Version: 2.0.5, by sllik
Developer Last Online: Dec 2011
Category: Integration with vBulletin -
Version: 3.7.x
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Released: 12-09-2008
Last Update: 03-23-2009
Installs: 499
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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:
Code:
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.
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ie - the mod works fine for 'www.mydomain.com' but if you access from 'mydomain.com' it doesn't work as the callback url is configured as 'www'mydomain.com'
I could only see one place in Facebook to enter the callback url, so how is this fixed?!
The facebook documentation does suggest that you use the domain without the www. on as your callback address. In effect the www is a subdomain and to spam multiple subdomains you have to supply the root domain only
"New (IEN) Thread Reply Notification
Send a Facebook notification to the user when there is a new reply to a thread that the user is subscribed to with instant email notification?"
and
"New Subscribed Thread Reply Notification
Send a Facebook notification to the user when there is a new reply to a thread that the user is subscribed to?"
seems to stop members from getting a notification on every reply.
Either option doesn't appear to be doing what is advertised as the user should only get a notification to subscribed threads, right?
> what is the best method to keep our new Facebook registered users informed? Should we now just send a PM so they get notified on their Facebook
> I have users joining but not updating with actual email addresses...
Here is a request... can you AUTOMATICALLY make them join a FACEBOOK group or PAGE? upon registration??
> what is the best method to keep our new Facebook registered users informed? Should we now just send a PM so they get notified on their Facebook
> I have users joining but not updating with actual email addresses...
Here is a request... can you AUTOMATICALLY make them join a FACEBOOK group or PAGE? upon registration??
Yeah I think a PM would be the best way to go. Unfortunately there is no way for the users to automatically join a group or a page.
As Facebook users don't have a password how can I make so these users if made into moderator they can login to the mod panel with facebook connect?
I don't know if its a good idea for moderators to be facebook users. The best thing to do now is to set the moderator passwords and tell them to login through the vbulletin login.
I upgraded to 1.1.3 and now i am unable to see any notifications for posts or private msgs... any clues as to what i shud look for?
these were working in 1.1.2... and i did the overwrite option when i upgraded
Same here, and I'm getting JS errors in IE7. JS seems to work in Firefox, but I have a YouTube video on the homepage that doesn't play in IE7- but does in Firefox, and I suspect this hack is the reason. There is also a pagepeel ad in JS that works in Firefox, but not in IE7.
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12-18-2008, 03:02 PM
