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.

[jlew24asu]

side note. I was able to log in this morning, long enough to try and install the new version 1.1.1

I did notice however that the product is still version 1.1.0 in the products and plug in manager in admincp

[TomJames]

Originally Posted by jlew24asu

in your admincp however do you have this www.mysiteurl.com/forums ?

I can't see an option that asks for that in the admin CP (under FB Options), unless you mean the one in General Settings, if so yep.

[jlew24asu]

Originally Posted by TomJames

I can't see an option that asks for that in the admin CP (under FB Options), unless you mean the one in General Settings, if so yep.

yes I meant in general settings.


at this point, something is wrong with my db. that, and CMPS is causing some sort of conflict. (both educated guesses)

slik has been been working with me to fix, and its my fault for not doing a backup before installing, but this mod has basically taken down my board.

[yinyang]

After some sleep last night, I took a look at the upgrade I did and everything looks right. I still can't figure out why when I click on the facebook connect, nothing happens.

anyone have any ideas?

[jlew24asu]

Originally Posted by yinyang

After some sleep last night, I took a look at the upgrade I did and everything looks right. I still can't figure out why when I click on the facebook connect, nothing happens.

anyone have any ideas?

what browser are you using? maybe try a different one. I was getting different results with firefox, IE, and Chrome.

but then again, I have bigger issues if you havent noticed

[yinyang]

okay, i got it to bring up the facebook login window.

but after i input the necessary information, nothing happens. it just reloads the fblogin.php page. i actually had that problem in the very beginning and it was a php4 issue. since then i did upgrade to php5 as it is now, but still no joy.

[TomJames]

Originally Posted by yinyang

After some sleep last night, I took a look at the upgrade I did and everything looks right. I still can't figure out why when I click on the facebook connect, nothing happens.

anyone have any ideas?

Indeed, try with different browsers (and pages), for example on mine it works perfectly with Firefox but with IE and Opera nothing happens unless you navigate to another page, for example Calendar.

okay, i got it to bring up the facebook login window.

but after i input the necessary information, nothing happens. it just reloads the fblogin.php page. i actually had that problem in the very beginning and it was a php4 issue. since then i did upgrade to php5 as it is now, but still no joy.

What's your forum URL? I wouldn't mind trying to login to see if I have any better luck.

[blazinthu]

[QUOTE=TomJames;1683863]Indeed, try with different browsers (and pages), for example on mine it works perfectly with Firefox but with IE and Opera nothing happens unless you navigate to another page, for example Calendar.

I am having sort of the Same issue everything was working yesterday till I did the upgrade this morning. I cannot get the pop up from my main page where I am running CMPS, but if I got the the forum or calendar or register It will open the popup... anyone having this same issue??

[nascartr]

I had to recheck the templates for the 1.1.1 upgrade. Something minor has changed from 1.1.0 to 1.1.1 and at first all I did was re-upload the files and import the XML and then the pop up wouldn't work on any page at all. I then checked the template edits and searched for what was already there and just copied them over. Something changed in the edits that now allows the popup on all pages but without the edits causes it not to display on any page.

[Digital Jedi]

So far I have this running on a forum in a forums directory with none of the issues that have been reported. I still haven't gone in and try to add the connect links to the vBadvanced pages, but that's only a matter of adding some lines of code another style.

The only thing I am noticing is there doesn't appear to be any difference in my User CP where I believe there's supposed to be something different for FaceBook users in the Change Email and Password setting. Is that right, or is that just a background change in effect? It could be that because I use the GT Private Message enhancements its not showing. That mod generates different templates for the USECP_SHELL, but normally I can make the same edits to those templates with no problems.

Oh, there does appear to be a javascript error on the Arcade page even before you try to login. 'xdChannelUrl' is null or not an object

I've also noted that in FireFox, logging out of one site or the other tries to redirect you to the home page of your forum where you end up at http://www.cogonline.net/fblogin.php. You can't navigate to the homepage at all without being taken here, unless you close FireFox and reopen it.

Other then that, nothing real egregious for a BETA.