Re: Facebook Login Connect

Hi there,

Is anyone successfully using a facebook login connect module with hikashop?

I'm getting some disgruntled emails about the login process and wondered if I could make things easier for the end user?

Thanks in advance.

Working like a charm. Thank you!

I checked out the documentation for facebook connect. There are several extensions will put facebook connect on your site. Will there be a conflict if an extension is used other than JFBConnect? The reason I ask is because I'm on a very limited budget for site launch and I would like to add this feature (Facebook Connect). Is there something special about the JFBConnect extension that is necessary to work with Hikashop? Please advise. Thank you

With JFBConnect, it adds the option on the login page as well as the registration form. I noticed that if you click the Facebook login that it lets you do this and then flips you to their page where it asks you to register with the site. I checked the user accounts and it did record the new account in Joomla from logging in with Facebook, which is good. The problem is that it's confusing from the user side because it still asks for you to register or login before checking out. Am I missing something or a setting? If they use the Facebook connect, it should only ask for the remaining account information such as address, etc. since their account is created by using the Facebook connect. Let me know your thoughts on this. Thanks.

Hi,

I know I'm late to the party, but I found the following plugin that will also work as for Facebook login:

storejextensions.org/extensions/instant_facebook_login.html

It's cheaper than JFBConnect (and doesn't have a frustrating subscription fee), but I felt the feature list was still pretty extensive.

The only issue I've run into is that my checkout process has 4 steps and when you log in with a facebook account in Step 2, I can't seem to get it to load back into step 2 (it kicks back to the beginning of the checkout process).

I did a lot of searching around, so I thought I'd share my findings here.

Hello,

Can you show us some screenshots of how you configured your checkout workflow via "Hikashop->System->Configuration->Checkout" ? So that we can have more information to understand your issue ? Thank you.

Kind regards,
Mohamed Thelji.

Thanks for offering to look into this. Below is a break down of the setup.

This is where the facebook login module is loaded on Step 2:

Once a user has logged in they are kicked back to Step 1:


I have set the login module to redirect to the Menu item "Checkout" which links to the hikashop checkout menu - alternatively setting this to "Default" redirects to the main shop page once a user has logged in:


This is a breakdown of the checkout workflow:


This is how I call the Facebook Login module into the checkout - using "modules anywhere" to add the module to "checkout/sub_block_loginn_form.php":


Any assistance would be appreciated.

thanks,

Hi,

Thank you for the suggestion.

I set up the URL link to direct to :
/adelaide-flower-delivery/checkout/cid-2.html
But when the page reloads it goes to a broken link:
/?Itemid=640
(for some reason it doesn't go to the URL and instead tries to load the menu item ID).

So, unfortunately, that did not resolve the issue.

Hi,

Below is a link to the current site (it's still under development, so isnt technically "live" yet)

www.lilywest.com.au/new/

I tried redirecting to adelaide-flower-delivery/checkout/cid-1.html with the same error result.

Thanks,

Hi,

Thanks again for the suggestion. I tried both "/new" and the full url " www.lilywest.com.au/new/adelaide-flower-.../checkout/cid-2.html " but both results in the same broken "/?Itemid=640" url return.

I havent tried placing the site outside the subfolder yet ( I can try this once the site is live) I might also contact the facebook login developers and see if they have information on the topic.

I have unblocked Europe from the site, so you are free to investigate if you like.

thanks again for your help.