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.

[nMIK-3]

Originally Posted by solboy

Works fine now. Thanks guys. Great Mod.

OK I edit the htaccess and everything works great now!! :up::up:

One last question.

When you post something on forum the notification on faceboook wall includes the sententes visit MySite. And redirects to mysite.com/forum

How can I made this redirect to mysite.com

[turbosatan]

Originally Posted by nMIK-3

You mean to manyally edit the .htaccess file?

basically add this

Options +FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride FileInfo
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

if you already have rewriting on then you may already have the

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on

in which case just add

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

on the end of whatever is in there

[sllik]

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?

I think there is actually a better way than editing the .htaccess file. In the facebook app settings under the Connect tab set the Base Domain setting.

[fmckinnon]

I'm very excited to have found this mod, and hope to install it. A couple of questions first:

1 - is there any known conflict with the vbulletin/wordpress bridge mod? We use this so that our forum members can also comment on the wordpress-driven portion of the site, etc. The mod basically shares VB users as WP users.

2 - just to make sure I'm understanding ... we require registration (which includes email activation) to create new threads or respond to threads. If someone comes along and logs in w/ their FaceBook account - will they be able to post immediately, or will the email activation go to them (or I assume, their FaceBook email account?)

Thanks in advance - will likely pay to have this installed if the answers are favorable.
http://www.theworshipcommunity.com/forums/

[BellyBelly]

Is this working on 3.8?

[fmckinnon]

BellyBelly -
I've seen reports that it *IS* working.

OK - I've installed it now on http://www.theworshipcommunity.com/forums/

However,
When I attempt to view the application on FaceBook, it gives me this on this link:
http://apps.facebook.com/theworshipcommunity/

Errors while loading page from application
Parse errors:

CSS Error (line 32 char 30): Error in parsing value for property.: 'background-repeat' Declaration dropped.

FBML Error (line 348): illegal tag "body" under "fb:canvas"

CSS Error (line 355 char 140): Error in parsing value for property.: 'background-repeat' Declaration dropped.

FBML Error (line 397): illegal tag "noscript" under "fb:canvas"

FBML Error (line 580): illegal tag "noscript" under "fb:canvas"

FBML Error (line 625): illegal tag "noscript" under "fb:canvas"

There are still a few kinks Facebook and the makers of TheWorshipCommunity.Com are trying to iron out. We appreciate your patience as we try to fix these issues. Your problem has been logged - if it persists, please come back in a few days. Thanks!

[Big-K]

Hi Slikk,

This is working great on my site. Thanks for helping with the install. Three questions

1. I have a vb login on the homepage of my site (non-vb page). Is there any way I can have Facebook Connect on this login page?

2. I don't have the vbconnect link like you have in the fourth screenshot. Is that an omission?

3. How can I re-associate a user an existing user with a different facebook account if its already associated with another.

[usearchme]

Does this work with 3.8 ?

Woc

[music legend]

Originally Posted by usearchme

Does this work with 3.8 ?

Woc

yes it is working just fine with 3.8

[Phaedrus]

Does it stop them from using a nick that is already in use as a registered name?