Topic-icon VirtueMart and comments management

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11 years 2 months ago #30833 by davfis
As I understand it, comments can be attached to any content... does this include VirtueMart products? Also, where are the comments stored? Are they stored locally on in the database on the website server, or are they part of facebook.com? Is it possible for the website administrator to remove comments that are inappropriate? Would users who posted comments be able to edit and/or delete their comments?

Also, I noticed that when I created an account using my facebook credentials that it gave me a username "davfis". Is this something the user can edit and/or change? Also, would they be able to login using their e-mail address as well as user name or facebook?

Thanks!
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11 years 2 months ago #30861 by alzander
You can easily add a comment box to any part of your site by either adding the JFBCComments module to the page(s) you want it to display. For more flexibility, you can add the {JFBCComments} tag directly into a Virtuemart template file (like the Flypage) to show it automatically on each product.

As for the Comments themselves, they are not stored locally. They are all hosted on Facebook.com. You do have the ability to moderate comments though and hide any 'bad' posts from your users or mark them as spam to help Facebook weed out bad users. Facebook also has a great spam engine which generally prevents spam anyways though.

There is no way for a user to edit their own comments, but they can delete a comment they've made. That's simply a Facebook stipulation. They don't want a full conversation to ensue around a comment just to have it changed later to have a different meaning.

For registration, there are many options. You can choose the automatic registration route, used on this site, to automatically create an account. The username can be selected to be the first 3 letters of the first/last name, like here; the full first.last name; the email address of the user; or the FB User ID (a string of numbers). You can also choose normal registration where the user can set their own username/password at registration. It's up to you on whether you want forms or quick registration.

Once the account is created, the username can be used to login using Joomla or they can login through Facebook when they return.

Hope that explains,
Alex
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11 years 2 months ago #30925 by davfis
Alex--thank you for your thorough and quick reply. I think that I will use JFBConnect for the login/registration process (especially since it sounds like it integrates with VirtueMart's user profile also), and decide what to do with the commenting later. I do have a commenting system currently in place, so will have to weight the merits of changing. Your feedback has helped make that easier as it clarified many of the questions I had. Thank you!

Dave
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11 years 2 months ago #30946 by alzander
Dave,
No problem, and glad we could help. As for VM integration, yes, we do have a profile plugin that can import a user's information from Facebook into their LinkedIn profile already.

Hope that helps, and we look forward to having you as a customer.

Thanks,
Alex
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