Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

[wcw]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

Nice.

[wajake41]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

Hi Jim: Took a look. Nice job!
Larry

[Jim Cockerham]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

Hi Jim: I found that because our desktop sites are 960px wide, that it is easier to adapt our existing facebook apps to the new 810px viewport then to modify our desktop sites. The additional width now allows the category page to display 4 wide. I like that! If you are still having problems with your facebook app, take a look at mine and if you would find the code useful, I can provide it.
Larry

Thank you so much Larry! I have the same issue wide a wide store. I have ended up hacking the right column off and creating new screens for Facebook. I have the category and product pages done finally. I am working on the checkout screens now. Check it out: https://www.facebook.com/CoffeeHouse...40311702647758

[wajake41]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

Hi Jim: I found that because our desktop sites are 960px wide, that it is easier to adapt our existing facebook apps to the new 810px viewport then to modify our desktop sites. The additional width now allows the category page to display 4 wide. I like that!
I've completed 2 of our sites apps. One is MMUI https://www.facebook.com/RvParkSupplies
and the other is CSSUI https://www.facebook.com/XleratorHandDryer
If you are still having problems with your facebook app, take a look at mine and if you would find the code useful, I can provide it.
Larry

[Jim Cockerham]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

Hi Jim: Everything on Facebook is changing at the end of March. I will be reworking our FB pages this month.
Bill Weiland has a thread at:
http://extranet.mivamerchant.com/for...218#post397218
that should help you (and me). He's going to create a how-to in the next day or so.
Larry

Great, thanks Larry and Bill.

[wajake41]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

Hi Jim: Everything on Facebook is changing at the end of March. I will be reworking our FB pages this month.
Bill Weiland has a thread at:
http://extranet.mivamerchant.com/for...218#post397218
that should help you (and me). He's going to create a how-to in the next day or so.
Larry

[Jim Cockerham]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

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

Larry, can I have a look at your code? I can't seem to get it working on my app. I have the proper version of PHP installed and have gone over the instructions about 6 times. I gave up about 6 months ago, but I'm trying it again. Right now the app displays my full store with scroll bars. If i go diectly to the url specified in my miva2fb.php file it displays as it should in the app.

[Red Flare]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

On my Facebook page, how do I make the following: Like us and get a coupon?

[wcw]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

On the BASKFB page just after the body tag.

<mvt:item name="toolkit" param="affiliate|myaffil" />
<mvt:if expr="g.myaffil AND (l.settings:myaffiliate:code EQ 'friends')">
<mvt:item name="toolkit" param="discount|FaceBook Discount 5%|'5%'|0|" />
</mvt:if>

[1337coders]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

I'm having a little trouble applying a discount to the basket if someone has "liked" our Facebook page. I've tried using the toolkit myaffliate function, setting a php cookie on miva2fb.php, ect. Reaching my wits end. Bill could you shed a little light on how you accomplished this?

[wajake41]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

Hi Leslie: That sounds like a good way to go. You know, the old KISS approach.
You could even create a FB app for each category, thats what we've done with our 3 one category apps.

Regards, Larry

[lesliekirk]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

Thanks Larry - I'm leaning towards a category just for Facebook, then it can be the default search category that Bill's snippet would use. I probably wouldn't need the drop down CATLIST - unless not using it would break functionality.

[wajake41]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

Hi Bill: I've been playing with my idea and yes, I found that too.
However by changing the default value in g.ProductsPerPage to All (99999) I can get multiple categories to display. However, the product count doesn't correspond to the products displayed.

If I really had to do what Leslie wants, I would run the simplesearch complete (All) result set thru the filter logic, putting the selected products into an array.
Then use that array to create the products on the page, together with the product count and paging links. A lot of work and probably not worth the effort unless the client really wants/needs it.

Thankfully, in our FB apps, we are only displaying either all products or a single category.
Larry

[wcw]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

That won't work for the same reason you can't do it with the regular product list or search list in Merchant. You might have 20 items per page. Then you might have the first 20 items don't belong to your cat list. Hence, blank page. Page numbering would not work either.

[wajake41]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

Hi Leslie: I wonder if you could create your filter by category conditional in the foreach result set from the simplesearch? Bill, is the category code available in that result set.
If the category is available, you could totally eliminate the category select box, have the simplesearch get all products and then display only those in the categories you filter for.

Larry