Thanks Larsveld.. That helped.. :)

Ted S, I think if you add images to the tutorial, that would be of great help. :)

Instead of the star rating image, I'm seeing the rating in words !!

What could be going wrong?

A couple of issues

Adding a new category doesnt save the name, they all show up with a "O"

Also on the forum where it displays "Manufacturer" it shows a $ sign before the name

It's the boldest, biggest part of the mod thread and in red in the install file along with the two other mandatory steps. You really can't miss it -- unless you skip reading.

There's nothing more highlighted in the mod listing than this point. There's 5 quick points in the install guide, this one is in red and bolded. If people chose to skip reading the install guide no number of images will help --but thanks for directing people over to it again :D

For everyone... remember, a mod is a starting point, if you're playing set it & forget it, not checking the options, skipping your own customization, you are not setting yourself up for success. Don't settle for out of the box.

O or 0? Where do you see this?

Are you running 1.2.2 which fixes this issue?

The images are not in the path the page thinks they are in. Check the source, check where they were uploaded too and we can go from there.

the following phrase prodforums_mfrgd
Manufacturer: ${1}

needs to be changed to
Manufacturer: {1}

easy

and now its fixed

Also : please group the templates

does anyone know if this will work with 3.8?

4.0 and 3.8 have very different code structures so no, the mod will not work.

your in the v4 mod section so i guess not
plus the coding has changes since so it will not work unless you as the developer to
convert this to a 3.8 MOD

no harm in asking

Never a harm in a question but as an FYI, 99% of vB 4 mods won't work on vB 3.

Ted S

in short this is what i'd like
1) extra image section to show more of the product ( lets say 5 for now)
either located at bottom of thread or right side of product image

can this be done in next release ?

A mod is a starting point to add a new type of experience or function for your site... rather than waiting for a highly specific feature to happen, which is unlikely to meet your exact needs, you should work to customize things to meet your needs.

yeah i have already done the edits needed for it to suite our sites needs
i'll look into recoding it to do the addition bits i need then

this mod is great and been looking for something like this for a while

Has there been any thought into adding a field for tags? Or even better, since the products are essentially threads have you considered leveraging a way to add a field for the built-in tag field during entry of the products?

Since it's just threads they wouldn't be hard to add but how do you see them being used?

The rating images are all stars-black-* whereas the folder has only stars-pink-* and stars-green-* png images.

Guess the download package needs to be updated with the black png images.

Regards,
Sumith

Don't use the black image setting then :D

I am getting an error whenever I try to add categories.

Warning: mysql_real_escape_string() [function.mysql-real-escape-string]: Access denied for user 'weedwatc'@'localhost' (using password: NO) in [path]/admincp/productforums.php on line 973

Warning: mysql_real_escape_string() [function.mysql-real-escape-string]: A link to the server could not be established in [path]/admincp/productforums.php on line 973

The issue is with the connection between your forum and database. If this recurs while other functions work let me know.

Everything else works fine.

I have added products and reviews, and all went smooth.

This is the only problem I seem to be having with it.

The issue with the db call seems to be on mysql_real_escape_string which helps to insure the data being entered isn't malicious. I'm not inclined to remove that of course... Can you try again and see if it persists?

Just another way to provide a clearer search result and make the products themselves more complex.

Currently you can search for Mfg, Product Name, Price and Rating.

If you can use the tags, you can tag the product with other descriptors, and search against that.

Say, I have a product review forum of outdoor items for camping:

10 distinct Tents
5 distinct Coolers
16 distinct Sleeping Bags
4 distinct Stoves

All of these products are sold by multiple manufactuers. Right now, I can't currently search for "Sleeping Bags" to pull out all the sleeping bags, or I can't search for "blue" to provide me all of the blue products.


Just a thought.

Sorry it is a 0

It shows up in the ACP, also on the add product in the ACP, and also on the add product in the productforums.php page

On the product cat tab on the ACP the catagories titles show blank as well
I have added 5 categories
Also it wont let me delete any of the categories


It was my 1st install of this mod and was 1.2.2 - it seems you have both phrases in 1.2.2

I moded the Phrase and removed the $

Manufacturer: ${1}
Manufacturer: {1}

Its on line 1121 of the product_forums.xml

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Im having another little issue, when another member goes to add a review it says their post need to be more than 1 character

I have the min character set to 1 in the mod ACP

They are adding more than 1 character and still get a refusal

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Can I suggest an add new product link in the actual thread ?


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Im happy to help with testing to get this mod perfect, it has great potential

Cheers
SLY


Some images of the category issue

http://www.slydesigns.com.au/vb/1.jpg

http://www.slydesigns.com.au/vb/2.jpg

http://www.slydesigns.com.au/vb/4.jpg

Hi Ted, thanks again for the updates. I've still got a problem with this bit; the Next Page button shows at the bottom of the first 25 but when clicked it takes me back to the Manage Product Review Forums page instead of the next 25!

Cheers :)

Line 132 of the productforums.css

Has

font-family:verdana;arial;

I think it should be

font-family:verdana,arial;

Cheers
SLY

I'm having a problem; when i try to add a products with an user i will obtain this error:
"Oh great, you had to go and press THAT button. There goes the whole site. Just kidding... We had an issue posting your review, please try again or contact support and use code 164253."
forum setting have enabled "product review" in ACP
user group is allowed aswell to add product in that forum

i've also updated to the last version 1.2.2 without resolving it.
Any ideas on how fix it?

Hi I seem to be getting $ appearing just before the price etc...

Many thanks

Adam

Ok fixed just in the Phrase

Anyway to port this over to vb 3.8 ? This would be a very nice feature on our site

I have this installed however I may of perceived this as a different mod. What I am trying to do is allow members to start a new thread in a specific forum I have created called product reviews and have this plugin format the new thread so that they can enter the required fields as shown in your screenshots. I cant figure out how to do this? All I see is this mod allows the admin to create a new product ?help please

If you go into the AdminCP and look at the
Product Review Forum Settings, you'll see options to allow users to post products, and where those products go to.

Once you have the settings match what you want the product to do, go to http://www.yoursite.com/productforums.php and you'll see all of the products, on the right hand side, above the Search button, you'll see "Add New Product". The users will click that to add a product.

I have removed, resinstalled, repeated, and still keep getting the same error.

The categories end up similar to the screenshot posted where the category is 0, when i try to delete the category, it says invalid ID found.

I have tried that and this is what I get when I go here http://www.yoursite.com/productforums.php
"No product reviews matches your search. Try broadening your criteria or selecting another category."

Installed and somewhat working. There is an issue with the Product Category all showing up as (0) or (1) instead of the title.

Was under the impression that it would post full details in the applied forum setting which right now shows as "This is an empty post".

Have you created atleast one product in the backend?

Its just I can't get the product index to display when I click on the productforum enabled forum. I get the stock VB forum display. the only way for the index to display is to manually load productforum.php

Hope that explains it.