Facebook Share for AbleCommerce

Facebook is the second most-trafficked website in the world after Google and is the number one social media website. This makes Facebook one of the most attractive advertising platform for many business owners. Facebook integration makes your store promotion between Facebook users and their friends quick and easy. No need to send emails. Posts would automatically appear on the user’s wall.

The new Facebook Share control by Plugables allows the users on your AbleCommerce store to share products with their friends by posting the product information on their Facebook walls without them ever leaving your store.

The accompanying Facebook Login control allows the users on your store to login and logout of Facebook directly from your store.

You can see the Facebook Share for AbleCommerce in action at Plugables.com itself. On any product page you can click the f-share button and it will allow you to post that product”s information to your Facebook wall.

Using the Facebook Share and Facebook Login Controls

To use the Facebook share and Facebook login controls you need an API key of your Facebook application that will be used for this integration. We assume that you already know how to setup a Facebook application and where to get its API key, but if you don’t know you can simply login to your Facebook account and then go to online casino canada http://www.facebook.com/developers/createapp.php and create an application.

After creating the Facebook application, you will need to set its Connect URL property to the URL of your AbleCommerce store. Connect URL property is found on the “Connect” tab of your Facebook application and the API key can be found on the “Basic” tab.

After creating the Facebook application, setting its Connect URL, and getting its API key you are ready to use Facebook Login and Facebook Share controls on your store.

To enable Facebook Connect login/logout option for your store you can simply use the FBLogin control in your store header scriptlets as follows.

The Api Key used above is just for example. You should replace it with the ApiKey of your own Facebook application.

To enable Facebook share button on your product pages, use the FBShare control your product content scriptlets as follows.

Note that FBShare will work on product pages only.