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.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by jbj

Im confused with this in the instructions.

Set the Callback URL to your vBulletin url (example: http://www.siteurl.com/forum/)
I see allot of callback url settings.
What specific callback URL do I need to set here?
I see Information Update Callback URL,Post-Authorize Callback URL,Post-Remove Callback URL

They changed a few things since this mod was developed. I believe you just put it in Post-Authorize Callback, if I'm not mistaken.

Go to the Canvas tab and set the Canvas Page URL (to whatever you want)
What is a canvas page?

Thanks!

It's in the Facebook Application you just created.

Originally Posted by fmckinnon

Hey,
Has anyone else gotten this warning from Facebook Developers? I'm assuming this is applying to this plugin, as we aren't using any other "facebook connect" features on our site. See below, hope to hear back from the coder. We are running the latest version:

Yeah, it's related to the publishing method the mod uses. It doesn't sound like anything will be affected, the way they've phrased it. It just won't be the most optimum way to publish anymore. I imagine they'll eventually phase it out.

[ucsdchris]

Originally Posted by fmckinnon

Hey,
Has anyone else gotten this warning from Facebook Developers? I'm assuming this is applying to this plugin, as we aren't using any other "facebook connect" features on our site. See below, hope to hear back from the coder. We are running the latest version:

I just just about to post the same thing!!

Does anyone have a solution for this?

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by ucsdchris

I just just about to post the same thing!!

Does anyone have a solution for this?

See my post above yours.

[Krika]

I emailed to the owner of this mod, however i haven't got an answer yet. Does anybody know who to contact in order to get this mod installed? (:

[mytweakerart]

Originally Posted by playSocial

Ok I got my initial issue resolved. However now when I try and connect I get the following after I click the button and ok the facebook request

what fixed the 'nothingness' after clciking the button?

[is_it_me]

Originally Posted by TheWindows7Site

Will this be upgraded to support 4.x.x?

I would be interested in the answer to this as I wanted to install this feature, but I'll be upgrading to vB4.02 as soon as it's released.

Thanks in advance from the numpty that hasn't a clue what he's doing!

[mytweakerart]

Originally Posted by sllik

1. Have you set up your facebook application? If so in the facebook application settings there is a setting called Callback URL. Set it to your forum's url. And thats it!

2. The Feed Template IDs will be automatically set once you go to FB Connect Options > News-Feed Templates and click on [ Register Default Templates ]

Hope this helps

WHEN I CLICK on
FB Connect Options > News-Feed Templates
or
FB Connect Options > Data mapping
I get NOTHING but a BLANK page.

also, i get the login button to show up, and it seems to popup a facebook ---------> <------------ windows asking for name and password, then when thats entered i get a blank page http://mytweakerart.com/facebooklogin.php
I have tried this twice im going nuts! Help?


Monthly Active Users
0
Application Fans
0
Total Users
0
API Key
243840dd17720adc5698xxxbxxxetc
Application Secret
f2d2fa7b286712cfb94b2xxxxxxxxetc
Application ID
293324364773
Contact Email
mytweakerart@gmail.com
Support Email
mytweakerart@gmail.com
Canvas Callback URL
http://mytweakerart.com/
Connect URL
http://mytweakerart.com/
Base Domain
mytweakerart.com
Canvas URL
http://apps.facebook.com/tweakerart/
FBML/iframe
iframe
Developer Mode
Off
Application Type
Website
Connect Preview URL
http://mytweakerart.com/
Post-Remove URL
http://mytweakerart.com/
Post-Authorize URL
http://mytweakerart.com/
Private Install
No
Application Description
http://mytweakerart.com/

[xcingix]

can someone test the facebook connect on my forums. i honestly dont know how to explain what happens. you click facebook connect, it puts you though, you set your nickname and then nothing. i don't know what's wrong with it.

thanks in advance

[is_it_me]

Originally Posted by xcingix

can someone test the facebook connect on my forums. i honestly dont know how to explain what happens. you click facebook connect, it puts you though, you set your nickname and then nothing. i don't know what's wrong with it.

thanks in advance

Hi, I tried to connect via Facebook and it seemed to work as I got this message:

Hello Doctor Watson,
Our records indicate that you have never posted to our site before! Why not make your first post today by saying hello to our community in our Introductions forum.

Why not start with your first post today and become an active part of ny-dev now!

- but when I tried to view or start a thread I just got the database error message:

Database error
The New York Design & Development Forums database has encountered a problem.

[xcingix]

Originally Posted by is_it_me

Hi, I tried to connect via Facebook and it seemed to work as I got this message:

Hello Doctor Watson,
Our records indicate that you have never posted to our site before! Why not make your first post today by saying hello to our community in our Introductions forum.

Why not start with your first post today and become an active part of ny-dev now!

- but when I tried to view or start a thread I just got the database error message:

Database error
The New York Design & Development Forums database has encountered a problem.

yeah it's weird because i get database errors when i try to create new threads with the member i created using facebook connect too, but not with any other members i have created. you'll also notice that if you click on you rusername you get a database error, but if you click on mine, you dont