We handle all support in the thread so other members can chime in with their thoughts and see what's happening with the mod. Thanks for your understanding.

What XML file exactly are you talking about?

Is it 100% safe to reinstall the product over top of itself so that it would install into all skins? I can't find how to check if the hooks are in the mobile theme.

The main product files modification xml.

Changing that applies across the board but you can always adjust, see what it does and adjust back.

Filename, please?

product_forums.xml

Perhaps this is why I'm so confused - I don't have a product_forums.xml anywhere on my servers.

Ah, the product install XML file. So I need to put the echo statements in there, reinstall the product and cross my fingers that it won't mess up anything in my existing installation in the other theme?

You certainly don't have to but it's an effective way to debug where the issue is. If the echo statements show up, you know the mod is getting loaded and it's a problem with templates rendering them out.

Yeah, the plugin doesn't seem to be getting called at all from the mobile theme. Do you have any idea how I'd check to see if the hooks are there in this theme, and if not how to manually add them?

To be clear, are you seeing any output from the echo statements (if not, where did you add them)?

What mobile theme are you using? The default vB one?

I wrapped it around the XML in product_forums.xml and reinstalled the product into vbulletin. It appeared to update something in all skins and I saw no errors (I also saw nothing get echo'ed back - but it went by all very fast in the install).

Links in the product review forum still do not click through to the corresponding threads. It is not the default vb mobile style, it is another mobile style designed for vB Suite 4.1.x.

It's not quite that simple... to test you'd have to add it to varrious plugin routines inside the xml script so that echo statements are invoked as you load the pages you want to test (for example, you could echo back a test on the thread / product page or on the forum / product list).

As for how to fix it, I'd still suggest starting with the debugging to insure the mod is getting fired up but that's probably the case which means template hooks become the issues. For that you need to open up a default vB template and your mobile skin's (i.e. SHOWTHREAD which holds the product information) and see which hook variables have been removed.

If that sounds like greek, as the mod author if they ported over all the standard hooks into their SHOWTHREAD and FORUMDISPLAY templates.

Got it figured out. I dug through the plugins and traced everything back to the following, in case anyone else runs into the same issue. Tom, you were correct in that the template hooks are not there by default in mobile styles. I also had to manually create each of the prodforum_* templates in our mobile style for some reason, but that's not a big deal.

The plugin renders the product information at the top of the showthread template into a template called showthread_above_posts. I looked for the hook inside of the SHOWTHREAD template in the mobile theme and it's just not there, so I added it in as follows:

{vb:raw template_hook.showthread_above_posts}

All is well!

Fantastic!

How's everything else looking in the mobile theme? You can do a light version of the product page if you use it...

Hello Ted,

Thank you for this great mod, but I have a problem when sending an image in PNG, the image sent is no longer transparent but with a black background.

How to fix this please?

Thank you again!

That's up to the settings of GD on your server as it resizes the images... Does it happen elsewhere in vB?

No problem elsewhere, only on this mod :(

I have Chevereto and no problem

Hrm.

It's something in the image upload script but from the looks of it, could be one of a number of factors. We'll have to play around with it this weekend to see if we can force transparency on all GD setups.

Ok thank you,

In the meantime it is possible to display white instead of black? :)


Can be here ? :p

You can certainly try shifting the function around to see if it helps.

Functions stackoverflow shows people using for transparency:
imagealphablending($pathname, false); imagesavealpha($pathname, true);

A little too complicated for me :D

Hi guys

Thanks for creating this brilliant addon - working like a charm :)

Just got a very easy question (i hope) but how do I change the currency from $ into ??

Or even make it user-selectable?

Thanks! :)

Found it in Phrases :)


However, is there a mod to make it a dropdown?

Nope.

Hello, how to display the list alphabetically?

here: forum/productforums.php

Thanks ! :)

Hack the script and change the query to ORDER BY title ASC as default

Line ? :p

It's ok thanks !

Sorry for the delay, had other things to do prior to addressing this.

This fix worked. Thank you!

New issue though. The 'matches' page that lists the reviews of a particular product, the page you are viewing when you click the 'reviews' area of a product in the product list, it doesn't load properly.

The reviews show 'outside' the body of the main forum, almost like there's a missing div tag, or some sort of issue like that I can't figure it out.

Like if you view, yourforum.com.com/productforums.php?do=matches&productid=4

it's layed out wrong for some reason.

It's correct here, yourforum.com/productforums.php just not on the matches page to view reviews.

I tried to open both templates side by side to see what could be missing from the matches one but I couldn't figure it out. I suppose it's possible the issue is in the productforums.php file itself but I'm not sure.

A fix for this would be appreciated.

edit; I'd also like to know if there's any simple way, or known websites we can get this xml file to import mass products from? If a website's RSS feed is in xml format, is there a way to use that?

I mean I definitely don't have any scraping software to go through websites, compile all the exact data I need them format it into an XML file I can import into the product :P Any help on this would be appreciated by myself and many others I'm sure.

Soo any tips of advice on getting our hands on an XML sheet like I mentioned in my above comment?

I'm not seeing this in our test build but will take a deeper look later in the week to be sure there aren't any hanging tags in the template.

Many vendors can provide XML feeds of their products which can be used or reformated through a simple dataset tool to match the right field names and ordering.

Of course there's no central repository for product data out there so you'd have to ask each individually.

Ted,
I am running VB 4.2 and have been getting the same error:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2013/07/25.jpg

Ted,
I am running VB 4.2 and have been getting the same error:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2013/07/25.jpg

Do you have any reviews on that or any other products? Have there been reviews which were removed?

Really love the idea of this hack but the buttons look really rough on our forum.

Can someone good at coding tell us where/how to change the template(s) so that the review button is moved from up top, to the side?

This is how it should look when finished (see screenshot).

Quick Update;

So many issues with this hack, where to begin?

For starters, none of the 'manage' buttons work. They show my test review, but won't let me manage it. When you click on it it says no review exist, even though one is on the forum.

Also, there doesn't seem to be a way to add images. Yes the image directory path was typed in.

These are just the beginning of problems we're seeing. Not sure if these issues are 4.2.1 related or hack related, or both.

And yes of course we tried to read the instructions (see screenshot) but it's kind of hard to read black text on a black background :rolleyes:

Very disappointed :(

Just found yet another issue: Now Activity Stream does't work at all. All we get is errors. Hopefully vB can fix it. Time to delete this.

Sorry the addon was not for you... best of luck with your site!

So am I.

I did fella, and you can still see the menu in the themes?

Admin side or user?

You must be doing something wrong, missed a file when uploading them or similar, it took a while for me to figure out, but I followed the instructions from the link above, and it's working perfectly.

I'm using 4.2.1 as well