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.

[TomJames]

My issue is that after I input a desired username it asks if I want to publish to my wall. I click no. Then it just goes to a blank page (fblogin.php), if I try to use it again it just asks for the desired username again.

No way to get past that.

[wolfstream]

Seems something is missing there. Are you using the latest version? Have you double checked everything is setup correctly? See my post a few posts back about what to check.

I was having a problem myself with the skip/publish stuff and a fresh update took care of that immediately.

[nascartr]

I can attest that everything works fine http://diecastcrazy.com/community/forums.php but you have to follow the template edits and instructions exactly as they are written. I am using the 3.7 version on my 3.8 board though because the latest update for it was about a week newer than this release.

[wolfstream]

I'm using 3.8 myself, and it works dandy. Site is in my sig, at least the one that I'm making public. I have another site running it that's just a fansite.

[Ricsca]

Originally Posted by pericolosogr

when somebody logins, there is a new user created but in his mail field there is something of this form : apps+2312391283902472109482309218@proxymail.facebo ok.com
What do i have to change so that the proper mail is registered?

What do you mean that all these users coming from facebook connect are not registred in the database? i see them, properly, with id, username, details etc
You mean that if someday facebook stops working they wont be able to connect to my forums (but they do have username and password)

Very interest...

[ubcforums]

best mod !! excellent job !

[Mr. Brian]

Originally Posted by cngrock

Hi

When data mapping I get this show, and it also shows when loading the posts:

query_first(" SELECT fbuid FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "fbuser WHERE userid = " . $userid . " LIMIT 1 "); return intval($user['fbuid']); } function fetch_fbuser_info($query) { require_once(DIR . '/includes/facebook/facebook.php'); global $vbulletin, $db; $fbusers = $db->query_read($query); $fbuids = ""; $vbuids = array(); while ($fbuser = $db->fetch_array($fbusers)) { if ($fbuser['fbuid']) { $fbuids .= $fbuser['fbuid'] . ","; $vbuids[] = $fbuser['userid']; } } $fbuids = rtrim($fbuids, ','); $fbuserinfo = $vbulletin->session->vars['fbuserinfo']; if ($vbulletin->facebook == null) $vbulletin->facebook = new Facebook($vbulletin->options['fbconnect_apikey'], $vbulletin->options['fbconnect_secret']); try { $fbuser = $vbulletin->facebook->api_client->users_getInfo($fbuids, 'name, first_name, last_name, affiliations, pic, pic_small, pic_square'); for ($i = 0; $i < count($fbuser); $i++) $fbuserinfo[$vbuids[$i]] = $fbuser[$i]; $vbulletin->session->set('fbuserinfo', $fbuserinfo); } catch(FacebookRestClientException $ex) { } //print_r($vbulletin->session->vars['fbuserinfo']); } function set_fb_data(&$target, $userid = '', $profilefield = false) { require_once(DIR . '/includes/facebook/facebook.php'); global $vbulletin, $db, $show, $vbphrase, $fb_field_map, $avatarurl; if ($userid) $target['userid'] = $userid; if ($vbulletin->options['fbconnect_importdata'] && $target['userid'] != '') { $fbuserinfo = $vbulletin->session->vars['fbuserinfo']; if (!is_array($fbuserinfo[$target['userid']])) { $fbuid = get_fb_uid($target['userid']); if ($fbuid) { if ($vbulletin->facebook == null) $vbulletin->facebook = new Facebook($vbulletin->options['fbconnect_apikey'], $vbulletin->options['fbconnect_secret']); try { $fbuser = $vbulletin->facebook->api_client->users_getInfo($fbuid, 'name, first_name, last_name, affiliations, pic, pic_small, pic_square'); $fbuserinfo[$target['userid']] = $fbuser[0]; $vbulletin->session->set('fbuserinfo', $fbuserinfo); } catch(FacebookRestClientException $ex) { } } } if (is_array($fbuserinfo[$target['userid']])) { if (!is_array($fb_field_map)) { $fb_field_map = array(); $profile_fields = $db->query_read(" SELECT * FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "fbdatamap "); while ($field = $db->fetch_array($profile_fields)) { $fb_field_map[$field['vbfield']] = $field['fbfield']; } } $not_profile_field = array('avatarurl', 'profilepicurl'); foreach ($fb_field_map as $vbfield => $fbfield) { if ($profilefield && $target['value'] && $target['value'] != $vbphrase['n_a']) continue; if ($target[$vbfield] && pathinfo($target[$vbfield], PATHINFO_BASENAME) != 'unknown.gif') continue; if ($fbfield == 'affiliations') { if (is_array($fbuserinfo[$target['userid']][$fbfield])) { foreach ($fbuserinfo[$target['userid']][$fbfield] as $network) { if ($network['type'] == 'region') { $fbuserinfo[$target['userid']][$fbfield] = $network['name']; break; } } } } if ($profilefield) { if ($vbfield == ('field' . $target['profilefieldid'])) { $target['value'] = $fbuserinfo[$target['userid']][$fbfield]; break; } } else $target[$vbfield] = $fbuserinfo[$target['userid']][$fbfield]; } if ($target['avatarurl']) { $avatarurl = $target['avatarurl']; $show['avatar'] = true; } } } } function print_datamap_row($vbdata, $fbdata, $vbselected = "", $fbselected = "") { global $vbphrase; echo ' '; if ($vbselected) echo '[ '.$vbphrase['delete'].' ]'; echo ' '; }


Any ideas on how to fix.

when I disable the facebook connect - the forums work fine.

Cheers

Are u running your forum on sub domain?

[arcadian_girl]

Originally Posted by wolfstream

This mod runs fine, ignore those that balk about "Facebook has changed things", obviously they haven't used it.

I have this mod installed on two separate forums, and have yet to have an issue with things.

Remember, just because the author hasn't "updated the mod" in a while doesn't mean they've abandoned it. I mean, really, we DO have lives you know.

It's not just the lack of udpate, it's other issues mentioned in this thread as well.

Btw, you've got a really shitty attitude.

[wolfstream]

Originally Posted by ubcforums

best mod !! excellent job !

I wouldn't classify it as the "best mod", but the author did do a good job when putting this together

Originally Posted by arcadian_girl

It's not just the lack of udpate, it's other issues mentioned in this thread as well.

The "other issues" in this thread that have been mentioned have been a result of improper installations. Many, many people have said "this works", and it does, in fact work.

Originally Posted by arcadian_girl

Btw, you've got a really shitty attitude.

Your personal opinion, and that's fine, but it's not the actual truth.
I'm not the developer of this mod, I'm not going to spend my time (for free) telling people how they installed this mod incorrectly, or how they did something wrong. I will help to a degree, but I'm not going to give a step by step tutorial to someone that can't follow the basics to begin with.

If the mod doesn't work, then really, you need to go back, read through the install instructions, verify that everything is done 100% correctly (most importantly, the urls, templates, and the FB identifiers). IF it's all done correctly, then you will have a working application. If NOT, then don't blame the dev, because it's not the dev's fault.

This mod isn't a "simple" mod to install. You actually have to get in there, grasp what you're doing and make template edits yourself (or use a mod to do so). It does, however, work.

[madotds]

Originally Posted by wolfstream

The "other issues" in this thread that have been mentioned have been a result of improper installations. Many, many people have said "this works", and it does, in fact work.

The main issue with this mod for me is the fact that a password is not stored in the database can you confirm if this is because of installation or not?

Cheers