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.

[sensimilla]

Originally Posted by sllik

I think you need to add the current directory (.) to your php include path.

Hmmm could you explain ?

[dxlwebs]

mine wouldnt come up because i did

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
// Main vBulletin Javascript Initialization
vBulletin_init();
//-->
<!-- fbconnect -->
$fbconnect_init
<!-- / fbconnect -->
</script>

when it should have been

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
// Main vBulletin Javascript Initialization
vBulletin_init();
//-->
</script>
<!-- fbconnect -->
$fbconnect_init
<!-- / fbconnect -->

just check to make sure you havent done the same as i did!



p.s. does any one have a idea on why mine is now working i posted a little bit back thnx

[burlesque]

Originally Posted by dxlwebs

just check to make sure you havent done the same as i did!

Nope - everything is correct and looking how it should do. I'm totally baffled by this one!

[music legend]

im having the same problem

when i click the button nothing happens

[x YNWA x]

anyone know why but the text on mine is in another language, think its spanish? this is above the username and password when u click on facebook connect any ideas how to change?

[bojan.vasiljev]

burlesque i am getting the same thing

did u solve it?

[burlesque]

Originally Posted by bojan.vasiljev

burlesque i am getting the same thing, did u solve it?

I'm afraid not - and I have drunk so much coffee whilst trying to get it working that I have given myself heart palpitations.

I also managed to type the above sentence in record time!
:erm:

[bojan.vasiljev]

I have seen it in action once before and that is why I am so confused.

Maybe music_legend did solve it????

[verino]

Originally Posted by dxlwebs

ok i fixed that problem it was a human mistake ie ME lol

also i get this as well in the register templates part

Warning: fopen(http://api.facebook.com/restserver.php) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! in [path]/includes/facebook/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php on line 2487

this was the same error i had before.

- first if you're the administrator of your forum, go to your admin panel, maintenance, and view php info.
- Look for the Configuration PHP Core, and check whether : allow_url_fopen is : on, and same goes for : allow_url_include. Both should be "on" .

Then try to re-register the default templates

[dxlwebs]

thanks for your reply i have done the changes and nowi get this error

This error (HTTP 500 Internal Server Error) means that the website you are visiting had a server problem which prevented the webpage from displaying.

any ideas what it does that