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.

[pete_brady]

this might help someone else: I had to clear out my browser's cache after the latest upgrade to get the facebook login image to appear.

[Digital Jedi]

For the record, I was only pointing out where his FaceBook account info was.

[Coop1979]

pete_brady, I can get the image to appear on your site, but when I click it, it doesn't do anything. Might want to take a look at it.

[pete_brady]

Originally Posted by Coop1979

pete_brady, I can get the image to appear on your site, but when I click it, it doesn't do anything. Might want to take a look at it.

thanks, but i think that's as much to do with my .htaccess not redirecting to the www. version as anything else

[jlew24asu]

Originally Posted by pete_brady

thanks, but i think that's as much to do with my .htaccess not redirecting to the www. version as anything else

worked fine for me on firefox

[Coop1979]

Just worked for me, too. Weird.

[pete_brady]

yeah i fixed my .htaccess & updated my sig here

all good.

[sllik]

Originally Posted by playSocial

Anyone having issues with the data mapping for some members, the avatar which is set to the profile image sometimes shows the profile image from someone else

some info won't be available for some users since they can disable their data being available in facebook privacy settings

[slo_chewie]

Can the install instructions be reposted?

[Wakey]

Originally Posted by sllik

some info won't be available for some users since they can disable their data being available in facebook privacy settings

I understand that BUT surely the following shouldnt happen.

Person A has all their data pulled, it shows up correctly in their profile fields and their avatar.

Person B has their data pulled, it shows fine in their profile but it shows Person A's Avatar as their Avatar