Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

[lesliekirk]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

I know Bill tweeted this and it's probably already been pointed out a dozen times over, but one more time for good measure. Make sure you have at LEAST version v5.178 of the Toolkit. It added the Simple Search which is also very crucial to making this work.

It's definitely taken me more than 25 minutes to get all the MMUI pieces of the puzzle put together, with many thanks to Dan.

Leslie

[wcw]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

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[Tom Gleason]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

You can call your pages directly and will see what appears in the middle window (iframe) of FB. See http://www.emporiumplus.com/CTGYFB.html

Excellent! Thank you!

[wcw]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

You can call your pages directly and will see what appears in the middle window (iframe) of FB. See http://www.emporiumplus.com/CTGYFB.html

[Tom Gleason]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

I purchased Toolkit Monday, created my code and pages yesterday... and come to find out that MIVA Merchant servers are at 5.1.6 (at least where MIVA hosting our site). I've opened a ticket with them but I was wondering if there was a way to view and tweak my store for Facebook in the meantime while they upgrade their version of PHP to 5.3.6?

Using facebook.php and miva2fb.php per the tutorials/instructions.

Thanks!

[wajake41]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

Hello fellow FB app users: Just wanted to report some results about our FB apps.
I've added a tracking email to our OCST page that notifies us when a customer has hit that page coming from one of our FB apps.
Surprise, we are getting significant traffic from our FB apps! Using FB as an entry portal was something I was very skeptical about and I actually never expected it to produce much.

While we are only presently tracking FB visits to the OCST page, we are going to put FB tracking on the rest of the checkout pages so we can get a feel for the conversions coming from FB.

I would be interested in hearing how FB has improved traffic and sales for any other Miva merchants. Is it working for you?

Once again, thanks to wcw for posting this FB app solution to the forum.

Regards, Larry

[Datagg]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

So having a lower PHP version will result in the miva2fb.php page being "blank"? As in no code what so ever?

Sure does... Took Bill & i a few passes to figure that one out. I was in the same PHP main version, yet one upgrade below.. Once David updated, all good.

[wajake41]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

Leslie, the templates have been sent to you. Let me know if you don't receive them.
And thanks for the "Like"
Larry

[wcw]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

Correct. The code in the facebook.php fails and the program does not finish.

[lesliekirk]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

I changed the "how to" to reflect PHP 5.3.6. We still don't know the exact number required. It is probably 5.3.

So having a lower PHP version will result in the miva2fb.php page being "blank"? As in no code what so ever?

[wajake41]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

I wanted to create a sorted, unique Category select box for our FB CTGYFB page so have replaced the FB CATLIST template code with the following.

However I'd like to streamline the portion of the code that retrieves our categories. Hope someone can suggest a way to improve that part of the code. I've high lighted the code I'd like to streamline:

<mvt:item name="toolkit" param="sassign|newstring|" />
<mvt:item name="toolkit" param="sassign|comma|," />
<mvt:item name="toolkit" param="sassign|period|." />

<mvt:item name="toolkit" param="parentcat|pccount" />
<mvt:foreach iterator="parent_category" array="parent_categories">
<mvt:item name="toolkit" param="concat|newstring|g.newstring|l.all_settings :parent_category:name" />
<mvt:item name="toolkit" param="concat|newstring|g.newstring|g.period" />
<mvt:item name="toolkit" param="concat|newstring|g.newstring|l.all_settings :parent_category:code" />
<mvt:item name="toolkit" param="concat|newstring|g.newstring|g.comma" />

<mvt:item name="toolkit" param="subcat|ccount|l.all_settings:parent_categor y:code" />

<mvt:if expr="ccount GT 0">
<mvt:foreach iterator="sub_category" array="sub_categories">
<mvt:item name="toolkit" param="concat|newstring|g.newstring|l.all_settings :sub_category:name" />
<mvt:item name="toolkit" param="concat|newstring|g.newstring|g.period" />
<mvt:item name="toolkit" param="concat|newstring|g.newstring|l.all_settings :sub_category:code" />
<mvt:item name="toolkit" param="concat|newstring|g.newstring|g.comma" />


<mvt:item name="toolkit" param="subcat2|ccount2|l.all_settings:sub_category :code" />
<mvt:if expr="ccount2 GT 0">
<mvt:foreach iterator="sub_category2" array="sub_categories2">
<mvt:item name="toolkit" param="concat|newstring|g.newstring|l.all_settings :sub_category2:name" />
<mvt:item name="toolkit" param="concat|newstring|g.newstring|g.period" />
<mvt:item name="toolkit" param="concat|newstring|g.newstring|l.all_settings :sub_category2:code" />
<mvt:item name="toolkit" param="concat|newstring|g.newstring|g.comma" />

<mvt:item name="toolkit" param="subcat3|ccount3|l.all_settings:sub_category 2:code" />
<mvt:if expr="ccount3 GT 0">
<mvt:foreach iterator="sub_category3" array="sub_categories3">
<mvt:item name="toolkit" param="concat|newstring|g.newstring|l.all_settings :sub_category3:name" />
<mvt:item name="toolkit" param="concat|newstring|g.newstring|g.period" />
<mvt:item name="toolkit" param="concat|newstring|g.newstring|l.all_settings :sub_category3:code" />
<mvt:item name="toolkit" param="concat|newstring|g.newstring|g.comma" />

<mvt:item name="toolkit" param="subcat4|ccount4|l.all_settings:sub_category 3:code" />
<mvt:if expr="ccount4 GT 0">
<mvt:foreach iterator="sub_category4" array="sub_categories4">
&mvt:sub_category4:name;</br>
</mvt:foreach>
</mvt:if>
</mvt:foreach>
</mvt:if>
</mvt:foreach>
</mvt:if>
</mvt:foreach>
</mvt:if>
</mvt:foreach>

<mvt:item name="toolkit" param="vacreate|Cat_tbl|g.newstring|," />
<mvt:item name="toolkit" param="asort|Cat_tbl2|l.all_settings:Cat_tbl" />

<mvt:item name="toolkit" param="sassign|last|9999" />
<select name="Category_Code">
<option value=""> Select a product type</option>
<mvt:foreach iterator="category" array="Cat_tbl2">
<mvt:item name="toolkit" param="gettoken|l.all_settings:category,.,2|code" />
<mvt:item name="toolkit" param="gettoken|l.all_settings:category,.,1|desc" />
<mvt:item name="toolkit" param="cxpc|pcount|g.code" />
<mvt:if expr="pcount GT 0 AND NOT ISNULL g.code">
<mvt:if expr="g.desc NE g.last">
<mvt:if expr="g.Category_Code EQ g.code">
<option value="&mvt:global:code;" SELECTED>&mvt:global:desc;</option>
<mvt:else>
<option value="&mvt:global:code;">&mvt:global:desc;</option>
</mvt:if>
<mvt:item name="toolkit" param="vassign|last|g.desc" />
</mvt:if>
</mvt:if>

</mvt:foreach>
</select>

Thanks, Larry

[wajake41]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

Thanks Bill: That's perfect!
Larry

[wcw]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

&myvar=1 in the url would display 1 if you put &mvte:global:myvar; in the CTGYFB page.

[wajake41]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

Hi Bill: More questions about this.
I want to pass a URL &variable from miva1fb.php to the CTGYFB module so I can control how the Category <select is built. I know how to get the variable into the URL in miva1fb.php but am looking for the best way to extract it from the URL in CTGYFB. I can use a JavaScript function to do this, but am wondering if there is a better way?

Thanks, Larry

[wajake41]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

Thanks Bill: I couldn't have gotten our FB apps up without you.

I can help with some of those MMUI stores. The template code I'm using for my FB MMUI app is available to anyone who "Likes" my FB page at:
www.facebook.com/pages/Orange-Traffic-Cones/138094319587939

I've provided it to Dan (Datagg) and am waiting to see if it proves useful to him.

Thanks again, Larry