Integration with vBulletin - Facebook Connect - Allow your users to login with their Facebook account (for 3.8)

Staff Note: Moved to Graveyard - this will never work now that the old style facebook authentication is no longer available.


Facebook Connect
This add-on allows your guests and existing users to login with their Facebook account through Facebook Connect.

There is NO NEED to upgrade or reinstall if you already installed this mod for 3.7

Upgrade to 2.0.6 so that users with the new super long IDs will be able to login.


This mod conflicts with PhotoPost vBGallery!
Quick fix:
Disable the following PhotoPost vBGallery plugins:

• Userinfo Merge
• Integrate Postbit Showthread

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!

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.

[Gamelobby]

Yea it lets me do everything else, but it wouldn't let me hit the "forums" link on the top menu.
But it is working i got a msg on my facebook account. from your site.

But im hoping this mod does more than that.. otherwise im not sure giving up an email address is worth it.

How does this mod help gain more members.?

[Vaupell]

ahem a little update..

it appears to be working now. as usual around ? mins after installation
im starting to suspect my host of chache websites

atleast i think it works,, would be nice if someone could test.

[Gamelobby]

i would but i dont see the facebook button.?
Cherry is default

*edit*
Yep it works.



PS. there is no E in Gaming - http://www.evisystems.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=25

[Vaupell]

Originally Posted by Gamelobby

i would but i dont see the facebook button.?
Cherry is default

PS. there is no E in Gaming - http://www.evisystems.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=25

wth,, hmm Main should be default.. lol tx..

well locked styles to one now

[KevinL]

Originally Posted by Gamelobby

Yea it lets me do everything else, but it wouldn't let me hit the "forums" link on the top menu.
But it is working i got a msg on my facebook account. from your site.

But im hoping this mod does more than that.. otherwise im not sure giving up an email address is worth it.

How does this mod help gain more members.?

If you don't mind, could you click on an actual forum? Like the den? And see if it does anything?

Originally Posted by Vaupell

ahem a little update..

it appears to be working now. as usual around ? mins after installation
im starting to suspect my host of chache websites

atleast i think it works,, would be nice if someone could test.

Works just fine I didn't post but I could get everywhere OK.

[Gamelobby]

Hey KevinL you need to give facebook usergroup arcade access.

[Vaupell]

still just find it odd users cant edit their "own" email,
but i find it extremely cool that you can login with a botton click.

Im just thinking maybe the facebook registration should have a seperate field
for the facebook UID

so users are still "allowed" if they feel like it to edit their email. .

[KevinL]

Originally Posted by Gamelobby

Hey KevinL you need to give facebook usergroup arcade access.

thank you haha

[Lone Gunman]

Originally Posted by sllik

go to FB Connect Settings -> Settings -> and save your settings (even if you didn't change anything). And Make sure the news-feed template id's are filled in.

still having same problem. im still pretty new to this stuff so im sure im just overlooking something or misinterpreting your instructions. heres a couple screen shots just to see if everything looks right. i appreciate your help. this is one of the coolest mods ive seen on here.

voted motm.

[Gamelobby]

What is Facebook "UID" ??