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10 years 9 months ago #34950 by Fintan
Hello, I have a client who has a fashion store. His facebook page is very well received and he runs weekly specials on one or two products. What he would like to do is when a visitor on his facebook sees a special that she likes she can click on a link that will take her to his joomla site and log her in with her facebook account and place the product in a cart. From here she can make her purchase. I already have Vmart on his page so we would probably be using vmart, unless there is another option.

Any pointers are greatly appreciated Thanks
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10 years 9 months ago #34984 by alzander
Fintan,
There's no way to automatically log the user in when they come to your site. The user must approve your application to be able to import their profile information, like email address or location.

So, while you can redirect the user to their page, they'd have to click the Login with Facebook button to register/login to your site. JFBConnect would make that process simpler as, once they click the button and approve your app, JFBConnect could create their Joomla account, import whatever information from their Facebook profile into VM that you want, and then automatically log them in. With that, it's a very easy/no-forms registration process and even redirect them to their cart.

You'd have to code the feature to automatically add a product to the guests cart when they are redirected there from Facebook.

I hope that helps explain, but if you have any questions, just let me know.

Thanks,
Alex
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10 years 9 months ago - 10 years 9 months ago #34992 by Fintan
I posted a topic on the ยป JFBConnect Joomla 2.5 Support forum:
www.sourcecoast.com/forums/jfbconnect/jf...ent-and-joomla-vmart

When replying to an answer I get a "access denied error".

Was that the wrong place to post this topic?

By the way the answer is this:

USER wrote: Hi Alex,
thank you for your response.

JFBConnect would make that process simpler as, once they click the button and approve your app, JFBConnect could create their Joomla account, import whatever information from their Facebook profile into VM that you want, and then automatically log them in. With that, it's a very easy/no-forms registration process and even redirect them to their cart.

Okay, that takes care of part of the question.
You'd have to code the feature to automatically add a product to the guests cart when they are redirected there from Facebook.

I am not a coder ;) How would I go about that?

Or, is it possible to do the following?
- Set up a specials category in vmart
- Add the specials products to vmart and feature them under a specials menu item.
- Export the special products to facebook
- When a customer sees a special she likes on facebook and clicks on the buy link she will be redirected to the specials page on the homepage, add the product to her cart and can log in as described by you.

Thank you again

Last edit: 10 years 9 months ago by Fintan.
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10 years 9 months ago #34996 by alzander
I'm honestly not sure why you couldn't post to this topic earlier. It was likely just a hiccup in our system. I've merged your post that you made in the other thread back into this one just to keep things together.

As to your other question about what's possible, I'm not really too familiar with Virtuemart. What you say sounds perfectly plausible though. Depending on how you are showing them in Facebook, you may be able to direct the user directly to the actual item, instead of the "Specials" category. From there, they can add that item to their cart on their own. Going to the "Specials" page has some benefits that they may see something else as well.

Once you get the user to your site and they add something to their car, JFBConnect should make things easier. You can configure JFBConnect to automatically register the user and then send them directly to another page (their cart) or configure it to leave them on the same page they clicked the button on.. presumably the last item they were looking at. From there, they can choose to go to the cart on their own, or continue shopping.

I hope that helps explain, but if you need anything else, just let us know. You definitely should be able to post to this thread.. if not though, feel free to post anywhere again and we'll sweep it back in here :)

Thanks,
Alex
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