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.

[Kirk Fitzgerald]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Ok but first let's see if the import update worked...

When you ran it what sort of output did you get [it should tell you if it updates or creates a product for each record].

Any duplication?

Working perfectly in the respect Ted, all Products on xml's show as Existing product... updating

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by appsfinder

when submit a review i get an error how do i fix thanks,

Oh great, you had to go and press THAT button. There goes the whole site. Just kidding...

We had an issue posting your review because of
[ARG:2 UNDEFINED]. Try again or report this to our team and incldue code 164251-B.

It means the script wasn't able to make a thread in the review forum. Have you set a forum to go along with enabling this option? Does that forum allow posts?

[Kirk Fitzgerald]

Originally Posted by Kirk Fitzgerald

Working perfectly in that respect Ted, all Products on xml's show as Existing product... updating

Hey Ted,

by your not responding do I infer that it is safe to go ahead with the admincp/productforums.php file you provided me, what about the extra 'd' after all of the letter 'j'?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Kirk Fitzgerald

Hey Ted,

by your not responding do I infer that it is safe to go ahead with the admincp/productforums.php file you provided me, what about the extra 'd' after all of the letter 'j'?

MS office does some nasty things with special characters, we'll have to work on the filtering a bit more using the version we posted for you. No reason to use it now unless you have other updates to make through XML importing.

[Kirk Fitzgerald]

Originally Posted by Ted S

MS office does some nasty things with special characters, we'll have to work on the filtering a bit more using the version we posted for you. No reason to use it now unless you have other updates to make through XML importing.

Nothing new to import, just keen to remove that bizarre formatting from the product descriptions, looks bad is all.

[Kirk Fitzgerald]

Hiya Ted,

please do not continue with the weird character problem, I have just discovered the problem has absolutely nothing to do with your mod at all, the problem is coming from the source data itself, the weird characters are in the data entered into the xml's when I wrote them. I took the text from the website the products are sold on and they are right there in the text on that site.

So sorry for wasting your time with this, I will notify the site owner and let him know of the problem, thank you for your continued excellent first rate support Ted.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Kirk Fitzgerald

Hiya Ted,

please do not continue with the weird character problem, I have just discovered the problem has absolutely nothing to do with your mod at all, the problem is coming from the source data itself, the weird characters are in the data entered into the xml's when I wrote them. I took the text from the website the products are sold on and they are right there in the text on that site.

So sorry for wasting your time with this, I will notify the site owner and let him know of the problem, thank you for your continued excellent first rate support Ted.

Good to hear but I'm glad we were also able to track down your XML matching so you can get those updates in a little easier...

[Phrost]

About to dive in on configuring this, but I had a stupid question:

You can use this with pre-existing threads, right?

Kind of a big deal for us, given that we're GARS refugees.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Phrost

About to dive in on configuring this, but I had a stupid question:

You can use this with pre-existing threads, right?

Kind of a big deal for us, given that we're GARS refugees.

Products have a whole extended set of data that is displayed back so you'd have to create that manually or import it off of other products. Basically yes, but not without some work.

[Phrost]

Thanks for the quick answer. Not being a developer, is there a guide to importing old GARS info, or even just old threads?

I have years worth of GARS reviews.