Facebook Comments

[Bluesplayer]

This is pretty interesting and could well boost sales - Facebook Comments

Take a look at this page and then click on the comments tag

puchipetwear.com/collars-amp-leads/dog-leads/crown-jewels-dog-lead

I am going to look into this later on and find out how it is implemented.

[leo]

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 http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/comments/ 

[Bluesplayer]

Thanks.

Looks pretty easy to implement too. Will see if I can do it properly this time and create a tab for it as well .

[Bluesplayer]

I have implemented this at the cost of reviews. Going by my experience with my others sites very few people will bother writing a review and really what is there to write about with regard to pet products? A comment is as good as usually and gets more attention. To convert the reviews to Facebook comments was quite easy. This is how I did it:

1. edited template layout.tpl and added this above the </body> tag:

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<div id="fb-root"></div>
<script>(function(d, s, id) {
  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];
  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;
  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;
  js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_GB/all.js#xfbml=1";
  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);
}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));</script>

2. then edited products.tpl by removing this:

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	    <?php if($review_status){?>
		<div class="review_write"><br><a href="<?php echo $write; ?>"><img src="catalog/styles/<?php echo $this->style?>/image/write.png" alt="<?php echo $text_write_short; ?>"></a><br><br>
		<a href="<?php echo $write; ?>"><?php echo $text_write; ?></a></div>
	    <?php } ?>

and replacing it with this:

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	    <?php if($review_status){?>
		<div class="review_write">

<?php $url="http://".$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; ?>

<div class="fb-comments" data-href="<?php echo $url; ?>/" data-width="470" data-num-posts="10"></div>

</div>
	    <?php } ?>

3. then I altered the language controller product.php file by altering 'tabs tab_write' to 'Comments' and also by altering 'reviews text_empty' by deleting the contents of.

What the above does is get the current url of the page and allocates it to the Facebook comment code which is needed to make the comments unique and also for them to work once posted to Facebook.

Working now . And Facebook is visiting the site a lot now too which might help with getting the site ranked.

My pages are developing nicely now with my new 'Sizes & Measuring' tab and now 'Comments':

apet4life.co.uk/diamond-quilted-leather-collars.html

Nice and neat plus informative .

UPDATE

To get the comment count showing next to the tab comment title I did this:

1. edited the product.tpl file where it shows this:

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<?php  if($review_status){

I added code so that it became:

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<?php

$url="http://".$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

 if($review_status){

2. then replaced this code:

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$Review_tabs = "<a><div class=\"tab_text\">".$tab_write." </div></a>";

with this:

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$Review_tabs = "<a><div class=\"tab_text\">".$tab_write." <fb:comments-count href=$url></fb:comments-count></div></a>";

Working on my site.

Example page:
apet4life.co.uk/dog-store/dog-coats/sherpa-leather-coat.html

[Bluesplayer]

I am trying to use this code:

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<fb:comments-count href=page url needed here/></fb:comments-count>

right next to the review tab (currently displaying as comments). This will then display the number of comments on that page. I have tried all ways with javascript and php but failed. The code I have used earlier on to get the page url won't work higher up the product.tpl file for some reason so I can't use this:

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<?php echo curPageURL(); ?>

.

I have tried messing with the product controller file by adding a function in there but that didn't work either. Any ideas?

[Brent]

I assuming the comments are on the URL you are looking at. Is the count listed? If you, you can get the count similar to how we get currency. Look in the library/currency and you will see the code that retrieves currency conversions.
The same method should work here for you.

[Bluesplayer]

I assuming the comments are on the URL you are looking at. Is the count listed? If you, you can get the count similar to how we get currency. Look in the library/currency and you will see the code that retrieves currency conversions.
The same method should work here for you.

I have fixed it now. Going to update this post with the solution.

Thanks.

[Bluesplayer]

Looking good I think - check it out:

apet4life.co.uk/dog-store/dog-coats/sherpa-leather-coat.html

[readsilk]

Great .
Thanks.

[paras]

Thanks for the info related to social media