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.

[Goomzee]

everything is done but i make newreply or new thread it's show me 1 message about you must have 10 words where i made thread more then 10 words but it still show same message plz help

[safakuygur]

thanks friends very good

[Goomzee]

but dude it's not working

[Ricsca]

"Is there no way to save all the facebook-registered users' emails?

[TNCclubman]

I was going to install this when I realized there is no way to contact any of the people that register this way... Basically, its a great mod for people that just want traffic to come to their site, but the actual memberships are 100% of no value to anyone that wants to make money with their website showing potential investors how many members they have.

Im so sad, I was soooo looking forward to installing this. It may be great for some, but to me it isnt.

Absolutely no offence to the coder, it really is a great mod. I still think its mod of the year.

[Mukashi]

Would it be possible perhaps to set things up so existing users could simply link their accounts to their Facebook accounts, without allowing guests to sign in or post through their Facebook accounts?

I'd also have the same worry a few people have mentioned here regarding the news posts regarding posts made in private forums. Would there be any way to exclude specific forums from that functionality?

[wmlvb]

Originally Posted by Phaedrus

If they come through using the Facebook Connect it draws information from Facebook and creates an account for them.

They become a registered user.

If you already have a Facebook account and are a member of your board you can connect that Facebook account to the board allowing it to post "stories" or other things like that.

I like this idea but I have about a dozen usergroups created and they have access to certain private areas and features based on those usergroups. I used the registration system for them to tell me what usergroups they should belong to. I still do further screening for private areas. Is there a way to force people who log through Face book have to make an introduction in our community introduction forum and state how they are affiliated with our discussions group before we allow them to start posing and/or see the forums as a registered user? Thanks

[wmlvb]

Do you get credit for new member when people sign in through facebook?

[TNCclubman]

Yep, it creates a new account on your board, but without an email attached to it. Kind of like a fantom account.

[Ricsca]

Originally Posted by TNCclubman

I was going to install this when I realized there is no way to contact any of the people that register this way... Basically, its a great mod for people that just want traffic to come to their site, but the actual memberships are 100% of no value to anyone that wants to make money with their website showing potential investors how many members they have.

Im so sad, I was soooo looking forward to installing this. It may be great for some, but to me it isnt.

Absolutely no offence to the coder, it really is a great mod. I still think its mod of the year.

I also believe what you believe.
There is no way to add users in addition to its nickname also their password and their email?