AutoFacebook [Support]

[VisExp]

First of all thank you for a great mod.

I have installed it and it seems to be working fine with one exception. I uploaded a test product to my website and the mod generated a post on my facebook page. The only problem is the post was generated on my personal facebook page and not on my business fan page.

No doubt I have given the application the wrong permission somewhere, but I have no idea where to go to change it. I would like it to only generate a post on my FB business page and not on my personal FB page.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me

[VisExp]

I was also curious about what triggers the mod to make a post on FB?

If you add products via Easy Populate will it trigger the mod?

[jamielife]

I have installed it and it seems to be working fine with one exception. I uploaded a test product to my website and the mod generated a post on my facebook page. The only problem is the post was generated on my personal facebook page and not on my business fan page.

This could be due to any number of things missed in the installation.
I would remove the Application from your fan page (you can do this from your applications page) go back and repeat the tutorial starting at step 8. (http://htmyell.com/autofacebook-for-zen-cart/)
also
1. make sure the $user_id in steps 11 and 18 are set to the id of your facebook fan page.
2. make sure you add your application to your fan page (step 13)
and
3. that you install the application to your fan page. (steps 14-16).

@VisExp the mod uses the facebook api and jquery to make the calls, you could (in theory) copy the code and (if needed) adjust the paths to the php folder and use it with Easy Populate if you know what vars they're using etc, however I don't know anything about Easy Populate, and if you arent sure what you're doing I wouldnt advise it.

@deathman2006: thanks for letting us know. Glad to hear it.

[VisExp]

This could be due to any number of things missed in the installation.
I would remove the Application from your fan page (you can do this from your applications page) go back and repeat the tutorial starting at step 8. (http://htmyell.com/autofacebook-for-zen-cart/)
also
1. make sure the $user_id in steps 11 and 18 are set to the id of your facebook fan page.
2. make sure you add your application to your fan page (step 13)
and
3. that you install the application to your fan page. (steps 14-16).

@VisExp the mod uses the facebook api and jquery to make the calls, you could (in theory) copy the code and (if needed) adjust the paths to the php folder and use it with Easy Populate if you know what vars they're using etc, however I don't know anything about Easy Populate, and if you arent sure what you're doing I wouldnt advise it.

@deathman2006: thanks for letting us know. Glad to hear it.

Thanks for the reply

I deleted the applications and started again. I figured out what I was doing wrong. A while back I had changed my FB to the name of my business instead of a number (when they offered the option of vanity URL's). I was using that name instead of the number as the user_id

Once I changed that to the number everything worked fine.

Thank you again for the mod and for your help with it

[alray10]

It is not showing price or discription on Facebook. Any one know how to fix this?

[jamielife]

So everything else works? Products name? the image is showing up on FB? etc?

For the price you could try changing line 144 (of update_product.php in admin/includes/modules) where you see:

$price = $products_price; 

to:

$price = $_POST["products_price"]; 

As for the discription, I'm not sure. Are there any special characters in the discription?

Maybe try changing line 147 where you see:

$prod_description = implode(" ", $_POST['products_description']); 

to:

$prod_description = $sql_data_array["products_description"]; 

Let me know if that helps

[deathman2006]

Ive tried that and it didnt work for me either
I still dont get the price on FB

Also going back to the problem of posts on both the business and personal fb walls, how do you make it post only on the business page?

[jamielife]

Working on the price/description problem now.

@deathman2006: it should only be posting to your business page. When testing I noticed if i didnt perform steps 13, 14, or 16 properly I would end up with mixed up personal/business pages. Also make sure you are using your business page's id for $user_id in both edited php files.

[zubenubi]

This could be due to any number of things missed in the installation.
I would remove the Application from your fan page (you can do this from your applications page) go back and repeat the tutorial starting at step 8. (http://htmyell.com/autofacebook-for-zen-cart/)
also
1. make sure the $user_id in steps 11 and 18 are set to the id of your facebook fan page.
2. make sure you add your application to your fan page (step 13)
and
3. that you install the application to your fan page. (steps 14-16).

@VisExp the mod uses the facebook api and jquery to make the calls, you could (in theory) copy the code and (if needed) adjust the paths to the php folder and use it with Easy Populate if you know what vars they're using etc, however I don't know anything about Easy Populate, and if you arent sure what you're doing I wouldnt advise it.

@deathman2006: thanks for letting us know. Glad to hear it.

I was just wondering if anyone had managed to make this mod work with easy populate yet? I don't see any more references to it in this thread after the above post.

when I'm adding products there is usually lots of them, doing them one by one wouldn't be fun for me so I really want to use easy pop, but I like the sound of this mod too - well done the developer

[lina0962]

First of all, thank you very much for this wonderful plug in!!

I noticed only new products are published on facebook and twitter. Is it possible to publish updated products as well, since I have a lot of sales in my store. Facebook and twitter followers will miss those sales.....

Also, whenever I make changes to the product description, I wish the updates can be published too.

Thank you for help!!