Major Additions - Product Review Forums ? Research, Review & Compare Items

Version 1.4.0 has been released to remove the giftery / list it integration of the addon now that service has been discontinued. No upgrade is needed though there have been a few other bug changes since 1.3.5.

Finding Feedback Can be Like a Needle in a Haystack

The more your forum grows, the more of a challenge it becomes to sort through the history and get the full story.

Product Review Forums Brings Structure to the Chaos

As a full-featured product management addon, PRF sits on top of your forum allowing you to create defined products which, unlike individual posts, stay relevant over time. Each comment, review and even product updates filter back into this one spot allowing for a quick and comprehensive overview while the individual discussions rage on as always.

Here's just a few of the many features you'll find in PRF:

• Bring structure to products with established pages & reviews
• Reduce the number of repetitive posts from members looking up the same info
• Increase your traffic with content-rich, seo friendly, product listings
• Drive revenue by adding your own affiliate links to product listings
• Increase the activity stream's value with review integration
  
• Engage visitors with integrated wishlists from Giftery.me

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Installation is not upload & go... individualized settings are required. Read the install file.

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Enabling Product Forums: To show product details and ratings, each product-forum must be enabled in the forum manager.

Adding Products: You may upload products one at a time through the admin [includes an image uploader using GD] or you can bulk import through XML. You can also enable users to add moderated products through a global and usergroup option.

Product Review Index: To access your forum's product overview go to www.yoursite.com/productforums.php - You may want to add a link to this to your navbar or as a tab.

Customization: This addon is made to be customized. To change the color schema see clientscript/vbulletin_css or dive right on in to the templates and phrases.

Powered by Giftery.me: This mod is maintained includes two integrations you should know about. Both can be controlled through the mod options.

[imported_dfmafia]

prefixes work and to answer my own question from above. yes it uses current prefixes asigned to forum topic :up:

[imported_dfmafia]

1 0 char .

[Kirk Fitzgerald]

Hi Ted,
B2 is a fantastic update, I have a question, probably just me being stupid!

With existing Products, suppose they have external images for the main image such as:

http://photobucket.com/blah/blah/DrPlumbQuintexBentAppleSmoothLondonMadeMagicInchBr iarPipe.jpg

What do we do to ensure they have the thumbnail and tiny image, currently nothing has changed on localhost for existing Products, those images are still missing.

[Ricsca]

Originally Posted by Ted S

It's a link bug we posted about earlier today... When beta 2 comes in a few minutes out just upgrade and you'll be good to go.

Upgrade and now

Warning: getimagesize(): Filename cannot be empty in [path]/includes/prodforums_uploader.php on line 32
couldnt understand the image

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by imported_df+++++

1 0 char .

Not sure I follow?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Ricsca

Upgrade and now

Warning: getimagesize(): Filename cannot be empty in [path]/includes/prodforums_uploader.php on line 32
couldnt understand the image

The script debugs for valid images a bit but it looks like something is sneaking through or perhaps just not playing nicely... What version of php / gd are you using?

Debugging this will require a few changes. Please try this version of admincp/productforums.php and includes/prodforums_uploader.php

This will print out some debug information and exit the script before trying to process any images.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Kirk Fitzgerald

Hi Ted,
B2 is a fantastic update, I have a question, probably just me being stupid!

With existing Products, suppose they have external images for the main image such as:


What do we do to ensure they have the thumbnail and tiny image, currently nothing has changed on localhost for existing Products, those images are still missing.

Just run the bulk script. It will try to load the remote image, reprocess it into the 3 image sizes and update the database if successful.

The nice thing is that you can use this moving forward so rather than uploading files individually you just include the url, hit sync and it grabs them for you.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by imported_df+++++

prefixes work and to answer my own question from above. yes it uses current prefixes asigned to forum topic :up:

Yup, uses whatever is set for the forum... just like you were making a regular thread. Glad it's working how you expected

[Ricsca]

Originally Posted by Ted S

The script debugs for valid images a bit but it looks like something is sneaking through or perhaps just not playing nicely... What version of php / gd are you using?

Debugging this will require a few changes. Please try this version of admincp/productforums.php and includes/prodforums_uploader.php

This will print out some debug information and exit the script before trying to process any images.

Dont work... my php info

http://www.tartaportal.it/admincp/index.php?do=phpinfo

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Ricsca

Dont work... my php info

http://www.tartaportal.it/admincp/index.php?do=phpinfo

Don't work doesn't give me much to go off of... Let's dive deeper...

Did it error on you? If so, which script? If not, Did it output messages?

It's not suppose to convert anything... in fact it will stop before trying. It's a debug script and should produce something like:

photoid is: 500126c9ad6d2
filename is: /var/www/forum/prodphotos/500126c9ad6d2
download is: http://www.xxx.com/Image/Product/Full/APLFPCO.jpg
should now have: /var/www/forum/prodphotos/500126c9ad6d2_original.unknown
file name is: /var/www/forum/prodphotos/500126c9ad6d2_original.unknown
skipping the delete
exiting

And since I'm not an admin for your forum I can't see your php info. You'll need to find the versions for PHP and GD and report them back [phpinfo should never be openly shared]