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.

[TimberFloorAu]

Originally Posted by jlew24asu

ah ok. thanks for the explanation.

can I ask you a question? how do users login through this facebook app, use their same user name, and keep all the same stats?

Essentially from what I gather.

User logs out of your forum.

Logs into Facebook, then can fire up the forum, and on logging in will be asked if they want to sync with facebook.. kinda weird explanation, but AFAIK thats how it integrates.

They have the option, as an existing user, to fire up the forum under their existing username and pass.

Now that they have facebook & your forum in sync, when a post or message is sent via the forum it displays in their facebook profile, etc.

The bonus is that users on facebook, who are friends of your member as a facebook user, then have the opportunity to join your forum, and vice versa.

As I have never used facebook, im not sure how the protocol works with permissions and privacy, but am sure that its all good.

I do have some basic function, queries, such as "ignoring a user on facebook" does this transfer to your forum too?

Anyhoo.. will await a fix for the new-user login stuff from the coder.



Reply to the guy: clear IE files? pmsl... im not sure what use that has for preventing database crash due to inadequate login bridge

[TimberFloorAu]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

Seems to be working on my board. The home page no redirects to forum home upon login (I previous had to set up a redirect to make that happen). So far so good.

How are you finding , new users signing in to your forum, via facebook. and bypassing signup process for VB ?

That is where we are failing

[Digital Jedi]

I only have one mandatory signup requirement and that's a custom field, so they'll be prompted to fill that in as soon as they log in.

Do you have birthdays required in your vB Options? If so, they will be required to fill that in the next time they try to edit their profile.

[yinyang]

i give up. anyone want to check for me on their end? http://www.sirenssociety.com.

i was the second or third person to install this when sllik first published it, and it worked. but ever since he bridged it for existing users, i get nothing. nada. zilch.

i've cleared my history and cache. whenever i click on the facebookconnect, nothing happens. both in IE and FF.

i've also uninstalled it and reverted the templates. and i reinstalled it. twice.

any clues?

[soulface]

Originally Posted by yinyang

i give up. anyone want to check for me on their end? http://www.sirenssociety.com.

i was the second or third person to install this when sllik first published it, and it worked. but ever since he bridged it for existing users, i get nothing. nada. zilch.

i've cleared my history and cache. whenever i click on the facebookconnect, nothing happens. both in IE and FF.

i've also uninstalled it and reverted the templates. and i reinstalled it. twice.

any clues?

Open up your forum for guest so they can view the forumhome, then try to login. then standard login page may be missing the footer code.

[johnxarce]

wow thanks for this i love this mod

[stamos2003]

with the new version I put (1.1.3) it does not hang anymore at the login redirect page,
neither it logs me in though.
it goes until the login redirector and afterwards i am still not logged in :-|

[tpearl5]

Is anyone else noticing that they're getting notifications in facebook for every new post whether they're subscribed to it or not?

[jlew24asu]

Originally Posted by tpearl5

Is anyone else noticing that they're getting notifications in facebook for every new post whether they're subscribed to it or not?

maybe turn this off?

New Own Thread Reply Notification
Send a Facebook notification to the user when there is a new reply to own thread?

[aggiefan]

also something else that was brought up as a concern is how does this work when you do a mass email? we only send out one or maybe 2 mass emails a year but we would like to be able to still do that and not sure how facebook would like that since this is storing the facebook proxy email.

also related to my above feature suggestion.... when/if you get the personal data part working i would also like to see some sort of cron job setup where it resyncs the data every so often just because in general people update their facebook info more than any forum system ive ever seen and it would be nice to pull that data down when its updated.