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.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by fattony69

I think I got this to work. Do people who are already members get to use this?

Yes, but they have to log out to see the new login options.

[Fronty]

Installed the 2.0.2 version from scrap this morning on my website http://www.yoursiteforums.com

So far so good! Thanks Sllik!

[Ross L]

Excellent plugin! Been using it for a few weeks now flawlessly.

One thing I would like to see in it would be forum permissions. For example: If I posted in a public forum, it would give me the option to post to Facebook but if I posted in a staff forum it wouldn't give me that option. So far I achieved this by using <if> conditions around the code but it would be nice to have the option to change the forums that can use the facebook plugin via the Admin Control Panel.

Many thanks,

Ross

[cfrench]

Another thing I have noticed is when I post with firefox it gives me the option to post it to facebook like it should but if I use ms ie it doesn't give me the option. I have also had reports from a mod when she posts from ie, it will sometimes just sit there and and not do anything. This has not happened to me. I told her to clear out her browser and shut it down and restart it but she said that it still happens. Any suggestions on these issues as well?

[kirkmkiv]

I am also receiving the Message too short error on any thread or reply I make.......

[sllik]

if you get the message too short error please post the forum url so i can take a look at the site!

[hollosch]

Hi,
I get the following database-errors when mapping the data. I turned on the "Import User Data From Facebook" option:

Datenbankfehler in vBulletin 3.8.0 Release Candidate 2:

Invalid SQL:

                                INSERT INTO vb3_fbdatamap
                                (vbfield, fbfield) VALUES ('avatarurl', 'pic')
                                ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE fbfield = 'pic';

MySQL-Fehler  : You have an error in your SQL syntax.  Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE fbfield = 'pic'' at line 3
Fehler-Nr.    : 1064

Datenbankfehler in vBulletin 3.8.0 Release Candidate 2:

Invalid SQL:

                                INSERT INTO vb3_fbdatamap
                                (vbfield, fbfield) VALUES ('field2', 'affiliations')
                                ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE fbfield = 'affiliations';

MySQL-Fehler  : You have an error in your SQL syntax.  Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE fbfield = 'affiliations'' at line 3
Fehler-Nr.    : 1064

What is the problem?

[sllik]

wierd.. what mysql version do you have?

Originally Posted by hollosch

Hi,
I get the following database-errors when mapping the data. I turned on the "Import User Data From Facebook" option:

Datenbankfehler in vBulletin 3.8.0 Release Candidate 2:

Invalid SQL:

                                INSERT INTO vb3_fbdatamap
                                (vbfield, fbfield) VALUES ('avatarurl', 'pic')
                                ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE fbfield = 'pic';

MySQL-Fehler  : You have an error in your SQL syntax.  Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE fbfield = 'pic'' at line 3
Fehler-Nr.    : 1064

Datenbankfehler in vBulletin 3.8.0 Release Candidate 2:

Invalid SQL:

                                INSERT INTO vb3_fbdatamap
                                (vbfield, fbfield) VALUES ('field2', 'affiliations')
                                ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE fbfield = 'affiliations';

MySQL-Fehler  : You have an error in your SQL syntax.  Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE fbfield = 'affiliations'' at line 3
Fehler-Nr.    : 1064

What is the problem?

[hollosch]

PHP 5.2.6
MySQL 4.0.27-standard

[PamelaE]

Hi Sllik,

Any ideas to my issue, its a couple of posts back.

Any help would be appreciated. Its on my test forum <snip>.

Thanks