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.

[TriMe]

Updated TMS module for 1.1.2

[ViciousCode]

thanks, but how can i make the button direct me to the forums after clicking the Connect button, because i integrated it with the Simple Login on Non-VB pages mod, but it only logs in after clicking the forums link, but i want the pop up to direct me to the forums after pressing the Connect button

[sllik]

Originally Posted by thepretorian

The forum is http://forums.asianlink.be
It usually shows the blank page after a while. After I close the browser and opens it again then it all works or when I just disable the mod in the acp, it directly shows the forum again.

Also sometimes I get this error from Adobe Flash player


SecurityError: Error #2060: violation of the securitysandbox: ExternalInterface http://static.ak.connect.facebook.com/swf/XdComm.swf doesn't have access to http://forums.asianlink.be/.
at flash.external::ExternalInterface$/_initJS()
at flash.external::ExternalInterface$/addCallback()
at XdComm()

what do you mean a blank page? a 404 error?

[TriMe]

I just noticed that users who sign up for the first time are getting the 'short' stories in there Facebook notification area, and are also seeing the new email setting in 'edit your details' section. Like in the attached picture

Users who connect to Facebook that had an account previously aren't getting the notifications or the new email setting in the usercp

1.1.2 is installed.

[Paxion]

uninstalled. Not sure if it's a comflict with other products i have but i can't get this to work.

It takes a lot to frustrate me to give up on troubleshooting a product install issue.

may try later when product is a lil more stable.

[sllik]

Originally Posted by Paxion

uninstalled. Not sure if it's a comflict with other products i have but i can't get this to work.

It takes a lot to frustrate me to give up on troubleshooting a product install issue.

may try later when product is a lil more stable.

what was the isuue?

[Digital Jedi]

Are there any special changes I would need to make if my vBa homepage is not in the root forum directory? Logging in from the index takes me to the http://www.cogonline.net/fblogin.php page. I'm currently handling that with a redirect.

[punchbowl]

Love this as a concept but i'll have to be careful with the fb usergroup permissions as it'll be an open day for trolls!

[note to self: Maybe allow to post but not start threads] Can I get the face book button in a seperate column to the right of the username/pw box easily?

Tagged for a later install. Thanks for the release sllik - great work.

[thepretorian]

Originally Posted by sllik

what do you mean a blank page? a 404 error?

No just a blank white page with nothing one. Neither on FF or IE, after I turn the mod of and one again it all works again. It already happened a couple of times.

[jammiedodger546]

Getting a fatal error when trying to log out of my normal account.

Fatal error: Call to undefined method Facebook::kill_cookies() in /home/********/public_html/includes/functions_login.php(409) : eval()'d code on line 9