AutoFacebook [Support]

[DesH]

Installed AutoFacebook v2, seemed to install ok, but when i add a new product in zencart at the top it informs me that Facebook was successfully updated, but nothing showing on facebook. I'v uninstalled and re installed the app 3 times without any errors showing at all but can not get anything to show in facebook at all. Anybody any ideas what i can check to try and find whats going wrong.

[adnanrana]

I installed Version 2 a few days ago, and it is working perfectly. Also installed Autotweet, which is also working fine.

Thanks very much for this excellent modules and all your help.

Adnan Rana
PC Point Ltd

[WHOSYOURDADDY]

Installed AutoFacebook v2, seemed to install ok, but when i add a new product in zencart at the top it informs me that Facebook was successfully updated, but nothing showing on facebook. I'v uninstalled and re installed the app 3 times without any errors showing at all but can not get anything to show in facebook at all. Anybody any ideas what i can check to try and find whats going wrong.

If you mange several pages check them all to see which one it posted too!

If it is posting to the wrong page I have provided a temporary procedure to get the information you need earlier in this thread.
(post #156 on page 16 of this thread)

Jamielife is working an upgrade for those of us that manage several pages.

[jamielife]

Jamielift you nailed it. This code works great. The description is now sent to facebook.

Thank you for your on going effort to solve this problem. Does autoTwitter suppose to send the description to, if it is I have the same problem there. You can post you answer over there if you will. Thank You again.

YAY!!! Finally!

Thank you as well for being patient and working with me on so many experiments.

I installed Version 2 a few days ago, and it is working perfectly. Also installed Autotweet, which is also working fine.

Thanks very much for this excellent modules and all your help.

Adnan Rana
PC Point Ltd

Thanks for sharing it's always nice to hear everything worked right.

If you mange several pages check them all to see which one it posted too!

If it is posting to the wrong page I have provided a temporary procedure to get the information you need earlier in this thread.
(post #156 on page 16 of this thread)

Jamielife is working an upgrade for those of us that manage several pages.

I agree, odds are it's posting to another one of your pages, check that and follow WHOSYOURDADDY's instructions a page back to authenticate your new page.

[confusedforever]

Hi all, sorry to be a pain. Ive spent 4 hours on this module and Im about to give up. Ive search all over the website and read through all 18 pages but I seem to be the only one not able to find this fbcanvas file for facebook.

I know I must be missing something extremely simple but can someone please put me out of my misery!


6. Next click "Canvas." This is important: facebook uses your canvas callback url to pull content from a page on your server and bring it into your facebook app. Essentially it runs your app as a web page from within facebook. This is going to link to your fbcanvas folder included in the downloaded autoFacebook zip. However before we can upload the fbcanvas folder to your server we have to finish what we're doing now. fbcanvas will need to be uploaded to your public/www root folder. So we'll fill in where we plan to host our fbcanvas folder. So if my store is http://www.htmyell.com, when I upload fbcanvas to my server I'll upload it to the public root directory so that it's url will be http://www.htmyell.com/fbcanvas/. So my Canvas Page url will be "htmyell_backend" (since odds are that hasn't been taken) and my Canvas Callback URL will be "http://htmyell.com/fbcanvas/". Also while you're here make sure to click "FBML" instead of "iFrame."

[countrycharm]

Hi all, sorry to be a pain. Ive spent 4 hours on this module and Im about to give up. Ive search all over the website and read through all 18 pages but I seem to be the only one not able to find this fbcanvas file for facebook.

I know I must be missing something extremely simple but can someone please put me out of my misery!


6. Next click "Canvas." This is important: facebook uses your canvas callback url to pull content from a page on your server and bring it into your facebook app. Essentially it runs your app as a web page from within facebook. This is going to link to your fbcanvas folder included in the downloaded autoFacebook zip. However before we can upload the fbcanvas folder to your server we have to finish what we're doing now. fbcanvas will need to be uploaded to your public/www root folder. So we'll fill in where we plan to host our fbcanvas folder. So if my store is http://www.htmyell.com, when I upload fbcanvas to my server I'll upload it to the public root directory so that it's url will be http://www.htmyell.com/fbcanvas/. So my Canvas Page url will be "htmyell_backend" (since odds are that hasn't been taken) and my Canvas Callback URL will be "http://htmyell.com/fbcanvas/". Also while you're here make sure to click "FBML" instead of "iFrame."

There is no fbcanvas folder in AutoFacebook Version 2. That was AutoFacebook Version 1 that had it. If you have downloaded that version you need to grab Version 2.

[confusedforever]

It is the 2.0 that I have. What is the canvas bit for then on fb developers?

I did all the steps on the readme and all went ok but now im just stuck as there is no info on how to set the fb intergration up.

[countrycharm]

It is the 2.0 that I have. What is the canvas bit for then on fb developers?

I did all the steps on the readme and all went ok but now im just stuck as there is no info on how to set the fb intergration up.

If you followed these instructions there is no reason to mess around with the fbcanvas. It was use before the oauth 2.0 authorization to integrate with Facebook's new Graph API calls.

autoFacebook 2.0

By: Jamie Taylor
Htmyell.com What's New:

• Added oauth 2.0 authorization to integrate with Facebook's new Graph API calls.
• Added Zen Cart integrated error checking and status alerts.

Requirements:

• Zencart 1.3.9+
• php 5+
• cURL
• JSON

License:

This Zen Cart modification is licensed under the GNU General Public License: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt Getting Help:

Help is available via the Zen Cart forums @ http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=153528 or at http://htmyell.com/autofacebook-2-0

Installation:

New Users:

1. Log in to your facebook account and go to http://www.facebook.com/developers and click the "+ Set up New Application" button.

2. Name your application. I suggest something like "MyStoreDomain.com" but it can be whatever you like. Agree to the terms and click "Create Application." On the next page, if required fill in the security check and click "Submit."
Note: if an error occurs simply go back you should see your application was created anyway. If so, click "edit settings" otherwise, try again.

3. Now you should see your new Application settings. You can come back and edit these later though it's not required (I'd suggest atleast uploading an Icon image once everything is working).

4. For now we need to click "Web Site" on the left and edit our "Site URL" and our "Site Domain".
The Site URL is simply your store's web address followed by a '/' forward slash. So it should look something like "http://mystore.com/"
Your Site Domain is just your domain name 'dot' whatever and could look like "mystore.com". No "http://", no "www.", and no "/"

5. Now click "Facebook Integration" on the left. Towards the bottom you should see "Installable to?". Uncheck "Users" and add a check next to "Facebook Pages" instead.

6. Now click "Save Changes". If all goes well you should see your app on the My Applications page, along your app settings. We'll need to use the "Application ID" and "Application Secret".

7. Now that we're done with our app open up the included facebook_authorization.php file and edit lines 4 and 5 with your App information.
Note: facebook_authorization.php is a simple file that we're going to upload to our server and run from our browser to authorize our application to do things for us like post to our page's wall. After if gives us certain information it is no longer needed and should be deleted.
So on line 6 where you see: $app_location = "http://yoursite/facebook/facebook_authorization.php"; This is simply the URL to where you plan to upload facebook_authorization.php. I suggest making a temporary folder on your folder called "facebook". However, where ever you plan to upload it, it must be on the same server you specified in Step 4 and make sure you reflect it's location on line 6. Once you're done editing lines 4-6 save and upload it to where ever you specified in your $app_location.

8. Once uploaded run the file in your browser and you will be taken to facebook's Permission Request prompt to authorize your app. Click "Allow."

9. You should now see a Success page with your page's ID and Page's Token. We need those for our next step.
Note: if you see a period (or any other punctuation) at the end of your page's Token consider it part of the token.

10. Open up the included update_product.php file in the admin/includes/modules folder and edit lines 90 through 97 with your Application Info and the Info given from the last step (Step 9). Note: $store_url needs to be the full url to your store without the trailing ('/'). So it should look like "http://www.mystore.com" or "http://www.mystore.com/store". Alos: lines 96 and 97 can be personallized or just left as they are.

11. Now upload the the new update_procut.php and the facebook folder to your store's admin/includes/modules folder on your server (or just drag the admin folder from autoFacebook2 folder to your zencart root directoy)

12. Now when you add a new product to your store your facebook will automatically be updated with the new product info. Note: you may now delete the facebook_authorization.php uploaded in step 6 as well as the temporary folder from your server.
Existing Users:

If all is fine with your old version of autofacebook, there really isn't any major improvements with this version. This version mainly address facebook's changing of the user authorization process for people who did not create their application before july 1st. However if you want to upgrade be aware of the following:

• You will have to create a new Application since the methods have changed
• I am unable to test this on any live sites running the old version of autoFacebook so to be safe and ensure maximum compatibility:

1. Delete the "facebook" folder in your admin folder.
2. Start at step 1 for new users.
Adding to autoFacebook to autoTweet.

to add to autoTweet just complete steps 1 - 10 but istead of uploading update_product.php copy lines 89 - 132 of the autoFacebook 2.0 update_product.php and paste them above line 90 (above "// start autoTweet 3.0") of your current update_product.php Adding autoTweet to autoFacebook

copy lines 90 - 157 of your autoTweet update_product.php and paste them just below line 132 (where you see "//end of autoFacebook") For more info and to give feedback check the forums.
Hope ya like it
Jamie

[confusedforever]

Sorry I am not brilliant with facebook. I have followed all the instructions very very slowly (I started this about 5 hours ago).

I now have the app on facebook and looking at the tabs that say about, website, facebook intergration etc.

In the intergration, the profile tab and canvas sections are not filled in. Do I need to fill them in? If so, with what?

Also, I have added the app to one of my fanpages but it doesnt do anything. I do not understand how the new products on my zen can get to my facebook pages?

I really am totally lost with this.

[WHOSYOURDADDY]

Sorry I am not brilliant with facebook. I have followed all the instructions very very slowly (I started this about 5 hours ago).

I now have the app on facebook and looking at the tabs that say about, website, facebook intergration etc.

In the intergration, the profile tab and canvas sections are not filled in. Do I need to fill them in? If so, with what?

Also, I have added the app to one of my fanpages but it doesnt do anything. I do not understand how the new products on my zen can get to my facebook pages?

I really am totally lost with this.

Maybe I can help you.
You have your application created so the hard part is done. Yea Right whatever you say buddy LOL Actually it is


My first suggestion don't make it any harder than necessary - Yea easy for you to say buddy LMAO

Starting with the web site profile what you see is at the top is the application ID and the application secret then directly below is site URL and Site domain

this is simple in site URL copy and paste the URL that you see in your browser when you go to your zen cart

example: http://www.yoursite.com or http://www.yoursite.com/cart/ that is it nothing more nothing less

next site domain this is the name of your domain
example yoursite.com that is it no http no www just the name of your domain

Sweet your now done with web site tab - moving on to the next tab this is even more simple since the hard part has already been taken care of in the web site tab.

Facebook Integration Tab the only thing you do and I repeat and stress the only thing you do is go to the very bottom where it says "Installable to" and uncheck the user and check facebook page

Thats it your done now click save changes

Wow pretty cool right you just did your first app!!!

Yes then add it becuase you need to make sure you have admin privileges to post to your page

Now go back to your editor and make sure that you have the update_product.php with all the correct information as outlined by Jamielife

Save that and upload to your server.

Setup a test cat and create a test product and attach an image to the product.

When you add the new product what happens is the zen cart calls the update_product.php the new autofacebook code talks to the facebook application and says hey buddy how you doing - the FB application says sweet I know you what you got for me - zen cart then instructs the application to post this new information to the page that has been authorized to accept it.

If everything went well then you will see the New Product posted to your page!!

Hope this helps this helps you out - if not I just confused the heck out of you LOL