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.

[WebHostingTrend]

Helllo,

We are having a few issues here - we are using the template "Bingo"

and in the navbar, the code

<!-- / login form -->

Isnt there!

However, looking in the header

This is there

<else />
<form action="login.php?do=login" style="margin:0; padding:0;" method="post" onsubmit="md5hash(vb_login_password, vb_login_md5password, vb_login_md5password_utf, $show[nopasswordempty])">
            <script type="text/javascript" src="clientscript/vbulletin_md5.js?v=$vboptions[simpleversion]"></script>
           <div class="tbox-out">Username <input type="text" class="bginput2" name="vb_login_username" id="label" accesskey="u" tabindex="101" value="$vbphrase[username]" onfocus="if (this.value == '$vbphrase[username]') this.value = '';" /></div>
          <div class="tbox-out">Password <input type="password" class="bginput2" name="vb_login_password" id="navbar_password" tabindex="102" /></div><div style="padding-top:4px;">
           <input type="checkbox" name="cookieuser" value="1" tabindex="103" id="cb_cookieuser_navbar" accesskey="c" /> Remember Me?
           <input name="submit" type="submit" class="button2" accesskey="s" tabindex="104" title="$vbphrase[enter_username_to_login_or_register]" value="" /></div>
            <input type="hidden" name="s" value="$session[sessionhash]" />

            <input type="hidden" name="do" value="login" />
            <input type="hidden" name="vb_login_md5password" />
            <input type="hidden" name="vb_login_md5password_utf" />
          </form></if>
</div>

Ive tried to put the FB Connect login script, in there - but of course, I get the loading bar, spinning around and around.

Suggestions?

[SDonkey]

I did install.

That wasn't too hard. Awesome working!

[WebHostingTrend]

Update: Got it working! Was a little fiddly - but other than that it's working nicely! Well done!

[john graham]

I just wanted to take a second and thank wolfstream. After I paid to have this mod added I didn't hear from anyone for over a week. At that time wolfstream generously offered to install the mod for me at no charge. Before he was able to install it, the original coder had it installed. If I ever need help with any more installations, wolfstream will be the first I ask, and I highly recommend him.

Thanks again for the offer.

[bposner]

Facebook Connect staff:
We've had this on our site, www.stangsofsouthflorida.com/forum for quite sometime and has worked perfectly. Recently users are complaining that the request to post message pops up every time now. There is no option to shut it off, accept just once. Did something change of Facebook... I only work on this forum occasionally as it is pretty basic and runs itself. I have made no updated or changes to the forum software.


Btw the author installed on our system too, great guy to work with, appreciated the help, worth the cost.

[Brandon Sheley]

I added this to another forum and when users post articles on Facebook, it's only linking to the forum that thread is in. Has this happen to others?

thx, great mod!

[wolfstream]

Originally Posted by bmckinley

Installed, working great. But, how do I allow other FB users to use the application I created? In order for it to be "Published" I must have 5 people using it? I have spent way too much time on FB trying to figure out how to "share" an unpublished app.

Post the link to the application on your forums, tell your users to use that . The application link will be something like http://apps.facebook.com/appnamehere

Originally Posted by Morrus

Oh, that's worrying. I paid the $25 by PayPal for the install service yesterday. I'll keep my fingers crossed...

He takes a while to get to you. At least the developer is responding (albeit slowly)

Originally Posted by online

It keeps telling me my message is too short and I need to lengthen it to more than 1 character.

Don't use the advanced editor, use the standard editor. There are a number of problems with the advanced editor, not just with this application, but with many others.

Originally Posted by WebHostingTrend

Ive tried to put the FB Connect login script, in there - but of course, I get the loading bar, spinning around and around.

You've done something wrong in the settings. Double, even triple check your work, because you're missing a crucial point in the development process.

Originally Posted by Loco.M

I added this to another forum and when users post articles on Facebook, it's only linking to the forum that thread is in. Has this happen to others?

This is actually how the app is designed to work for new threads. Why? Because the thread doesn't HAVE an id yet, so an ID can't be submitted to facebook for the user to view. When a reply is made, the link to 'view the thread' should work properly

[jbekas]

Originally Posted by bposner

Recently users are complaining that the request to post message pops up every time now. There is no option to shut it off, accept just once.

This is the feature that prevents me from adding Facebook integration to my forum. This mod would be more useful (read as less obtrusive) as a checkbox on the post entry form instead of the popup dialog after each post.

[tpearl5]

Originally Posted by jbekas

This is the feature that prevents me from adding Facebook integration to my forum. This mod would be more useful (read as less obtrusive) as a checkbox on the post entry form instead of the popup dialog after each post.

This was a change in fb connect, not this application.

[Brandon Sheley]

Originally Posted by wolfstream

This is actually how the app is designed to work for new threads. Why? Because the thread doesn't HAVE an id yet, so an ID can't be submitted to facebook for the user to view. When a reply is made, the link to 'view the thread' should work properly

ah, seems logical
I did notice the link worked for the next reply.. ok

Originally Posted by jbekas

This is the feature that prevents me from adding Facebook integration to my forum. This mod would be more useful (read as less obtrusive) as a checkbox on the post entry form instead of the popup dialog after each post.

I wish this was in place as well