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.

[giorgioarmani]

Originally Posted by Calash

Has anybody played with having other activities outside of Thread stuff report back to Facebook yet? I thought I saw a link to some documentation on how to format requests, but I can not seem to find it. I was thinking of stuff like adding pictures, comments on profiles, and for my own use eFiction actions of story posting and reviews.

Wow that would be amazing but I'm already astonished at how much this mod does!

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by jlew24asu

are people having to clear their cookies and cache everytime they log into their board?

I get this almost everytime

The Facebook Connect cross-domain receiver URL (http://sundeviltalk.com/xd_receiver....%220.711%22%7D) must have the application's callback url (http://www.sundeviltalk.com/) as a prefix. You can configure the callback url in the application's settings.





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I just tried going back to your board and logging in again. It logged me right in with no problems from the vBa homepage. I then logged out and back in just in case from your forum home page and I still didn't receive any errors. And I'm still on a the same browser session as when I registered. (Yeah, I know, I should probably restart this thing)

[jlew24asu]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

I just tried going back to your board and logging in again. It logged me right in with no problems from the vBa homepage. I then logged out and back in just in case from your forum home page and I still didn't receive any errors. And I'm still on a the same browser session as when I registered. (Yeah, I know, I should probably restart this thing)

LOL you havn't restarted your browser since originally registering? would you mind restarting your browser and trying again?

[L2V]

Originally Posted by jlew24asu

are people having to clear their cookies and cache everytime they log into their board?

I get this almost everytime

The Facebook Connect cross-domain receiver URL (http://sundeviltalk.com/xd_receiver....%220.711%22%7D) must have the application's callback url (http://www.sundeviltalk.com/) as a prefix. You can configure the callback url in the application's settings.
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One thing I notice is that the cross-domain receiver URL is lacking the www that is specified in the application's callback url... Try to go back to your page but with (or without) the www in there and try again.

One thing I;ve done on my site is to add the following to the start of the htaccess file to 301 redirect any www.domainname.com addresses to a domainname.com address instead.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L]

This is for Apache with mod-rewrite enabled... And, no, sorry... I can't offer help on mod-rewrite if you can't figure it out.

Hope this helps!

[jlew24asu]

Originally Posted by L2V

One thing I notice is that the cross-domain receiver URL is lacking the www that is specified in the application's callback url... Try to go back to your page but with (or without) the www in there and try again.

thanks for the reply. I've been down this road so many times I was forced to just pay for a professional install. I tried pretty much every www http senario out there. since the pro, its been working more often but I'm still getting this error. I really hope me and my users are not forced to clear cookies and cache everytime they try to log in.

Originally Posted by L2V

One thing I;ve done on my site is to add the following to the start of the htaccess file to 301 redirect any www.domainname.com addresses to a domainname.com address instead.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L]

This is for Apache with mod-rewrite enabled... And, no, sorry... I can't offer help on mod-rewrite if you can't figure it out.

Hope this helps!

I don't use htaccess

[ClaytonR]

I have a issues, for some reason my users have the wrong person's picture, it was working fine then this morning it had them all with the profile pic of one of our administrators.

EDIT its only happening with avatars in the posts, their avatars are correct on the memberlist.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by jlew24asu

LOL you havn't restarted your browser since originally registering? would you mind restarting your browser and trying again?

Still no problems. This time I was auto logged in. Logged out again with no problems either.

[jlew24asu]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

Still no problems. This time I was auto logged in. Logged out again with no problems either.

ok thanks for checking.

[Caddyman]

ok i gotta post

GREAT MOD! really i am impressed!

installed!

on a new signup from facebook all is well

i can also hit it, enter fb info on the fb login on my forum then click "use existing username" on the nickname popup and login with a existing account just fine

BUT

when doing that and linking to a existin account i dont get the popups for posts and the fbconnect email settings link in the usercp and all....

anyone know why?

[floggerss]

It is possible that users that have an user in the forum can use their facebook account. Not to register a new one???