Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

[Jimmie]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

Looks like I am running PHP Version 5.1.6 , docs say it might need 5.3.6, could that be the issue?

[wcw]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

If it is not doing what it is supposed to and you have version 5.1.6, that would likely be the problem.

[lesliekirk]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

How would I go about limiting the category page results to only a few selected categories?

Leslie

[wcw]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

View the source of the CTGYFB page (display outside of the iframe in Facebook so you can view it). Copy the category list to a notepad and modify. Then copy back to the template.

[lesliekirk]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

Thanks that worked great for the down list, but all the products are still displaying when the All Products link is clicked.

Leslie

[wcw]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

If you don't want the "all products", you'll need to make a category a default selection. Before the category drop down, something like
<mvt:if expr=NOT g.category_code">
<mvt:item name="toolkit" param="sassign|category_code|codeofyourdefault" />
</mvt:if>

[wajake41]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

Hi Bill & Leslie: We are doing something similar to what Bill has suggested. We have multiple FB apps with their own mivaXfb.php program. In these programs we have added a parm to the URL which we use in the simplesearch keyword field of CTGYFB so that when the page is first displayed, only products with that keyword are displayed.
This probably won't solve you problem, but it does give the flexability of not having to code the category value in the CTGYFB page.

Now your question and Bill's response lead me to this:
Maybe by using a parm defined as a deliminated string of categories, a custom category select box could be built without the "all" value and only containing the categories within the param? I believe toolkit has a function that can separate such a string into an array and using that array, the <select box can be built.
I think it might work.
Larry

[wajake41]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

Hi Bill: I'm attempting to create my custom select box for my FB app that I spoke about in my previous post in this trhead. I'm passing the categories in a parm from my miva4fb.php program and want to retain the parm by saving it in a cookie using your toolkit "setcookie" function. However I don't know how to retrieve the cookie. Does toolkit or Mive have a function that I can use to do this?
Thanks, Larry

[wcw]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

Look at the updatebasket function for examples of saving and reading coolies. The example code is saving the customer name, etc

[wajake41]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

Hi Bill: Thanks for the lead on the get cookie code. Tried it and no surprise, it works.
Now a question: I understand that cookies are stored on the client computer.
And your toolkit functions are executed on the server, so how do you store and retrieve client cookies from the server? Are they somewhere in the URL headers or ?

Just wondering, Larry

[wcw]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

They are pulled from the client's computer as the webpage is displayed. So you have conditional code in the web page. For example, if you have a cookie on your computer and you visit my site, it will say "Larry please sign in". If no cookie, it just says "please sign in".

[lesliekirk]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

If you don't want the "all products", you'll need to make a category a default selection. Before the category drop down, something like
<mvt:if expr=NOT g.category_code">
<mvt:item name="toolkit" param="sassign|category_code|codeofyourdefault" />
</mvt:if>

And if 4 categories are to be used? The same 4 that are in the drop down list.

[lesliekirk]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

<mvt:if expr="NOT g.category_code">
<mvt:item name="toolkit" param="sassign|category_code|codeofyourdefault" />
</mvt:if>

Do I wrap this around the select? Just putting it before it doesn't limit the products.

[wcw]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

It goes before. What did you put for the 2nd line?

[lesliekirk]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

I changed it to one of the four category codes that needs to be displayed.

<mvt:if expr="NOT g.category_code">
<mvt:item name="toolkit" param="sassign|category_code|mat_custom" />
</mvt:if>

I put it in the CATLIST page just above the code for the drop down.