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.

[dadymac]

Originally Posted by Spooony

Aye, that's exactly how I've got it. Change the default usergroup to 4 under FB Connect options. They'll go into the COPPA usergroup once registered (via Facebook) but to get registered in the first place the unregistered usergroup needs permission to view the forums (even if you don't actually show them individual forums under view permissions) if that makes sense.

that worked...thanks a ton.

now to figure out why the feeds aren't working the way I envision.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by kursed

Can you please change the gif at login page from 'Connect with Facebook' to 'Login using Facebook'?

The image is hosted by FaceBook, so you'd have to create your own and change the file path to your local image.

[dadymac]

this option seems to be working: "New Subscribed Thread Reply Notification" ... but if you click it off and still subscribe to the thread, the notification is sent to the thread creator.

but this one: "New Own Thread Reply Notification" doesnt work with or w/o thread subscription.

[C138 Kaysone]

is it really recommended that i make a separate user group?

[C138 Kaysone]

Urgent HELP! I have user cp Icons, and its messing up my template.. what can i do?

[kursed]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

The image is hosted by FaceBook, so you'd have to create your own and change the file path to your local image.

Can you please tell me as to where do I have to make this change? As in which file?

[kursed]

Okay, I found it, thanks a bunch. =)

[Spooony]

Originally Posted by Spooony

Just one thing, how do I assign a Facebook account to a different VB account?
I've set my own Facebook account to link with a test VB account, but would like it linked to my main account.

Any ideas on this one? :S

[dadymac]

Originally Posted by Spooony

Any ideas on this one? :S

there should be an entry in your db under fbuser table.

[Spooony]

Originally Posted by dadymac

there should be an entry in your db under fbuser table.

Magic, thank you