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.

[sadaar]

Unfortunately there is nothing in my httpd error log. Clicking on any of the options under Product Review in the admincp loads a blank page on the right side frame. Only opening it in a separate tab shows the 500 error, and then only in Chrome.,, Firefox continues to show a blank page.

Is there anything I can do to get you more information?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by sadaar

Unfortunately there is nothing in my httpd error log. Clicking on any of the options under Product Review in the admincp loads a blank page on the right side frame. Only opening it in a separate tab shows the 500 error, and then only in Chrome.,, Firefox continues to show a blank page.

Is there anything I can do to get you more information?

You can increase the level of error notices in php. Odds are some module or permission is missing but nothing shows it because simple warnings are not set to show.

[astdirect]

Anyway to change the "Price" field to show a generic image such as "click to visit" ?

[astdirect]

Also, how can i make the review text a bit larger ?

[oddmud]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Originally Posted by Ricsca
Is possible upload the photo rather than enter the url?

Not at this time

Yeah you need this option, cause it's a lot of work to start manually doing that all the time.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by astdirect

Also, how can i make the review text a bit larger ?

The review should use your default settings. Check those and let me know if this is not the case.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by astdirect

Anyway to change the "Price" field to show a generic image such as "click to visit" ?

Edit the prodforums_product_details template as you see fit.

[The Ottoman]

Excellent mod. I used to have GARS in a previous iteration of my VBulletin board and this works (pretty much) perfectly for my needs.

I'm currently using this as a bridge from my Calibre ebook site with each of my "products" being one of my ebooks. With that being said, I have a couple of questions/requests:

1. I know that there is the bulk importer via XML, but I was wondering if you could setup a bulk importer with CSV. I'm more of an old school notepad type guy and that would help me import my books.

2. In order for a URL to be published, I have found that the price field has to have "something" in it other than the numeral 0. Leaving it blank doesn't show the URL. Do you have a suggestion for things that have no price, short of making all of my prices "Free" or "Gratis" or "$1"

3. I have a "product" that has multiple versions (say txt, pdf, and html) how would I go about adding multiple URLs to the product?

Again, thanks for a wonderful product

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by The Ottoman

1. I know that there is the bulk importer via XML, but I was wondering if you could setup a bulk importer with CSV. I'm more of an old school notepad type guy and that would help me import my books.

We figured CSV would be mighty popular but given the need to support advanced data in the descriptions, we stuck to XML which is much more stable. If you add column headers to a CSV, save it into an XLS, you can convert it.

2. In order for a URL to be published, I have found that the price field has to have "something" in it other than the numeral 0. Leaving it blank doesn't show the URL. Do you have a suggestion for things that have no price, short of making all of my prices "Free" or "Gratis" or "$1"

This can be fixed in the mod. For now perhaps just enter a period or dash?

3. I have a "product" that has multiple versions (say txt, pdf, and html) how would I go about adding multiple URLs to the product?

Perhaps in the description? You can use HTML

[astdirect]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Edit the prodforums_product_details template as you see fit.

Not a coder and had a look but couldnt see exactly how to edit it and what to replace and with what :/ Any help would be much apprecaited.

A few bugs i have on mine are :

Admin and moderators posting reviews works fine but when any other group adds review it doesnt get listed. EDIT: It appears it is listed, but isnt showing in latest posts or "last post by" when a regular user posts a review for some reason.

In adminCP i see the review and everything looks fine.

I have option "Screen new reviews" set to NO. When i click on the review in AdminCP it shows as APPROVED.

Truly this will be a fantastic mod when fully operational. I'm running on live site and all stable apart from small bug mentioned and a few tweaks for my own personal use needed. Installed and nominated (even on beta)