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.

[stryka]

what do you mean by a dead link?

[bydosangel]

<font color="Red">I mean just a (#) in the link without any popup or any screen...</font>

[christicehurst]

Strange issue after installing. None of the drop down menus now work. Which code would this be affecting?

[Wakey]

Originally Posted by christicehurst

Strange issue after installing. None of the drop down menus now work. Which code would this be affecting?

I had the rep function button and the lightbox image system stop working on mine. The Javascript for it was screwing with the hooks and causing some Ajax features to not work. I just turned lightbox off and then went in and removed the Ajax if statement out of the template so rather than an Ajax popup for rep it was going to the rep page. Mind you if your menus are getting your change will not be as simple

[Digital Jedi]

Often that means that you put the headinclude code in incompletely or put it in the wrong place, splitting another block of code up in the process or even deleting an end tag to another block.

Everyone who's getting errors should really go in and double, triple check all their template edits line by line.

[Benj]

absolutely fantastic, works a charm, may i suggest a feature. importing the users facebook profile pic as forum avatar.

cheers

[basilrath]

Ill ask this again because its been sidetracked.............. log out of facebook............. go to any site who has facebook connect ................you dont need to register you simply become who the hell you like !

Far to easy for multiple registrations simply because registration isnt needed..............

[Digital Jedi]

Where exactly is your question?

Originally Posted by basilrath

Ill ask this again because its been sidetracked.............. log out of facebook............. go to any site who has facebook connect ................you dont need to register you simply become who the hell you like !

You don't need to register? What do you think the application is doing? And how is this different from regular registration?

Far to easy for multiple registrations simply because registration isnt needed..............

You do realize FaceBook requires the same email registration that most forums do?

[stryka]

umm.. this is no different than vbulletin... you can use multiple email addresses... etc... HOWEVER.... atleast you know that a facebook account is a real active person cuz it is less likely that ppl are using multiple facebook accounts...

Like i have said in my other posts... the challenge will be to market to the users with facebook accounts... ppl will not be able to email market facebook accounts... other than via PM... one workaround is to use a vb.org hack that sends a PM to facebook account users to remind them to update email address...

Originally Posted by basilrath

Ill ask this again because its been sidetracked.............. log out of facebook............. go to any site who has facebook connect ................you dont need to register you simply become who the hell you like !

Far to easy for multiple registrations simply because registration isnt needed..............

[BrAinZ]

I installed this, but can't get past the blank # link

Comes up with the FBconnect box, but then just returns to the log in screen. I've checked and rechecked all the code additions, and even reloaded my vb code and database onto a text server, but still won't work.

REALLY want to use the mod, but no idea why it won't work