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YAFB - Yay! Another Facebook Bridge
Version: 3.3.2, by mrpaint mrpaint is offline
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Category: Integration with vBulletin - Version: 4.0.x Rating:
Released: 01-06-2010 Last Update: 09-29-2011 Installs: 462
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This is not just a "port" for vBulletin 4 of this modification, this is the next version of the modification which support both vBulletin 4 and vBulletin 3 family

IMPORTANT: FILE ISSUES HERE: http://code.google.com/p/vbulletinfacebook/issues/list (require a Google Account)

Yay! Another Facebook Bridge 3.3.2
Tested to work with vBulletin 3.7.x and 3.8.x (3.6.x requires some manual edit, contact me for detail instruction)
Tested to work with vBulletin 4.0 (use different .xml import file)
Please note: this product requires PHP5. If you get weird error messages, please check if you PHP version is still 4 (which is very old and you should change to PHP5 as soon as possible). Also, MySQL 5 is strongly recommended

[WHAT IS IT?]
There are many vBulletin - Facebook bridge out there but installing is always the problem for most of forum owner. So I decided to build this product from scratch and provide you the ability to install this Facebook Bridge into your forum in 10 minutes. The detail install instruction can be found below (under the Feature section). A few technical notes: This product uses Facebook Connect to maintance connection between vBulletin forums and complicated (and awesome) Facebook servers. All most everything is automatically done by the script, even the Administrators don't need to do any manual editing (yeah, I'm talking about manual templates editing, you WON'T need to edit templates each time you implement a new style). Once again, most of everything is options which can be enabled/disabled via AdminCP or UserCP interface. All possible type of caching is use to improve performance and reduce heavy PHP load on server side or javascript load on client side. Well, it's quite a long paragraph for introducing. Let's make it work!

[SEE IT IN ACTION]
Screencast:
1. Installation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ComjeipReE4
2. Connecting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7m85O_iX70
3. Posting and Notifications: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBwwiffLvJ8
Demo board:
vBulletin 3.8: http://daohoangson.com/vb38
vBulletin 4: http://daohoangson.com/vb40
Authentication Username: demo. Password: demo.

[MAIN FEATURE]
*** Damn easy to install!
1. Loaded with long list of actions/notifications: posting thread, posting reply, rating thread, sending pm, sending visitor message, uploading image (avatar/profile picture), uploading pictures, comment on pictures. This list are designed to be expandable easily later by me or other people who loves to develope this product (well, if you do, contact me right now!)
2. Ability to quick register with Facebook credential but Administrator can disable this function via AdminCP. Facebook proxied email addresses are handled completely and vBulletin can send email without any problems (of course, the member must grant the Email extend permission). There is a setting in AdminCP to disallow Facebook proxied email addresses also for boards that need email explicitly
3. Ability to auto login with Facebook session (Administrator can turn this on or off in AdminCP and members can enable or disable this feature on their accounts either)
4. Other abilities: Display a profile block on vBulletin member page. Display a wall tab/box on Facebook profile page. Synchronize avatar from Facebook.
5. [AdminCP] Administrator can "edit" template bundle easily. Actually the old template will be deactivated, the new template will be registered and then all action associated with the old template with be updated with the new template bundle id. Oops, why you need to care about all of it? I did it for you already! Just go the the editing page and click Edit. Yay! All done
6. [AdminCP] Staffs can manage connected users and see basic information about them (including granted permissions)
7. [AdminCP] Administrator can decide to: migrate connected users from other products to YAFB, restrict private forums from being posted to Facebook, view detail log of YAFB in action, send notifications to connected users
*. [Experimental] I have added a fun feature that generate the Fans List, the photo will be posted to new thread with friend tagged (if available). The main purpose of this bonus feature is to demostrate the ability of the bridge. If you have an idea, contact me and I will implement it if I can
*. [Experimental] Friend Inviting functionality is added. Access from UserCP > Facebook Bridge > Invite Friends

[CHANGE LOG]
Version 3.3.2 (released on Jun 10, 2010): Register On-the-fly issue with vBulletin 3.8.4 fixed
Version 3.3.1 (released on Jun 08, 2010): Bug fixes and Migration for vBulletin 4.0.3

Version 3.3 (released on Apr 06, 2010): Auto login related features added. User experience reached a new higher level!

[NEW INSTALLATION]
*. Upload all files/folders in folder "upload" into your forum root (Please upload before importing product)
1. Import Product:
1.1. Go to AdminCP
1.2. Plugins & Products ~> Manage Products ~> Add/Import Product:
1.2.1. Browse to the .xml file (use product-yafb.xml for vBulletin 3 and product-yafb_vb4.xml for vBulletin 4)
1.2.2. Click Import

2. Fill the settings:
2.1. Go to AdminCP
2.2. vBulletin Options ~> vBulletin Options ~> Yay! Another Facebook Bridge
2.2. Create a Facebook Application if you haven't had one for your forum. Refer to the Creating Facebook Application below if you don't know how to do it
2.3. Fill the API key and Secret into the approriate fields. You can leave the Template fields untouch (the will be filled automatically). If you want to use the Account Reclamation feature, please place http://domain.com/forums/register.php?do=fbb_reclaim into Account Reclamation URL field. With other fields, it's your decision to made
2.4. Click Save and you are done!

2.* Creating Facebook Application:
2.*.1. Go to Facebook Developer > Create Application page http://www.facebook.com/developers/createapp.php (login if you didn't)
2.*.2. Enter the Application Name. Suggestion: Put your forum name here. Don't forget to tick the Agree radiobox and then click Save Changes
2.*.3. Now you can get your API Key and Secret (that are needed in step 2.3)
2.*.4. And go to the Connect tab, fill your forum url into Connect URL, fill your domain into Base Domain.
2.*.5. You are done with required information. But you can go through other tab and enter more detail about your forum, your application. I suggest putting a nice icon, banner into it. Happy customizing!

[UPGRADING]
Just upload overwrite files/folders then reimport the xml file. Do not forget to check "Yes" under "Allow Overwrite" to upgrade

[CONFLICT]
Since this product interfere with the registration procedure, I have found some other plugins/products that conficts with this product. Below is the full list of known confict and action taken to resolve the issue
No Spam (Human Verification): Temporary disabled during Facebook registration
vMail (Email Verification): Temporary disabled during Facebook registration

[OTHER PLUGINS/PRODUCTS]
I have developed an easy to use options/permissions system that allow other plugins/products to add it's actions into this bridge and let the forum members experience a whole new era of connections. I did a small demostration with my kBank System (which is a money system with award/thank functionality and a useful hiding feature) and it runs pretty well. If you are interested in testing kBank in action with YAFB, contact me. If you are a developer who wants to integrate your plugins/products with this Bridge, contact me either! You are all welcome
*Also available: Publishing Blog (vBBlog) to Facebook [New! Updated on Jan 10th, 2010]


[KNOWN ISSUES]
FILE HERE: http://code.google.com/p/vbulletinfacebook/issues/list (require a Google Account)

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File Type: zip YAFB 3.3.2 Installation.zip (388.2 KB, 2109 views)
File Type: zip YAFB 3.3.2 Upgrade from 3.3.1.zip (5.7 KB, 312 views)

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  #372  
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It does post it to the Page wall, but looks to be only posting it to the 'Just Fans' part.

ie: http://www.facebook.com/nzboards - click the Wall tab and then Just Fans, there's some of mine there.

*edit* <jedihandmovement> Pay no attention to the fact the links are not dynamic. </jedihandmovement>
Good Eye.
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Old 02-01-2010, 06:29 PM
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Yeah.. cos it might be a bit annoying to have all the random stuff coming up on the actual Page's wall.

If it could be conditioned to only specific Userid or Usergroupids, that might be feasible.

(The non-dynamic linkage is my current side project to integrate this with vBSEO )
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kall would u mind sharing how you got it to post in the application wall?
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kall would u mind sharing how you got it to post in the application wall?
It is in the forum manager edit a forum and it is all the way at the bottom.
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Mmmhh,
Firstly really thanks for answer but it's really difficult to understand for me that you said.
In effect i see that the post on facebook has not the avatar that firstly there was.
Is possible that you are able to explain how if you spoke with a little baby for what i must d to solve this error?
i've inderstood to create a tmp directory in public_html ( is my main directory ) but after i do not now where is the safe mode that you have indicated.
Thanks for all
Actually the TMP dir should be the main directory not in the public_html atleast for me on my server it was. Safe mode uploading is in your AdminCP -> Server Settings and Optimization Options -> Safe Mode Upload Enabled
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My hero Mobe00 has saved me an other time and now it's all OK.
Thanks to all for indications and especially to mobe.
Good evening to all
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It is in the forum manager edit a forum and it is all the way at the bottom.
tried it again and still posting in my personal profile page instead of my application page
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tried it again and still posting in my personal profile page instead of my application page
Did you follow the instructions to the left of the box where you fill out your account information for each forum?

There is a link you have to click to get it to work.
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At the end of the recording I get this error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE, expecting ';' in /***/forums/fbb/runbox_hook_register_addmember_complete.php on line 5

Whay?
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Did you follow the instructions to the left of the box where you fill out your account information for each forum?

There is a link you have to click to get it to work.
i dont know how to say this, but wow was i stuck on stupid for a while.

so ive been knockin myself up trying to get this to post int he app or group page and for a while to no avail. then ur post made me redo everything n re-re-re-read everything again.
low n behold i was putting the wrong input this whole time.

i was using "http://www.facebook.com/pages/mypagename/mypageid". the right way off cource, was to put in just the page ID without the long url .

anyways..i put in the page ID and it works , so to try and push it even further i got the page ID of the group wall and put that in. and now all post are being posted in the group page like i wanted it to int he first place.

thank again BBR for making me rethink/redo the whole process.
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