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Simple Facebook Connect (1.0.3)

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Version: 1.0.3

Last Updated: 2011-4-3

Requires bbPress Version: 1.0 or higher

Compatible up to: 1.0.3

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Author: moogie

Adds a single-click seamless Facebook Connect -based registration/login to your bbPress. The user is not bothered with anything extra, and is automatically logged in right after accepting the Facebook authorization popup.

DEMO SITE: http://moogie.idle.fi/bbpress-demo/

Very simple installation, at minimum only two changes required on your blog:

edit the theme header.php, and add the facebook xmlns param to the <html> tag
edit the theme, and place <?php fb_login_button(); ?> where you want the login button to appear

A Facebook Application ID and Secret is obviously required, as the Facebook Connect requires these.

Other features:

Facebook Avatars are displayed automatically (if avatars are enabled in your bbPress settings)
No unnecessary registration email spam is sent to the user.
Disables password edit for facebook connected users; the random password assigned to the account is never used
Select how users Display Name is set from Facebook (Full Name, First Name or Last Name)
(optional) Disables profile edit for facebook connected users
(optional) Request users email address from facebook. If disabled, a dummy email is set for the user.
(optional) Hide "You must login" from post form, which leads to the traditional login form. This would confuse Facebook Connected users, as they cannot login traditionally.
Select how to initialize Facebook Javascript SDK - automatically (when needed), always or never. Can solve conflicts with other plugins/themes using the Facebook SDK.

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Opes

Member

Hi. This plugin looks really promising, but I do have one problem. When I try to activate it I get the following error:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class FacebookApiException in /*/bb-plugins/simple-facebook-connect/facebook.php on line 91

Any ideas on how to fix it?

Posted: 1 year ago #
Opes

Member

Okay, managed to fix it by changing require('facebook.php'); to:

if (!class_exists('FacebookApiException')) {
include_once('facebook.php');
}

But I am having a problem logging back in, I get the error:

Error: an user account with the email address 'myemailaddress' already exists.

Back to forum.

Posted: 1 year ago #
Opes

Member

Sorry for the flood, but it also seems to create many identical users in the user table, with just a higher number at the end in the username every time someone logs back in.

Posted: 1 year ago #
moogie1

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Thanks Opes, I didn't think of conflicts with many plugins loading facebook.php. I'll add your fix to the next version.

What version of bbPress are you running? I honestly don't know about the backwards (or forwards) compatibility, I've only tested with 1.0.3 myself.

I can think of only one way that something what you describe could happen, and that is if bb_update_usermeta() does not update the users facebook ID to the bb_usermeta table.

If you can do SQL, output of "select * from bb_usermeta where user_id = x" (where x = a user id of a user created by this plugin) would help.

Posted: 1 year ago #
Opes

Member

I have WP and BB user integration, so this is the output from wp_usermeta:

umeta_id user_id meta_key meta_value
148 17 bb_capabilities a:1:{s:6:"member";b:1;}
149 17 facebook_id 0123456789 // fake number, but correct
150 17 first_name John
151 17 last_name Johnson

Posted: 1 year ago #
Opes

Member

Okay, got it working.
The plugin does not seem to play well with the wp/bb integration. I changed:

$bb_userid = $bbdb->get_var("SELECT user_id FROM ".$bbdb->prefix ."usermeta WHERE meta_key = 'facebook_id' AND meta_value = '".$fb_id."'");

to:

$bb_userid = $bbdb->get_var("SELECT user_id FROM "./* $bbdb->prefix .*/"wp_usermeta WHERE meta_key = 'facebook_id' AND meta_value = '".$fb_id."'");

If you could get it to detect weather you have wp_usermeta or bb_usermeta in next release that would be cool :).
Thank you, great first release, great plugin, just what I needed :).

Posted: 1 year ago #
moogie1

Member

Thanks Opes, will definitely look into that :)

Posted: 1 year ago #
moogie1

Member

Just posted version 1.0.2. If you are using the plugin, I'd recommend to upgrade, as the old version did not properly handle users who had a Facebook ID >= [signed 32bit int] if bbPress was run on a 32bit PHP. Accounts for such users would need to be deleted, and the users need to login again.

Posted: 1 year ago #
Skwigly

Member

The facebook login button does not work if you place a XFBML facebook like button on the same page.

Any suggestions for that?

Posted: 1 year ago #
moogie1

Member

How are you adding the Like button? Using some other module?

The button itself should not conflict with the Login button in any way. A conflict can happen if you have another module which also initialized the Facebook Javascript SDK: in this case, you need to use option to disable the initialization from this (or the other) plugin.

Posted: 1 year ago #
Trabzon Demir

Member

güzel çalışma.

Posted: 1 year ago #
hugobrook

Member

I've followed the installation steps perfectly, but just get this when I try to 'Login with Facebook':

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Apache mod_fcgid/2.3.6 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 Server at http://www.hoopbot.com Port 80

Posted: 1 year ago #
yadavmahesh

Member

I am a newbee. The following error is coming

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '{' in /nfs/c04/h06/mnt/84423/domains/noneoftheabove.in/html/forums/bb-plugins/simple-facebook-connect/connect.php on line 36

Do i need to install any other plugin like 'Avatar Upload' to make this plugin work. Kindly guide ?

Posted: 1 year ago #
moogie1

Member

yadavmahesh: you need PHP5 to use this plugin. Based on the error, I'd say your host has PHP4.

hugobrook: i'm sorry, I have no idea.

Posted: 1 year ago #
hugobrook

Member

Thanks for looking anyway :)

Posted: 1 year ago #
iPad 2 kopen

Member

Nice plugin!

Posted: 1 year ago #
oraclecoow

Member

hi, i got a question, i'm adding bbpress on a running wordpress site, i already have a facebook app running on the blog too, and set the app to recognize everything from the same domain.

i'm not quite sure what did you mean by these :
"edit the theme header.php, and add the facebook xmlns param to the <html> tag " is it the login button with the pic ?

i tried to put it, but and it shows i'm already connected to the blog since it's still in the same domain, but i can't post yet, haven't figure out where i went wrong though.

and when i tried to put the "<?php fb_login_button(); ?> " it doesn't seem to work..
does it have to do with the wp integration ? i think i might have said yes to it when i installed bbpress.

Posted: 1 year ago #
mattsich

Member

Can you please please please add a logout button? because so far I can log in.. but can't log out =(

Posted: 10 months ago #
ajayoct

Member

Hey ,

Initially there was a problem with facebook error :
Missing redirect_uri parameter.
Got that fixed by changing the url while registering app in facebook to the templates directory.

Now getting error:-Facebook Connect failed

This comes after loggin-in before redirecting to my homepage

Posted: 10 months ago #

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