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.

[Blacura]

you dont need to do any of that. follow the directions and it should work fine

[wolfstream]

Originally Posted by kud0gfx

Can I use it ONLY for already registered users? i know that if a guest connects is registered, but i've a modified register.php, with email marketing and all that crap... so... what would happen with that?

Not without a bit of custom modification.

Originally Posted by Blacura

you dont need to do any of that. follow the directions and it should work fine

What they're referring to is understandable. Basically they wants to run their forum a specific way (ie: custom registration with email marketing), so users should have to signup before accessing the registration integration. Not every forum is going to be setup 100% the same, and that's a very, very good thing, trust me.


I know it's confusing, but actually, doing things that way would eliminate all problems of future integration issues (ie: facebook suddenly changes something, so bam, users registered through facebook are screwed). This way, only the username is linked w/ facebook.

[GrossKopf]

I'm installing this but I'm a little confused. What goes in these fields?

First Login Feed Template ID
New Reply Feed Template ID
New Thread Feed Template ID

[wolfstream]

Originally Posted by GrossKopf

I'm installing this but I'm a little confused. What goes in these fields?

First Login Feed Template ID
New Reply Feed Template ID
New Thread Feed Template ID

The instructions tell you all about what to do there. Follow step 5

[GrossKopf]

Originally Posted by wolfstream

The instructions tell you all about what to do there. Follow step 5

All Step 5 says is:

"Step 5:

Go to FB Connect Options > News-Feed Templates and register default templates. Then Go to FB Connect Options > Settings and save your settings (even if you don't change anything)."

So, I don't put anything in there? I don't know what "default templates" are.

Also, I have another problem. At this part of the instructions:

Template: navbar

Find:
<!-- / login form -->

Insert After:
<!-- fbconnect -->
<center>
<span class="fbconnect" style="height:21px">
<img src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/images/loaders/indicator_white_small.gif" alt="Connect with Facebook" />
</span>
</center>
<!-- / fbconnect -->

I don't have "<!-- / login form -->" in navbar of the template I'm modding.

[wolfstream]

The instructions give you the information you need to do things, and if you follow the instructions, it will work.

As far as the custom template modification, you're on your own there. You should understand how to edit and modify a template, it's pretty basic. If you don't, then you shouldn't install this mod by yourself, as it's not a "basic" mod.

[Ross L]

Originally Posted by GrossKopf

Also, I have another problem. At this part of the instructions:



I don't have "<!-- / login form -->" in navbar of the template I'm modding.

If you haven't got <!--/ login form-->, look for

		<input type="hidden" name="s" value="$session[sessionhash]" />
		<input type="hidden" name="securitytoken" value="$bbuserinfo[securitytoken]" />
		<input type="hidden" name="do" value="login" />
		<input type="hidden" name="vb_login_md5password" />
		<input type="hidden" name="vb_login_md5password_utf" />
		</form>

and add the FB code below that.

[nathangjj]

I have this is installed and it's working perfectly in Firefox but in Internet Explorer every page returns this Flash error:

SecurityError: Error #2060: Security sandbox violation: ExternalInterface caller http://static.ak.connect.facebook.com/swf/XdComm.swf cannot access http://www.mysiteurl.com/.
	at flash.external::ExternalInterface$/flash.external:ExternalInterface::_initJS()
	at flash.external::ExternalInterface$/addCallback()
	at XdComm$iinit()

Anyone got any ideas what's wrong?

[pericolosogr]

Originally Posted by kud0gfx

Can I use it ONLY for already registered users? i know that if a guest connects is registered, but i've a modified register.php, with email marketing and all that crap... so... what would happen with that?

That would be ideal, cause already registered users with valid email adresses can get these important forum notifications in facebook!
BUT, somebody has to do it

[stryka]

No disrespect to the original coder cuz he helped me out in the past but it looks like he is juss to busy .... and i guess doing any type of FBOOK bridge is scary enough cuz of the FREE support that is required on the forums...

Anyhow... much thanks to WOLFSTREAM... he logged into to my site, diagnosed the problem, and fixed it right away... definietly PM him if you want him to fix your probs...

Otherwise... the latest version has no probs... 99% of the time it is user error during installation/setup... if you already spent more than 3hrs reimplementing or debugging... juss get WOLFSTREAM involved... my philosophy is "TIME IS MONEY"... i'd rather get someone else to do it in 1hr versus me struggling with it for 3hrs when i can be doing something else on my site...

Originally Posted by wolfstream

Well, that's odd.

Since the author has pretty much abandoned this app, I will provide what help I can to those that need it. If you need help installing it, contact me via PM and I'll try to work something out with you.

I don't want to step on anyone toes here, so if the author comes back in and says he'll handle installs, I will gladly let him do so.

Blacura, if you want to have me take a look @ this for you, drop me a PM.

This app does work, and you've got to do a bit of configuration to it, but if it's more complicated, let me know