Facebook Connect & phpBB

kickball365 · Post by **kickball365** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 4:14 pm

I asked this question in the general thread requests and was told to come this way...

My question is:
Is it possible to allow Facebook Connect as a login option for your phpBB Community? (Same question can be applied to OpenID, MySpaceID, and Google's Friend Connect) And, if possible, who could design it for the Community (or did I miss a post already detailing a mod?)?

There are numerous services launching and I'm curious if folks are looking into implementing these additional login options to their Forum - if its even a possibility. I personally believe it could drive additional visitors to yoru site if you can link back actions from your phpBB community to the live "social" stream on FB, MySpace, etc.

Thanks...

ecwpa · Post by **ecwpa** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 3:43 pm

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=630563174283
here a video tutorial

they promise more tutorials for more advanced features in the future.

some tips:
the xd_receiver.htm file must be in your forum root, not the entire domain root
the posting form is in posting_editor.html, within your /styles/prosilver/template folder

that's all, so far it works

sorry for my bad english anyway

kickball365 · Post by **kickball365** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 8:51 pm

Does anyone have any example URLs implemeting FB connect, OpenID, etc. yet?

thanks

SirDigby · Post by **SirDigby** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 5:20 pm

it would be nice if someone could put together a tutorial on how to do it on phpbb3 since i would not know where to start even with the video tutorial.

richiebgood · Post by **richiebgood** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 1:13 am

I know it works great on vbulletin with a hack, so I am sure it can be made to work with phpbb3

joshsmith · Post by **joshsmith** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 7:10 am

I'm research on the Internet for this mod but I don't have luck for this.. Other blog's and forums have the plugin developed. I think that is a nice implementation for phpbb3.

d5t · Post by **d5t** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 12:43 am

I agree, anyone tried to install Facebook Connect into phpBB3?

freejoe76 · Post by **freejoe76** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 10:19 pm

I started working on something that does this today. It doesn't look simple. If there's anyone else working on something like this, get in touch with me.

-Joe

mreider · Post by **mreider** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 4:30 pm

Do a google search for 'open inviter'

medy · Post by **medy** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 7:31 pm

Hi,

Has anybody managed to get the plugin working? I tried to follow the RPX instructions 100% but it didn't work for me (both popup and the iframe version). The RPX control panel shows the login attempts as successful, but I cannot really login to phpBB3. I tested gmail and facebook options on default (prosilver) and custom (rockettheme) template.

I suspect it must be something with the token_url which i might not understand correctly. I get a valid API response (through RPX test tool) but sending it to a token URL doesn't do the trick

For token_url I have used domain URL where phpBB in installed.

PS: I am using phpBB3 integrated with Joomla with RokBridge component.

Best Regards

dankingsley · Post by **dankingsley** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 2:56 pm

All I really want is a simple facebook connect application which allows people to log into your forum using their facebook account. Is this currently under development?

Xabi · Post by **Xabi** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 4:06 pm

I'm very interested on this too!

kickball365 · Post by **kickball365** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 10:20 pm

*bump*

any updates from the dev's out there possibly working on this? if you are pushing this to get developed please let us know - unfortunately i can't code it but i can assist in testing/spreading the word/etc.

thanks community

Woody_tng · Post by **Woody_tng** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 5:18 pm

*re-bump*

I would really find this a life saver. It would literaly save my site.

Joshy · Post by **Joshy** » Sat Apr 04, 2009 4:44 am

What exactly does Facebook Connect do?
And what would implementing it into phpBB do?

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