Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

[wcw]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

The code is case sensitive. Is mat_custom the correct spelling of the default category?

[lesliekirk]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

That is the correct category code.

[wcw]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

Try putting that code in the CTGYFB page template before the simplesearch token.

[lesliekirk]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

That worked - now to be able to get it to display the products from 4 categories :)

[wcw]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

It is only going to display the one you selected. The category filter is for one category.

[lesliekirk]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

It is only going to display the one you selected. The category filter is for one category.

LOL - I figured that, but I gave it a shot even though I had asked how to limit the ALL PRODUCTS displayed to (4) specific categories.

[wcw]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

You could put something in the description for all those you wanted to show as a default display. <!-- search //--> Then search on the keyword search. Miva would find them but would not display the text in the description.

[lesliekirk]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

Hmmmm, think I just hit a road block for this one - unless I can suggest the store own let me create a category for FB, then also assign the products to it too.

[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

[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 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

[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 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

[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?

[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>