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.

[Dean C]

I'm getting the minimum number of character bugs too. It's something to do with the change needed to this in SHOWTHREAD, newreply and newthread

<form action="newreply.php?do=postreply&amp;t=$threadid" method="post" name="vbform" onsubmit="return qr_prepare_submit(this, $vboptions[postminchars]);" id="qrform">

Where qr_prepare_submit is replaced with fb_qr_prepare_submit

There's some kind of bug in that code Note i'm running 3.7

[Wakey]

Originally Posted by Jheyman

Great Product saved me a ton of time! Quick question, on users logging out of the forums the logout page (cookies cleared) does not have the FBConnect button under teh logon box. Any idea why this might be. I double checked the navbar template and the FB Code appears in both login areas of that template. If you want to see the behavior the URL is www.wdwnewstoday.com/forums

Since the latest version I have had the same on mine

[jlew24asu]

not a huge deal, but I am not getting notifications on Facebook when I reply to a subscribed thread.

[tpearl5]

My users (and me) are still reporting getting notifications for threads they've never subscribed or even posted in.

[jlew24asu]

Originally Posted by tpearl5

My users (and me) are still reporting getting notifications for threads they've never subscribed or even posted in.

funny how I have the complete opposite problem but I guess I would rather have mine then yours. getting those notifications must be annoying

edit:
oops nevermind. I just got a notification for someone replying to a thread that I started, but I am not subscribed to, even though I have this selected as no in admin cp

New Own Thread Reply Notification
Send a Facebook notification to the user when there is a new reply to own thread?

Yes No

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by jlew24asu

has anyone added the connect with facebook link on their CMPS page??

Yes: www.cogonline.net. The vBa support was added on a previous update.

[TriMe]

Mapping Feature Request: Can you please add one for their Facebook profile ID? I use this hack and it would be great to map it to the hacks required custom user profile field.

Great work and thanks!

[TriMe]

Originally Posted by Dean C

I'm getting the minimum number of character bugs too. It's something to do with the change needed to this in SHOWTHREAD, newreply and newthread

<form action="newreply.php?do=postreply&amp;t=$threadid" method="post" name="vbform" onsubmit="return qr_prepare_submit(this, $vboptions[postminchars]);" id="qrform">

Where qr_prepare_submit is replaced with fb_qr_prepare_submit

There's some kind of bug in that code Note i'm running 3.7

I'm getting this error after editing the SHOWTREAD template edit:

Warning: preg_replace() [function.preg-replace]: Compilation failed: regular expression is too large at offset 42684 in [path]/includes/adminfunctions_templateedits.php on line 1064

All the threads aren't showing in my forum so I can use this addon until it's fixed. HELP!!

I'm using 3.7.4 and the TMS mod.



UPDATE: I reverted the TMS template and edited the original SHOWTHREAD template. Everything works. I guess the 2 mod's don't mix well together.

[jlew24asu]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

Yes: www.cogonline.net. The vBa support was added on a previous update.

really? I dont see it anywhere. is there install instructions?

[pete_brady]

Originally Posted by jlew24asu

not a huge deal, but I am not getting notifications on Facebook when I reply to a subscribed thread.

Originally Posted by tpearl5

My users (and me) are still reporting getting notifications for threads they've never subscribed or even posted in.

According to my Facebook notifications page, every time I post I seem to be sending notifications out to any of my Facebook friends who have registered on my board with this plugin.

Is this related to the "Post news-feeds to the user's wall on Facebook" setting? I've switched it off and it seems to have stopped happening. hmmm.