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How to Create a Facebook Fan Page that Redirects to Wall after Liking |
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Written by Administrator
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Thursday, 03 November 2011 17:15 |
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This is a guide which will outline all the steps necessary to create a powerful facebook fan page. By having control over the fan page visitor's user experience you will be able to increase conversion rates of those visitors. What follows is a quick guide on how I went about creating a simple fan page that hosted a video for viewers to check out about the fanpage before they "Liked" the page. This is a fun project to undertake and should not be too difficult for those of you who have a basic knowledge of PHP.
Facebook Fan Page Guide:
1) Create PHP file which contains desired web page layout.
- max iframe width is 520px
2) Create a Facebook Fan Page
- this is done by the site admin on their facebook account
3) Create a Facebook App
- sign-up to be a facebook developer and create an app
-http://facebook.com/developers
4) Enter the required information on the App settings tab
5) Save changes and add app to fan page
- Click “View App Profile Page”
- Click “Add to My Page”
6) Open your App back up and add information to the page tab.
-this is where you tell facebook the path to your app file
7) You can now visit your page and you should see the app tab you specified available on the menu
8) From the Fan Page, click the “edit page” button and assign the app as the default page for site visitors
9) Include the following PHP code to redirect users to the wall after “Liking”
- this assumes that you installed the facebook.php files from the SDK <?php
require 'facebook.php';
$app_id = "GET FROM APP";
$app_secret = "GET FROM APP";
$facebook = new Facebook(array(
'appId' => $app_id,
'secret' => $app_secret,
'cookie' => true
));
$signed_request = $facebook->getSignedRequest();
if ($like_status) {
echo "You like us";
?>
<script language="javascript">
<!--
top.location.href="/INSERT FULL PATH TO YOUR WALL";
//-->
</script>
<?php
}
else {
echo "you don't like us yet...";
}
?>
I know the step-wise process at the beginning assumes that you have certain things already worked out with your Fan Page. Please feel free to leave a comment if you need some extra explanation on it, but the main point in this article is to show the script to redirect a user after they "Like" your page.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 03 November 2011 17:35 |
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How to Sync Picasa with Joomla |
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Written by Administrator
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Thursday, 03 November 2011 17:10 |
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Your Phoca Gallery comes pre-configured to suite your Joomla template. But there will be some slight customization required in order to sync with a Picasa album.
Here are the requirements to display Picasa albums:
1) Google account with active Google Picasa Web Albums application, see picasaweb.google.com
2) PHP function json_decode enabled on your server (this function is included in PHP 5.2.0 or latest version)
3) Parameter allow_url_fopen enabled in PHP ini settings.
If your server meets the requirements then it will work just fine. Go to the Component drop down menu of the administrative panel. Click on the item titled Phoca Gallery. Then navigate to the Control Panel option. Over to the far right of the page you will see an icon that looks like this:
Click on this Parameters icon and set Enable Picasa Image Loading parameter to Yes.
Set album and load images into your Google Picasa Web Albums application. Please note that album and images need to be accessible to the public.
To check this, click on the album and then navigate to the Actions dropdown menu. From this point, you need to click on the option titled “Album Properties.”
A shadowbox effect will take place as all of your albums open in a window. You can then toggle the album values from either a Public view or Only You. Choose Public for the albums you would like to display on the page and click the done button. Your Picasa album is now ready to be shared by Joomla.
Go back to the Phoca Gallery Control Panel. Click on the Categories tab. Then click on Create or Edit Category.
Now you are in Category editing.
Please take note of picasa’s URL for following field values...
Here is the typical URL structure for a Picasa album:
https://picasaweb.google.com/[user id]/[album name]
Now back to the Category Edits:
Category Title
User (in Picasa Settings) - username which you are using for your gallery on Picasa Web Albums application (or user ID).
Album Name (in Picasa Settings) - name of album which is included in your Picasa gallery (without # or without empty spaces, case sensitive - just copy the name from url bar in your browser)
Authentication Key - in case your album is not public, add the authentication key to access this album.
Once you have added a title and filled out the necessary Picasa Setting, click the load button at the top of the page. Now information about your images from your Picasa album will be loaded into Phoca Gallery. This can take some time (depends on number of loaded images). If you are not able to load all your images in script running period, you can use pagination. See Picasa Loading Pagination parameter in Phoca Gallery.
After loading of images, these images are displayed in Phoca Gallery administration (images list) and in frontend of your site. As the images are external images, information should be set in your Picasa gallery (name, geotagging, ...). Be aware clicking on Load icon will load the information from your Picasa gallery and modifications you have done in Phoca Gallery (regarding images - name, longitude, latitude, ...) will be lost.
As well, if the Picasa photo album is updated you need to log back into the administrative panel and re-load the album to view live updates.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 03 November 2011 17:35 |
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PID 51 | Brainstorm iPhone App Passive Income Stream |
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Written by Administrator
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Friday, 14 October 2011 23:41 |
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What is going on everybody? So for today’s episode we are going to look
at a very practical way that you could go about designing a passive income stream
online. So for this example I am going to be combining a couple of the different
topics that we have talked about and showing you just a simple way that you
could go about planning how to implement a process like this one and have a
brand new passive income stream read more...
If you would like to download this episode, you can do so by clicking here.
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Last Updated on Friday, 14 October 2011 23:46 |
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PID 50 | Time For Some Feedback |
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Written by Administrator
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Saturday, 01 October 2011 20:31 |
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So what is going on everybody? Can you believe this is actually episode number
fifty, time flies, doesn’t it? So over the past fifty episodes, you all
have had a chance to hear me talk and hear my voice and my opinions about various
topics that all ultimately relay back to passive income but today I want to
let your voice be heard so I can hear what you have to say about the podcast
through a quick feedback form. read more...
If you would like to download this episode, you can do so by clicking here.
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Last Updated on Monday, 03 October 2011 18:04 |
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PID 49 | Paypal Trick to Accept Credit Cards Anywhere |
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Written by Administrator
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Monday, 26 September 2011 16:32 |
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If you would like to download this episode, you can do so by clicking here.
Today I am going to share with you a recent little trick you can do with a manner of accepting credit cards from your customers. read more...
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