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**wajake41** · 04-21-11, 03:22 PM

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

Hi Bill: We are attempting to get up to speed on facebook ourselves but I am unclear as to how to use your example shown here to do that. I went to your facebook page expecting to be able to view your site from there, but find I cannot. I don't see the links to "All Products", "Basket" & "Checkout" there. What an I missing? Should I be able to find your site displayed on facebook?

A further explanation about what you've done and how I can do the same would be greatly appreciated.
Regards, Larry

**wcw** · 04-21-11, 03:27 PM

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

The "how to" link is above. The link to the EmporiumPlus business page is also above. If you click the business page link you will see the business page with the menu items on the left side (column). Click the one that says Miva Merchant Modules (see the image in the post above).

**wajake41** · 04-22-11, 06:32 AM

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

Hello Bill: Sorry, but I have another question. I've modified your example PHP file and have named it miva2fb.php. However I'm confused on what the sdk file should contain. I'm looking at facebook's developer site for my app, is the code there supposed to be copied onto our server and named facebook.php?

Thanks, Larry

**wcw** · 04-22-11, 06:41 AM

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

You download that sdk and unzip it. One of the files inside the zip is called facebook.php. That is the one you FTP to your /facebook/ directory that you created in your domain.

**wajake41** · 04-22-11, 06:49 AM

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

Hi again Bill: I'm seaching all over the facebook docs for that zip file. I found an example of this php file. Is this it? If not, do you have a link to the zip file?
<?php

define('YOUR_APP_ID', 'your app id ');
define('YOUR_APP_SECRET', 'your app secret');

function get_facebook_cookie($app_id, $app_secret) {
$args = array();
parse_str(trim($_COOKIE['fbs_' . $app_id], '\\"'), $args);
ksort($args);
$payload = '';
foreach ($args as $key => $value) {
if ($key != 'sig') {
$payload .= $key . '=' . $value;
}
}
if (md5($payload . $app_secret) != $args['sig']) {
return null;
}
return $args;
}

$cookie = get_facebook_cookie(YOUR_APP_ID, YOUR_FACEBOOK_SECRET);

$user = json_decode(file_get_contents(
'https://graph.facebook.com/me?access_token=' .
$cookie['access_token']));

?>
<html>
<body>
<?php if ($cookie) { ?>
Welcome <?= $user->name ?>
<?php } else { ?>
<fb:login-button></fb:login-button>
<?php } ?>
<div id="fb-root"></div>
<script src="http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js"></script>
<script>
FB.init({appId: '<?= YOUR_APP_ID ?>', status: true,
cookie: true, xfbml: true});
FB.Event.subscribe('auth.login', function(response) {
window.location.reload();
});
</script>
</body>
</html>

Thanks, Larry

**wcw** · 04-22-11, 06:53 AM

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

The link is in the "how to" by hyperarts. See my "how to" which refers you to that "how to". Theirs is very complete with pictures to go with their instructions. They also provide the link to the latest php sdk at facebook. You can't do this whole thing if you have not followed the instructions in the hyperarts "how to".

**wajake41** · 04-22-11, 07:28 AM

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

Hi Bill: Thanks, I found it on the hyperarts site. For anyone else looking for the SDK, go to
http://www.hyperarts.com/blog/custom...st_reveal_tab/

and scroll down to paragraph "Installing the Facebook PHP SDK" and you'll see the link for the zip file.

Larry

**sbronstad** · 04-22-11, 07:31 AM

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

We're wholesale, so I don't think FaceBook would work for us at Star Time... question: How is Facebook converting into customers/sales? Seems like FB was more suited to branding than conversions (sales), but I'd love to be proved wrong...

**wcw** · 04-22-11, 07:52 AM

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

Why would it not work for wholesale? You are streaming your live data so if they login, they will see price group prices. The 5% discount I am running (if you "like" the page and use the Facebook portal to start your shopping) is causing some orders (40% of them this morning) to go through Facebook. Would they have ordered without Facebook, probably. Maybe all you need is a deal of the day or best sellers. But if you go that far, why not stream the whole store. It costs you nothing. You update your regular merchant store and don't worry about the FB side. It is the same data.

Here is something else to think about. I searched Google for these 4 words: facebook miva merchant modules
The first item was this forum. The second was my business page. Granted Google does not spider all the pages in the store, but it does get someone to the starting place. Unfortunately the Facebook internal search is worthless. Maybe they will improve it over time.

**wajake41** · 04-23-11, 07:13 AM

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

Hi Bill: Got our site working on FB, however I can't remove the horizontal scroll bar. Have tried tweaking the CSS in various ways but it still is there. Something must be > 520px wide, but I can't find it.
Tried all the tricks shown in the hyperarts site to no avail.

Did you have this problem?

If anyone has ideas about solving this, you can see our FB app at:
http://www.facebook.com/apps/applica...68414289883725

Regards, Larry

**wcw** · 04-23-11, 07:21 AM

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

I'm using
#site-containerfb{
width:500px;
margin:0 auto;
text-align:left;
border-collapse:collapse;
}
in the css file. Did you use 500 or 520 there?

Your product boxes seem like they are wider than in my store. I can't remember where that might be changed.

**wajake41** · 04-23-11, 08:31 AM

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

Hi Bill: I've tried 520px & 500px , plus even 300px and it doesn't seem to matter.
I'm think it may have something to do with the CSS for product-item, which I have defined as:
body.SRCH .product-item { width:50%;}
.product-item{
width:50%;
float:left;
}
.product-item .padding{
border:1px solid;
height:300px;
border-width:1px;
border-color:#aaaaaa;
border-style:solid;
margin:1px;
overflow:auto;
padding:10px;
}

I think it might be the padding:10px; but I don't know enough about CSS to be certain. I commented the padding out & tested the FB app and I saw that the horizontal scroll bar was gone at one point, however now it's back.
I don't know if the browser cache is screwing me over or what. Sometimes when I make a CSS change, it doesn't seem to take effect.

Gotta leave this for now, been working on it for the past 4 hours and am really frustrated.

Regards, Larry

**wajake41** · 04-23-11, 08:39 AM

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

Hi Bill: Maybe it was cache screwing me over. I shut down XP to standby, then brought it back up and the horizonal scroll bar is gone.

Sure wish I knew how to permanently disable cache on IE8 & FF4.

Regards, Larry

**wajake41** · 04-23-11, 11:25 AM

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

Hi again Bill: On my FB Basket page, the basket heading is spaced way down below the <h1>Shopping Basket text. Yours isn't. I think we are using the Basket CSS definitions as they came from Miva.

Did you have to modify the CSS for the basket page to remove this spacing on that page?

Thanks, Larry

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