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]

Originally Posted by koolasia

Ok there is going to be a big issue if this plugin wont upgrade because people wont be able to reset their passwords.. as facebook sets some proxy emails as email and if we try to email these email the email wont reach anyone

Hi Koolasia.

This may help;

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=503

[AllinJac]

Not sure what the issue is and I will take ANY AND ALL Advice since the programmer is not responding...

Everything is working perfectly fine in Google Chrome but it (FB Connect box) only appears for a second after submitting a new post in vBulletin and then goes away!!!

Can anyone tell me what is up!

Things I have done:

Recopied both keys...
Made sure that url starts with www. and ends with trailing slash on FB and NO trailing slash on VB
re-registerd with FB Connect through vBulletin to make sure they were linked properly

ANY OTHER IDEAS!

PLEASE!!!!

I have to get ready for a big launch on Monday where we are going to have more then 100 beta testers using the site to get ready for our AllinJac 2.0 VERSION!

Thanks for your help!!!

Jeremiah

[AllinJac]

Has anyone here used YAFB...

It is the same crap as here where it is not supported and unable to get answers to our posts?

I see there is already a 4.0 Version for YAFB...

We are not going to be going to version 4.0 soon but knowing the possibility is there is necessary and knowing that it is supported is even more important!!!

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

Jeremiah
http://allinjac.com

[Kdicuori]

Hi,

we seem to have a problem .. actually 2.

The first and biggest one is that content posted to the forum does not make its way to facebook (when I post something, the facebook connect window pops up and closes immediately. then nothing appears on the facebook wall)

the second one is that, while retracking all steps to make sure that we did it all correctly, we re-registered the templates, duplicating them. We don't know where or how to remove the duplicates, or if it will affect working of the system. THe link for "deactivate" templates" just take me to a facebook page but nothing that seems relevant to the task.

Any clue .... anyone?

[cyberhrc]

Mod is working great but i wonder 1 thing:

Im using a bridge between my wordpress page and vbulletin forum.
So my 'main' users are those who register via forum [ those ppl than can normally comment on wordpress page etc ] so i wonder if there's some way to add facebook connect in widget on main page which is not forum ?

I know there are FB connects for wordpress but thats the problem.. I dont use 'wordpress' users, i use 'forum' users who got rights to use main page outside of forum

I hope i explained it clear

[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.

i still haven't had any help fixing this. is there anyone that has any idea why this isnt working?

[multiverse]

Damn! I just spent 3 hours getting this set up, and now I find out FB basically broke this thing. And no word from the dev. OMFG!

[mattyphatty]

Anyone tested this in vb 4.0?

[uspsoig]

does anyone know where you can make changes to the vbulletin facebook code so it uses SSL?

i'm using ssl on my site and the only thing that triggers an error is the fb connect.
the image appears to be hosted on an http site and i don't know how to change that?

i do have ssl working aside from the facebook connect - so i already know where to change the url in the admin panel for my site.

anybody help?

[MichaelDance]

Hey, im confused, i installed this before and it worked fine, but now i carnt get this to work now i rei-installed my vb cause i buggered it up.

under the Registered News-Feed Templates no register templates link to get the news feeds its just the title. any ideas why this wont work for me now?