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.

[yinyang]

Originally Posted by TomJames

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.



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

Thanks TomJames. URL = www.sirenssociety.com

[stryka]

If you can do the profile/avatar import that would be great... cuz right now... new members are not required to pick a avatar and that sorta sux... but the facebook import will make sure that something is set...

[TriMe]

Originally Posted by janslu

There's an error in fblogin.php of version 1.1.1 -comment out line #35:
There is:

PHP Code:

echo $scriptpath; 


Should be:

PHP Code:

#echo $scriptpath; 


Can this be confirmed before I edit the file please?

[stryka]

Hmm... can a member of a forum automatically become a member of a group? Or a better way to ask the question... how do i get my members as my friend on facebook or part of my group? Can this be automated once they join...

[noonespecial]

Any chance of this in 3.6?

[soulface]

When I merge an existing forum users with facebook it's works fine but after creating a new user via facebook connect, When I try to view that user profile OR when that new user try to browse forum (can't even view any forum page) that user & I'm getting this db error

Database error in vBulletin 3.7.4:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT location, badlocation FROM session WHERE userid =  AND lastactivity > 1229150366 ORDER BY lastactivity DESC LIMIT 1;

MySQL Error   : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'AND lastactivity > 1229150366 ORDER BY lastactivity DESC LIMIT 1' at line 1
Error Number  : 1064
Request Date  : Saturday, December 13th 2008 @ 01:09:26 AM
Error Date    : Saturday, December 13th 2008 @ 01:09:27 AM
Script        : http://www.xxxxxxxxxxxxx/members/xenux/
Referrer      : http://www.xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
IP Address    : 
Username      : 
Classname     : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 4.1.22-standard

[raiderlax]

This is a really cool mod. Are you going to make it available for vbulletin 3.8 when it's released?

[thepretorian]

Since the new version I sometimes get a blank page in FF or IE. When I disable the mod then it all works again.

[Wakey]

Ok seems my issues were server config issues, noticed a few odd things in my phpinfo file so changed some settings and now it works.

One thing though, sometimes admin/mod access will timeout and it will ask you for the the username and password again. Will just changing the template to include the facebook connect button allow login to admin/mod cpanels if they have the user rights OR are there other changes that need made?

[TomJames]

Originally Posted by raiderlax

This is a really cool mod. Are you going to make it available for vbulletin 3.8 when it's released?

It works fine on 3.8 at the moment .