even a response.

I have not done any of the optional template edits. Yet this error is seen when clicking any of the showthread pages.

Any ideas?

The same thing was happening to me. I looked at some of the files in the upload directory and noticed that some php files began with <?php while others began with <? I converted all of them to <?php and it started working. The PHP parser was getting confused.

Hope that helps.
saikat

[saikat]

Originally Posted by tr03bor

I get this on trying to login

The same thing was happening to me. I looked at some of the files in the upload directory and noticed that some php files began with <?php while others began with <? I converted all of them to <?php and it started working. The PHP parser was getting confused.

Hope that helps.
saikat

[jlew24asu]

I can't believe people are still installing this after the daily reports of issues. I'm equally surprised that the admins here allow this horrible mod to stay

[tpearl5]

I've installed this mod on several forums without any problems.

[jlew24asu]

Originally Posted by tpearl5

I've installed this mod on several forums without any problems.

yea, me too, although I was forced to pay the coder to make it work. but just look around. so many people have problems with essentially zero support.

[tpearl5]

So many people are having problems because they're not following the directions. Don't get me wrong, I think the coder should support this more, or someone else should pick it up, but I don't think it should be removed because some people can't figure out how to use it.

[tpearl5]

Originally Posted by Blacura

I have had this hack instlalled for a while and i didnt notice but its not allowing some usergroups to post any replies or create threads. Is there a fix?
i am on ver 3.8.3

That's very vague - are facebook users set to go into a different usergroup? It sounds like the permissions for that group are different from your primary registered group.