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.

[jlew24asu]

Originally Posted by sllik

make sure you set your vbulletin url to: http://sundeviltalk.com/forums
in your vbulletin settings

sorry for bothering you with this but it is. do I need a / at the end? in vbull settings it says Note: do not add a trailing slash. ('/')

something is wrong because I use CMPS I think.

[macc]

Originally Posted by sllik

I'll release an update in a sec... do you have friends on your facebook account?

have no friends ...maked facebook account for few hours before (followed install instructions) ... and get many database errors - wrote before ...when new user should write username ...

callback url is http://libar-libar.com/libar/vb

reg

macc

[sllik]

Originally Posted by jlew24asu

sorry for bothering you with this but it is. do I need a / at the end? in vbull settings it says Note: do not add a trailing slash. ('/')

something is wrong because I use CMPS I think.

I'll release an update in a bit that will fix your problem

[sllik]

Originally Posted by macc

have no friends ...maked facebook account for few hours before (followed install instructions) ... and get many database errors - wrote before ...when new user should write username ...

callback url is http://libar-libar.com/libar/vb

reg

macc

this happens only for accounts with no friends, I'll release an update in bit that will take care of this problem.

[jlew24asu]

thanks sllik

[sllik]

Add-on updated! Those who are having problems please upgrade!

[jlew24asu]

eek, now I cant log into my forum at all.

edit: ok, I was able to log in after deleting and re-adding all the files from this hack. that was scary.

sadly, I still get this...

Invalid Argument

The Facebook Connect cross-domain receiver URL (http://www.sundeviltalk.com/xd_recei...%220.198%22%7D) must have the application's callback url (http://sundeviltalk.com/forums) as a prefix. You can configure the callback url in the application's settings.

[Wakey]

Originally Posted by sllik

Add-on updated! Those who are having problems please upgrade!

Why does the fblogin.php page just display half the php code in the file rather than login. I have tried everything to get it to work but it wont

[janslu]

I'm running 3.8.0 Rc1 with vbseo 2.5.0 and I've had two problems on my website and had to disable the plugin.

1. the footer code didn't parse the redirect correctly (the "forum" was missing and it had
FB.init(...hash...,"//fb_redirect...");
value. Note the double slash. I've changed it manually and some errors disappeared.

2. I'm using vbseo and people (valid users) going anywhere but to forum start page were greeted with connection reset errors. Unfortunately IE6 threw out connection error and didn't open the page at all. I've tried to fix it but couldn't... My server logs didn't have any errors...

Any help will be very approeciated as this functionality is very, very welcome by my users...

Cheers
Jan

[sllik]

Originally Posted by jlew24asu

eek, now I cant log into my forum at all.

edit: ok, I was able to log in after deleting and re-adding all the files from this hack. that was scary.

sadly, I still get this...

Invalid Argument

The Facebook Connect cross-domain receiver URL (http://www.sundeviltalk.com/xd_recei...%220.198%22%7D) must have the application's callback url (http://sundeviltalk.com/forums) as a prefix. You can configure the callback url in the application's settings.

try setting your callback url to http://sundeviltalk.com