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.

[stryka]

This is definetly getting closer to completion... keep it up

[sllik]

Those who are upgrading from 1.1.0 to 1.1.1 please don't forget to modify a template:
Edit Template - footer
Find:
FB.init("$vboptions[fbconnect_apikey]", "$fbconnect_xd_receiver");
Replace With:
FB.init("$vboptions[fbconnect_apikey]", "$vboptions[fbconnect_xd_receiver]");

[Booth]

Excellent mod :up: Installed.

[nascartr]

Originally Posted by sllik

Those who are upgrading from 1.1.0 to 1.1.1 please don't forget to modify a template:
Edit Template - footer
Find:
FB.init("$vboptions[fbconnect_apikey]", "$fbconnect_xd_receiver");
Replace With:
FB.init("$vboptions[fbconnect_apikey]", "$vboptions[fbconnect_xd_receiver]");

That's what I didn't do at first and I couldn't get the pop-up on any page. After doing that however it works on all pages now! I can't find any errors at all now!

[sllik]

Originally Posted by 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.

whats you're forum url, maybe i can help

[alv22]

This mod is very interesting.

When you login through Facebook and create a username for yourself, what will it set as the password? I can login through facebook later, but if I want to login through the forums own login form, it won't (obviously) accept the password used to login through facebook.

What happens to the people who register through FB? Are they forever offlimits to their username through the native login form?

[sllik]

Originally Posted by alv22

This mod is very interesting.

When you login through Facebook and create a username for yourself, what will it set as the password? I can login through facebook later, but if I want to login through the forums own login form, it won't (obviously) accept the password used to login through facebook.

What happens to the people who register through FB? Are they forever offlimits to their username through the native login form?

the admin can always set their password to whatever...

[sllik]

Originally Posted by playSocial

Even with the upgrade done I am still getting the error I was when you click the login button

Please if someone could look at the attached image and give me som clues as to what might be causing this problem I would really appreciate it. I have spent hours upon hours trying to sort it, including completly reinstalling the forum.

I think there is something really wrong with your server... this should never happen!

[Booth]

Oh damn, this isn't working on my VBAdvanced pages.

Works perfectly on everything in my VB folder however.

Any ideas?

[Boots]

I'm so on the fence on this lol

The only thing stopping me is having users who register via Facebook being required to use their Facebook login from that point on. Perhaps if they could choose a password at the time of registration, that would give them the choice of the native login if they so choose.