Integration with vBulletin - YAFB - Yay! Another Facebook Bridge

This is not just a "port" for vBulletin 4 of this modification, this is the next version of the modification which support both vBulletin 4 and vBulletin 3 family

IMPORTANT: FILE ISSUES HERE: http://code.google.com/p/vbulletinfacebook/issues/list (require a Google Account)

Yay! Another Facebook Bridge 3.3.2
Tested to work with vBulletin 3.7.x and 3.8.x (3.6.x requires some manual edit, contact me for detail instruction)
Tested to work with vBulletin 4.0 (use different .xml import file)
Please note: this product requires PHP5. If you get weird error messages, please check if you PHP version is still 4 (which is very old and you should change to PHP5 as soon as possible). Also, MySQL 5 is strongly recommended

[WHAT IS IT?]
There are many vBulletin - Facebook bridge out there but installing is always the problem for most of forum owner. So I decided to build this product from scratch and provide you the ability to install this Facebook Bridge into your forum in 10 minutes. The detail install instruction can be found below (under the Feature section). A few technical notes: This product uses Facebook Connect to maintance connection between vBulletin forums and complicated (and awesome) Facebook servers. All most everything is automatically done by the script, even the Administrators don't need to do any manual editing (yeah, I'm talking about manual templates editing, you WON'T need to edit templates each time you implement a new style). Once again, most of everything is options which can be enabled/disabled via AdminCP or UserCP interface. All possible type of caching is use to improve performance and reduce heavy PHP load on server side or javascript load on client side. Well, it's quite a long paragraph for introducing. Let's make it work!

[SEE IT IN ACTION]
Screencast:
1. Installation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ComjeipReE4
2. Connecting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7m85O_iX70
3. Posting and Notifications: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBwwiffLvJ8
Demo board:
vBulletin 3.8: http://daohoangson.com/vb38
vBulletin 4: http://daohoangson.com/vb40
Authentication Username: demo. Password: demo.

[MAIN FEATURE]
*** Damn easy to install!
1. Loaded with long list of actions/notifications: posting thread, posting reply, rating thread, sending pm, sending visitor message, uploading image (avatar/profile picture), uploading pictures, comment on pictures. This list are designed to be expandable easily later by me or other people who loves to develope this product (well, if you do, contact me right now!)
2. Ability to quick register with Facebook credential but Administrator can disable this function via AdminCP. Facebook proxied email addresses are handled completely and vBulletin can send email without any problems (of course, the member must grant the Email extend permission). There is a setting in AdminCP to disallow Facebook proxied email addresses also for boards that need email explicitly
3. Ability to auto login with Facebook session (Administrator can turn this on or off in AdminCP and members can enable or disable this feature on their accounts either)
4. Other abilities: Display a profile block on vBulletin member page. Display a wall tab/box on Facebook profile page. Synchronize avatar from Facebook.
5. [AdminCP] Administrator can "edit" template bundle easily. Actually the old template will be deactivated, the new template will be registered and then all action associated with the old template with be updated with the new template bundle id. Oops, why you need to care about all of it? I did it for you already! Just go the the editing page and click Edit. Yay! All done
6. [AdminCP] Staffs can manage connected users and see basic information about them (including granted permissions)
7. [AdminCP] Administrator can decide to: migrate connected users from other products to YAFB, restrict private forums from being posted to Facebook, view detail log of YAFB in action, send notifications to connected users
*. [Experimental] I have added a fun feature that generate the Fans List, the photo will be posted to new thread with friend tagged (if available). The main purpose of this bonus feature is to demostrate the ability of the bridge. If you have an idea, contact me and I will implement it if I can
*. [Experimental] Friend Inviting functionality is added. Access from UserCP > Facebook Bridge > Invite Friends

[CHANGE LOG]
Version 3.3.2 (released on Jun 10, 2010): Register On-the-fly issue with vBulletin 3.8.4 fixed
Version 3.3.1 (released on Jun 08, 2010): Bug fixes and Migration for vBulletin 4.0.3
Version 3.3 (released on Apr 06, 2010): Auto login related features added. User experience reached a new higher level!

[NEW INSTALLATION]
*. Upload all files/folders in folder "upload" into your forum root (Please upload before importing product)
1. Import Product:
1.1. Go to AdminCP
1.2. Plugins & Products ~> Manage Products ~> Add/Import Product:
1.2.1. Browse to the .xml file (use product-yafb.xml for vBulletin 3 and product-yafb_vb4.xml for vBulletin 4)
1.2.2. Click Import

2. Fill the settings:
2.1. Go to AdminCP
2.2. vBulletin Options ~> vBulletin Options ~> Yay! Another Facebook Bridge
2.2. Create a Facebook Application if you haven't had one for your forum. Refer to the Creating Facebook Application below if you don't know how to do it
2.3. Fill the API key and Secret into the approriate fields. You can leave the Template fields untouch (the will be filled automatically). If you want to use the Account Reclamation feature, please place http://domain.com/forums/register.php?do=fbb_reclaim into Account Reclamation URL field. With other fields, it's your decision to made
2.4. Click Save and you are done!

2.* Creating Facebook Application:
2.*.1. Go to Facebook Developer > Create Application page http://www.facebook.com/developers/createapp.php (login if you didn't)
2.*.2. Enter the Application Name. Suggestion: Put your forum name here. Don't forget to tick the Agree radiobox and then click Save Changes
2.*.3. Now you can get your API Key and Secret (that are needed in step 2.3)
2.*.4. And go to the Connect tab, fill your forum url into Connect URL, fill your domain into Base Domain.
2.*.5. You are done with required information. But you can go through other tab and enter more detail about your forum, your application. I suggest putting a nice icon, banner into it. Happy customizing!

[UPGRADING]
Just upload overwrite files/folders then reimport the xml file. Do not forget to check "Yes" under "Allow Overwrite" to upgrade

[CONFLICT]
Since this product interfere with the registration procedure, I have found some other plugins/products that conficts with this product. Below is the full list of known confict and action taken to resolve the issue
No Spam (Human Verification): Temporary disabled during Facebook registration
vMail (Email Verification): Temporary disabled during Facebook registration

[OTHER PLUGINS/PRODUCTS]
I have developed an easy to use options/permissions system that allow other plugins/products to add it's actions into this bridge and let the forum members experience a whole new era of connections. I did a small demostration with my kBank System (which is a money system with award/thank functionality and a useful hiding feature) and it runs pretty well. If you are interested in testing kBank in action with YAFB, contact me. If you are a developer who wants to integrate your plugins/products with this Bridge, contact me either! You are all welcome
*Also available: Publishing Blog (vBBlog) to Facebook [New! Updated on Jan 10th, 2010]


[KNOWN ISSUES]
FILE HERE: http://code.google.com/p/vbulletinfacebook/issues/list (require a Google Account)

[delmarva]

I now have two "Connect with Facebook" links in navbar...

Otherwise, very nice job! Much improved... :up:

[archet1337]

First of all, thank a lot for sharing this mod. It is absolutely brilliant!

I'm having some problems with the share button in postbit.

It looks like this:



How do I get rid of the dark bacround around the button / text?

I tried to edit fbb_vb4_postbit_controls but that didn't have any effect at all.

Any pointers on where / what to edit would be much appreciated.

I'm running vB 4.0.2 PL4 if it matters.

[shaun2222]

Can you answer these questions for me please?

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=239847

[NickyNet]

Originally Posted by mrpaint

Big news today: version 3.3 is out!

Everyone who is running YAFB should upgrade this version right away since it has a killer feature, sorry, 2 killer features:

1. User doesn't have to go to facebook.php anymore (of course, in a few situations, they will have to as it's necessary)
2. User who doesn't connected and registered can have their new account with 1 click! New account will be registered "on-the-fly" with pattern predefined in AdminCP

Install the new version and go straight to AdminCP, Settings page to check them out right now. The 2 new settings are: "Activate on System Wide" (for 1st feature) and "Auto Register On-the-fly" (for 2nd feature). Imagine when you enable both these 2 features, it will really become a seamless user experience!

hi, very very nice!
worked like a charm! Thank you for good job!

but only one question:
what will happend if there are [name]_[lname]
same name and lname on facebook?

[Wakey]

Originally Posted by Bacon Butty

I'm been tweaking my template so this Facebook bridge is more prominent as I think it's kinda disguised, as epitimised by members replying to this thread wondering where the login is once installed...

Anyway, I've stuck the link in the top like so;

Any chance you can share your template edit to set it up like that?

[Bacon Butty]

Originally Posted by playSocial

Any chance you can share your template edit to set it up like that?

It's a simple template edit. The new update has kinda messed it up though as it takes it to the 'connect with facebook' page rather than prompting the login box. Once someone answers the below I'll publish it

Does anyone know how I can alter a simple link like this;



To bring up this on click;



Also, can anyone explain what "Auto Register On-the-fly" is? I dont understand the English or explanation in the admincp

[mrpaint]

Originally Posted by NickyNet

hi, very very nice!
worked like a charm! Thank you for good job!

but only one question:
what will happend if there are [name]_[lname]
same name and lname on facebook?

I didn't get your point?
Anyway, if no good username is found (registered already or something), user will have to register by his/herself

Originally Posted by Bacon Butty

It's a simple template edit. The new update has kinda messed it up though as it takes it to the 'connect with facebook' page rather than prompting the login box. Once someone answers the below I'll publish it

Does anyone know how I can alter a simple link like this;



To bring up this on click;



Also, can any explain what "Auto Register On-the-fly" is? I dont understand the English or explanation in the admincp

It's hard to explain. You should take a look at a template named "fbb_vb4_navbar_button"

[Bacon Butty]

Thanks mrpaint, appreciated good sir

[mrpaint]

In case you want to add the "Connect with Facebook" button up to the top, create new plugin for parse_template and use this code

PHP Code:

if ($vbulletin->fbb['runtime']['navbar_button_needed'] AND $vbulletin->fbb['runtime']['vb4']) {
    $fbb_navbar_button = vB_Template::create('fbb_vb4_navbar_button')->render();
    $search = 'if ($show[\'registerbutton\']) {';
    $vbulletin->templatecache['header'] = str_replace(
        $search
        ,$search . '$final_rendered .= "' . addslashes($fbb_navbar_button) . '";'
        ,$vbulletin->templatecache['header']
    );
} 


*Note: If you are not sure that I'm talking about, it's highly recommend that you shouldn't follow this instruction. The feature will be added in next version of YAFB

[CoZmicShReddeR]

Hey mrpaint I had to revert back to 3.22 All the info in the top right corner vanished so did the navbar links...

I tried disabling every addon and still had the issue... I switched styles and still same...

I am using VB Version 4.02 PL4 CMS