Integration with vBulletin - Facebook Connect - Allow your users to login with their Facebook account (for 3.8)

Staff Note: Moved to Graveyard - this will never work now that the old style facebook authentication is no longer available.


Facebook Connect
This add-on allows your guests and existing users to login with their Facebook account through Facebook Connect.

There is NO NEED to upgrade or reinstall if you already installed this mod for 3.7

Upgrade to 2.0.6 so that users with the new super long IDs will be able to login.


This mod conflicts with PhotoPost vBGallery!
Quick fix:
Disable the following PhotoPost vBGallery plugins:

• Userinfo Merge
• Integrate Postbit Showthread

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!

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.

[m0nde]

Quotes below outline exactly the problems I'm facing.

It's impossible for me to associate existing accounts with fbConnect.
I have tried this several times with my own account and I am unable to get anything to show up on my Facebook wall when I post a new thread.

I think that a great deal of the issues people are having would be solved if this was installed via vBulletin's plug-in architecture instead of relying on template edits.
Please consider this, or let someone who knows how to use the vB plug-in API set this up.

If this only works for new users and new users' emails aren't set up properly, I'm going to have to uninstall this.

Good idea for an add-on, but, unfortunately, several problems still remain...

Originally Posted by smnet

ok. I think this is going to be a recurring request. Until this is sorted I will have to uninstall the application.

Currently, there is no way to associate EXISTING MEMBERS with a facebook account - according to the mod description on .org it seems as though it should be possible - but it's not.

Steps to reproduce:-
1. Logout
2. Sign in with facebook connect
3. Dont choose a nickname, instead click on the existing user
4. Login to your board
5. We can now assume the vb account is facebook connected - NO ITS NOT

Maybe this is only a bug / problem on my board.

Can anyone confirm or deny the above to be true for them?

@Uninstalled until resolved

Originally Posted by smnet

Sllik,

Regarding the issue i'm having with existing users logging in via facebook.... quite simply, its not working on my board.

At the point where you enter your vbulletin user / pass to associate with facebook I can see that the fbuid is set as a hidden field in the fblogin.php page and posted over to the standard login page with the form.... This is fine, but I am having great difficultly pinning down where in the code this value is requested back in. I cant see anywhere in a plugin or file where POST is checked for this value... If I can find that then I can resume tracing this bug down.

It may be down to other mods i have installed, but i'd really really like this resolved. can you help?

Originally Posted by GetGamer.com

I'm still having two BIG problems that if I can't find an answer to, I will have to uninstall this mod.

First, Connect with Facebook is working fine for NEW users, but when an existing forum user tries to use it, the connection is never made. They login to the forums, but there is no connection to their Facebook account. (And yes, they are using the "Connect with Facebook" button, logging into Facebook, then clicking the "Use existing account" link as they are supposed to.

I've attached a screenshot that shows a NEW user is properly receiving the Facebook notifications. Existing users have tried and tested every which way, but their existing forum account never gets connected with their Facebook account.

The second problem is (I think) a minor issue. The window (IFRAME?) that contains the Facebook login screen that pops up when someone clicks the Connect with Facebook button is not "tall" enough to reveal the "Connect" and "Cancel" buttons. How can I make this window a little bigger?

I've also attached a screenshot of that just to show what I mean.

If I can resolve these two problems, I will gladly endorse, use and contribute to this mod. If I can't, I'll have to uninstall.

[mykkal]

I have the same issue...

[frogster]

Not sure if this has happened to anyone or if anyone has noticed but all of the problems I had with this mod (iframe too small & not connecting existing users with FB) have automatically been resolved.

The only problem I still seem to have is that a user can only have one item posted on their FB wall per day and it's the last item they have posted in the forum whether it's a new login/new thread/reply. Does this happen to anyone else or not...thanks.

[frogster]

Originally Posted by intelgio2

There seems to be a conflict between this mod and the Social bookmarking navbar mod (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...ight=sharethis)... has anyone found a workaround for this?

The navbar mod creates its own Navbar template. i have attenpted to add the code to that file and have failed miserably :erm:

I am in no way a pro as I just started this entire vBulletin thing BUT what I did was add the FB button code to the navbar_additions mod this mod created. Let me know if you need further explanation.

[nashvilleparks]

I'm just getting started with VB and this is only my second mod so I'm hoping this is just a dumb newbie problem and someone will know the answer. I've read every post in this thread and have tried everything I could think of without any luck.

I'm stuck on step 5. When I click "FB Connect Options > News-Feed Templates" I get this:

"Warning: fopen(http://api.facebook.com/restserver.php) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Connection timed out in [path]/includes/facebook/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php on line 2487"

If I click on Register Default Templates underneath the Registered News-Feed Templates box, that just times out too.

I've reloaded all files, reinstalled the whole mod, deleted my FB application and tried it different ways, and it shouldn't be my PHP (PHP Version 5.2.6-1+lenny2). It seems like it has to be something with FB that I'm doing wrong (I don't know anything about FB and only signed up for an account to do this). If anyone has any ideas PLEASE let me know. Thanks!

[JBMoney]

Any chance this would run on PHP Version 4.4.5?

[mykkal]

Originally Posted by JBMoney

Any chance this would run on PHP Version 4.4.5?

nope. you'll have to upgrade.

[nMIK-3]

Originally Posted by turbosatan

I have the problem where the iframe is not tall enough also.

Can anyone advise a way to change this?

EDIT
ok so i found http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/...sizable_IFrame this page. on the canvas page of the facebook app setup you can specify a resizeable iframe instead of a "Smartsize"

There are some details on this page on how to modify some of the code to make itr fit the content size.

But i am no coder. Can anyone who knows their way around code take a look and see if there is a simple one liner that can change this.

I fix this, by uploading the whole package again and import the XML file.
But now I am getting an error after I create a post.

I am not getting the publish to facebook question... instead I am getting a faceboook error

Application response error

Invalid template bundle id specified: XXXXXXXXXX. You can see this because you are one of the developers of the app.

Any idea how to correct this? I reset the News-Feed Templates but it didn't fix it.

[mikeB]

does anyone have this working with the "new" facebook layout launched yesterday? mt fb connect now shoots me an error when I hit publish

[smnet]

This mod is dead. Everyone who has installed it is basically screwed because you cannot uninstall it otherwise your members who signed up via facebook wont be able to login.

The author released this mod with bugs, fixed a few... then abandoned it.

What's worse is that this is in the running for mod of the month - I cant believe it. I voted it 'terrible'.

For anyone who disagrees, I would suggest you read this thread properly and then ask yourself if this thread deserves a 'supported' flag. This is the least supported mod I've ever seen.

I'm not being ungrateful - I know releasing mods takes hard work.... but releasing them is easy - supporting them harder. I see no point in releasing a mod, not patching the holes and leaving everyone who has installed it 'trapped' - this sucks.

/rant