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.

[wolfstream]

Originally Posted by webgroup

YES, I know the error looks like a corrupted DB and reparing it will fix it, but no.
I have ran repairs in the DB many times, ALL is fine, still I keep getting this error.

Just because you "repair" the db doesn't mean it's going to stay repaired at all. There are a number of reasons that this could be killing the db, but you need to figure out what it is on your own.


This isn't even guaranteed to be related to the mod itself. In fact, based on experience, I'd say it's not, because I've yet to have it show up on any of the numerous installs I've done.

Check your settings, check your mysql and php versions, make sure everything is up to date (MySQL 4 is not up to date), make sure your configurations can handle what you're trying to do.

[GoTTi]

have a slight error. i just installed this mod, so im testing it, i logout then click the connect button and it takes me to the fblogin.php page, then i type in a username, it says its available, then i click next, the fblogin.php page loads, but its a error 500 page. just a blank page. help please. thanks. the error is on IE

[GoTTi]

i tried to login on firefox and get this error:

Fatal error:

• Please complete the required field "Email".

Unable to proceed with save while $errors array is not empty in class vB_DataManager_User in [path]/includes/class_dm.php on line 810

[mykkal]

Looking for a developer familiar with facebook connect. Need some applications developed. PM me for details.

[Stryker412]

If the site owner sets up the application on Facebook, can any of the forum members find out the site owner's FB info if you choose not to use it?

[frogster]

I currently have this facebook connect mod installed on my forum but I just learned about rpxnow. Apparently this does the same thing including the news feed publishing but allows users to register with more than just facebook. Has anyone tried this on their forum???

[dwessell]

Sorry if this question has been asked. I searched through, but didn't see anything..

Can you disallow the login from facebook option, and just use this to allow exisitng users to integrate the forum with their facebook accounts?

Thanks
David

[usearchme]

Hi guys

Ive tryed this mod a few times now, and failed to get it working all the times ive tryed it, and never had problems like this with other mods, I got a terrible list of errors when i logged out an found out some of my forums couldnt be accessed after I had installed this !

Woc

[GoTTi]

so no support for this mod?

[frogster]

Hey guys,

I did a bit more research on Rpx and found it to have the same capabilities as facebook connect (including the publishing to news feeds etc) but with many other more login options as well (myspace, yahoo, google, twitter, etc). I just installed the WP plugin for this and it works great. There is currently no VB plugin but we can ask them to make one here. I have already started the request and all you have to do is go and vote for it so we can get it to the top. Users did the same for drupal and joomla and rpx is now creating a plug in. You can vote (without registering) here

https://rpx.uservoice.com/pages/8895-general

Look for the request titled "Make a vbulletin plugin" and vote.