Hey Sal, we'll have a test site using vbulletin3 hopefully up by tomorrow, so I will play with that, and get it working on there. I'll keep you updated on that.

I was wondering if you have a vendor list. I'm in a small market and before installing would like to see if relevent products will show up. Thanks.

Hey morrow, you can go to either of these sites to lookup vendors that we use

Prosperent Merchant List

http://api.prosperent.com/api/mercha...ppos&dBug=true

The first list will show you all the merchant we use while the second one will show you a specific merchant; just change Zappos to the merchant name.

OK... So I signed up and installed... figured what the hell... So my forum resides in http://www.njflyfishing.com/vBulletin

I placed the code into my Navbar template and made the necessary change. It shows exactly where it's supposed to. Hover my mouse over it and it points to http://www.njflyfishing.com/product.php rather than http://www.njflyfishing.com/vBulletin/product.php.

Attempted to copy the files to the root of my site but that just comes up with another error.

I'll leave it installed for now to see what you guys come up with.

Thanks.

No problem, I've got you covered.

open productSearch.php, and on line 44 change
to

Then it will send it to the right page. :)

Perfect.. Thanks, I'll give it a shot.

We have merchants in pretty much every vertical you can think of. For fishing we work with large vendors like Bass Pro Shops, all the way down to the smaller shops.

Remember, we have over 50 million products from more than 3,000 retailers. We work with huge names like Best Buy, Zappos, QVC, REI, Overstock, Auto Anything, Kohl's, Cabelas, Gap, Banana Republic, and on and on and on :). If it is sold online, we probably have it in our system.

Has anyone made any money yet?

Let me give you (and others a few tips). Most of my sales that were made during testing came from actual organic searches from search engines, not from the members of my own forum. I would start by promoting the feature on your site to your users. Mention that it is a way for them to help support your site since you earn a commission on every purchase. This goes a long way since members are often ready and willing to help support their favorite forum.

Next, get some organic traffic coming into the search pages. For this, you need to get some backlinks to some of the search result pages. This is as simple as displaying a few search url's in your signature on your forum, and encouraging your users to do that same.

We may also be able to create a side block that perhaps stores and shows the most popular searches? Doing this has the benefit of drawing attention to the search, but also gets some links in which helps get pages indexed and ultimately leads to sales.

Last but not least, be patient. It took me several weeks to start getting search traffic to my product search. After that, sales started to roll in slowly, and now I get several per day and have almost 7 million pages indexed. It went from my forum struggling to make money to being quite the money maker for me, but it took time :).

I just finished making this add-on work on vBulletin3. The thread is located at Prosperent Product Search vb3

Great! It's on my to-do list to add to my other sites. I'm only waiting to see it work on my busiest forum...

Maybe this setting should be put into the AdminCP of vBulletin instead of a file edit...

That's actually a good idea. I'll include that in my next update which is coming soon. Thanks for the suggestion, they are always welcomed. :)

Installed, the logo image is bigger compare to Navbar, can you reduce the logo size? Also search box.

Image is attaching.

Thanx in advance.

G!

Facing problem with product Search; Please check http://www.offwalk.com/product.php

Thanx in advance.

G!

My next update will actually solve that problem, at the moment it needs to have a query passed to it, for example, product.php?q=shoes. I should be able to release that update here in a little while, but most users should not be getting to the product page without first having passed a query through the search bar.

And as for the image, let me see if we can come up with a different image design that might work better for you. The current one can't be shrunk any more without losing quality. For the time being I would set the logo_image to hidden in the AdminCP.

Great and thanx for it.

I am trying it for few days, let's see how it works and the reactions of our members needs to know :)

Sorry for not informing, prosporent logo and search are over lapping the social network icons, they are very important for the back link points of view, please check that also.

Thanx in advance.

G!

Sal, looking over your forum, you should look at adding the search template to the prosperent template as well. It appears that you have it in the forumhome instead of the header which is fine, but if someone is on a search result page, there is no way for them to search for another product or refine their search. :)

Hey, we got a smaller image coming out in this next update. You'll have the ability to set whichever one you'd like to visible, or you can set both to hidden. I'm almost done with it, just have a few fixes to do. So look for it soon. :)

Alright, just released version 1.3. This one has a lot of goodies in it. Facets, more Admin Options, optimized code. Just all around awesomeness. :D

You now have a choice between two image sizes a 167 x 50 and a 100 x 30.

You can control the API limit, Pagination Limit, and whether Facets are enabled or disabled in the options.

Finally, if your forum has an additional directory, you can now put that in the Admin Options and not have to change it in the code, just remember the leading slash, ie. '/vb4'

As always, I welcome any suggestions, and if you see any bugs in this code, let me know and I will fix them ASAP.

I just "upgraded". Here's what happened. My search box for this product disapeared. I have the code "{vb:raw includedphp} in my NAVBAR template because I don't want it in my header, and that's about it.

There are no admin options anywhere and that's about it.

Other than that, no other issues.

Did you update the plug-in code since you put it into a different template?
at the bottom of the plug-in code it says pre register, in that change header to NAVBAR, and its case sensitive.

Propsperent search is over lapping 'Advance Search' of forum.

Image attached.

Note: Updated with latest version 1.3

G!

You just need to adjust the location you are placing the search bar in your template.

I'm getting an error when adding it to my main boards

I have left it in the header even though it is still failed if you need to see it.

http://www.greenromproject.com

So it seems as though its not able to find the productSearch.php file, did you put that into the directory? As well as the other files that were inside the .zip?

Thanx for support, as per your PM, it's working fine.

But due to search box size, social networking icons are overlapping, can we reduce the box size and the logo also?

The image is attaching.

Rgds,

G!

LOL Thanks for the help. I used my wife's tiny netbook to upload so the filezilla upload screen wasn't allowing me to see the correct "root dir" so I uploaded it to the wrong place. Thanks :)

I would like to place the search box into the location I marked (see img)
Where should I put my code?

Thanks

Sorry for the late reply, I was out sick yesterday, from what I can tell its going to be the navbar_link template, which is under the Navigation/ Breadcrumb Templates.

Just remember to change the template name inside the plugin where it is pre-registering the template. Change header to navbar_link.

Hope that helps. :)

where i can edit this "Search Products..." for other?

On line 77 of productSearch.php look for Just change the Search Products... inside the quotes to whatever you'd like. :)

It would be a great idea.

Sorry not properly understand, could you please explain it in detail.

Thanx in advance.

G!

When I click search results page 2, it jumps back to the forum home.

ex:
http://www.puddingbuy.com/forums/pro...hp?q=canon+S95

any idea?

Thanks

K, found the issue. I forgot a slash. Sorry about that, I'll re-update the files, all you'll need to do is update the products.php.

Or if you just want to change it in your current stack. Open products.php and go to line 336. Look for

And change that to
Sorry about this, anyone who has an additional directory will want to fix this, or install the new products.php file. I am very sorry for that.

Perfect. Thank you

I can not pages for searches, it shows only one page.

Can you please check it.

G!

All this is is an AdminCP option that I gave you access to. You can set the limit inside your AdminCP, look for Api_Limit under Prosperent Settings and change it to what you'd like, I'd suggest going no larger than 250. The default is set to 10, that's why only one page of results was showing.

Sorry, was not aware, set at 99.

G!

You're fine, just thought I should probably put it on here as well in case someone else had a similar issue. :)

Nice, but for us that run forums outside the US, any good for us? Many of the stores does not ship overseas. (Europe in my case).
You have any non-US sites that runs your app?