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.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by Sea Shepherd

This. ^^

If this isn't part of the mod then it should be.
When facebook users come across the forum url from a link they should be able to login with their facebook ID and then an automatic forum profile matching their FB profile is established properly on the forum, with the very clear option to create a separate forum username should they not desire to use their fb name. They can edit their full forum profie when they get around to it.

I thought this was part of the mod anyway?

If not, can it be done?

Sounds tricky!

This is precisely what this mod does. I'm not sure why people don't understand that.

[Sea Shepherd]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

This is precisely what this mod does. I'm not sure why people don't understand that.

Well then i might just have to install it!



Can someone show me a link to a forum that already users it? I'd like to give it a shot before i install it.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by Sea Shepherd

Well then i might just have to install it!



Can someone show me a link to a forum that already users it? I'd like to give it a shot before i install it.

I haven't upgraded mine yet, but you can try it in the first website link in my signature.

[Sea Shepherd]

Thanks!
I like it!

[nMIK-3]

Originally Posted by ekantnl

yes they can

Thanks for the quick reply mate!
Can you please provide me with some more info regarding that.

Once the vB account is merged with facebook account then the user has the option to choose what the display name on the forum will be? In case the nickname in the vb forum is different from the facebook name. Also I am guessing the facebook profile pic will be imported as an avatar to vb forum, if the user wants can have different pic in vb forum instead of the facebook profile pic? Thanks in advanced.

[fattony69]

This would be nice if it added the template edits automatically

[nMIK-3]

sllik

I have a small problem.

I setup the whole thing successfully but I have the following issue.

My forum path in vbulletin settings is http://mysite.com/forum without the www.
I setup the facebook application with the callback URL to be the same as the vbulletin http://mysite.com/forum

Now if somebody access my site by typing http://mysite.com or just mysite.com (without the www.) the facebook connect plugin works flawlessly!

But if you access the website using the www prefix like http://www.mysite.com or just www.mysite.com then the facebook connect is not working. So most of the people that enter my site and using the www. prefix cannot use facebook connect.

I tried change the forum path in vbulletin settings by adding the www. prefix and updated the facebook application callback URL with the www. prefix and I am getting the exact opposite results.

Now when you enter the site with the www prefix like http://www.mysite.com you can use the facebook connect. But if you enter it without the www like http://mysite.com then facebook connect once again is not working.

Any idea how I can make it work with both the www. prefix and without?

Is this a known issue?

[turbosatan]

Originally Posted by nMIK-3

sllik

I have a small problem.

I setup the whole thing successfully but I have the following issue.

My forum path in vbulletin settings is http://mysite.com/forum without the www.
I setup the facebook application with the callback URL to be the same as the vbulletin http://mysite.com/forum

Now if somebody access my site by typing http://mysite.com or just mysite.com (without the www.) the facebook connect plugin works flawlessly!

But if you access the website using the www prefix like http://www.mysite.com or just www.mysite.com then the facebook connect is not working. So most of the people that enter my site and using the www. prefix cannot use facebook connect.

I tried change the forum path in vbulletin settings by adding the www. prefix and updated the facebook application callback URL with the www. prefix and I am getting the exact opposite results.

Now when you enter the site with the www prefix like http://www.mysite.com you can use the facebook connect. But if you enter it without the www like http://mysite.com then facebook connect once again is not working.

Any idea how I can make it work with both the www. prefix and without?

Is this a known issue?

use a htaccess redirect and pick either www or non www and stick with just that one redirecting all traffic from the one to the other.

its also good for SEO to redirect all non www to www or vice versa

[nMIK-3]

Originally Posted by turbosatan

use a htaccess redirect and pick either www or non www and stick with just that one redirecting all traffic from the one to the other.

its also good for SEO to redirect all non www to www or vice versa

You mean to manyally edit the .htaccess file?

[solboy]

Works fine now. Thanks guys. Great Mod.