It's never even been mentioned before so sorry but no info...

I'm not familiar with GARS in the least so if you can explain how it worked [were there items, clustered reviews, single reviews, etc] I can get more specific.

GARS basically added extra fields and custom templates to a thread on a per-forum basis. It allowed you to have multiple numeric rating fields for a product (associated with a single thread). Each thread would be the "parent", and subsequent posts could either review the product by rating the various options, or just make an ordinary post.

For example, we had Martial Arts School reviews broken down with ratings such as:

*Class Size
*Equipment
*Facility
*Striking
*Grappling

All 1-10 ratings.

It was basically an overlay onto existing threads, and had options to customize the layouts of said threads. You could either use it as a Reviews, or an Article system, by customizing those meta-templates, and then assigning them to individual forums.

Here's the only screenshot of GARS that I have left; it's from a sidebar added to a forum thread displaying the ratings.

http://www.bullshido.net/images/ads/reviews.jpg

On a personal note, it boggles my mind why this hasn't been remade or even incorporated into VB itself. When we upgraded to 4.0, we essentially turned thousands of reviews into ordinary forum threads, because we lost GARS.

Ted are there any upgrade instructions? I am running the previous version or previous two version. Basically the version before you added images on the view forum bit lol

Upload all the files. Import the new product file. And if desired run the image sync routine in the AdminCP options. That's it.

And oh, if you have modified templates prepare to merge them.

I can't find the image sync...?

Ok I managed to get the image sync thing to work, however I don't see any images on the view forum bit, it looks as if it did before.

http://www.midwiferyonline.co.uk/productforums.php

http://www.midwiferyonline.co.uk/forums/7-The-Library

I have now lost all my images as I deleted them from the folder then tried to resync, how ever it didnt recreate the images.

I am trying to upload new ones but jus get this error -

Product Review Forums

Warning: imagejpeg() [function.imagejpeg]: Unable to open '../productimages/502d2feb1f375_full.jpg' for writing: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/prodforums_uploader.php on line 54

Warning: imagejpeg() [function.imagejpeg]: Unable to open '../productimages/502d2feb1f375_thumb.jpg' for writing: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/prodforums_uploader.php on line 54

Warning: imagejpeg() [function.imagejpeg]: Unable to open '../productimages/502d2feb1f375_small.jpg' for writing: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/prodforums_uploader.php on line 54

Your settings are incorrect and the script can not create images. Double check the path for where images should go [you need to work from root so /home/mysite/forum/products/ or such] and set the folder to 0755 writeable.

Once that's complete and you can upload one image re-run the importer which will try to salvage the old images [if not I can show you a query to get them back and then let you import then again].

Ok the directory route is right now and I have uplaoded one image which is showing on the product itself and and the productsforum.php. However the image hasn't replaced the forum icons.

I have ran the image sync and ma missing all previous images so if you could give me that query, that would be much appreciated.

Hey there. I've been reading through and couldn't find the answer to this question.

Right now, the product reviews are sorted by the date the thread/product was created. How do I set the forum to show by latest reply and how do we get productforums.php to show a list of categories and then latest reviews below that? (Or just latest reviews?)

The first issue requires a hack as [currently] we're looking at the product table rather than the reviews one. You could either add a column for last reviewed or change the table query around to do a JOIN statement.

The second change also requires a quick hack to the code to add in the drop down list. You can basically copy how the manufacturer dropdown works or wait for the next release as this sounds like it's worth being added in.