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Product Review Forums ? Research, Review & Compare Items · **Released**: 09-06-2011

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.

lazytown · #**392** 01-19-2012, 01:23 AM

How about "this review was useful"? To be thumbed up/down for individual member reviews. In an ideal world, the ones thumbed up the most would show up first.

Ted S · #**393** 01-19-2012, 06:11 AM

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Originally Posted by vissa

How about "this review was useful"? To be thumbed up/down for individual member reviews. In an ideal world, the ones thumbed up the most would show up first.

Since we did the Helpful Answers post we've got the functionality but I'll have to think about if it's best to make a separate feature for this or bridge the data from HA to impact PF listings as that would save having a very large code addition.

Goatpod · #**394** 01-19-2012, 12:43 PM

I've changed the $ to ? symbol in the phrases, however, the $ sign is still appearing on the productforums.php search page. Any pointers as to where I can change it.

Thanks for a great mod

Ted S · #**395** 01-19-2012, 04:39 PM

In change productforums_listed_bit

Code:

<td class="alt1"><vb:if condition="$price"> (${vb:raw price})<vb:else />-</vb:if></td>

This will become a phrase in the next version.

Goatpod · #**396** 01-19-2012, 05:17 PM

Cheers, Ted, all done

Killhunter · #**397** 01-20-2012, 06:28 PM

Hi Ted,

1. A feature I also really want to have would be a the option, to create a new user class, which can also posts reviews - but this reviews should be displayed first (at the top).

2. For these special members "reviewers" it should be possible to rate in percent. 1-5 stars are not enough. 1-10 would be great or in percent displayed with a great picture would be awesome

3. The textfield for reviews should really be larger

4. Users shouldnt be able to post reviews with less than 100 words for example.

5. you tried that? Its really important for me, because i need the addon now

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1. I enabled the option to create a new thread for each review. Why does this addon post the Reviews in the forum for products and not the forum for reviews (id?s are correct, my review forum is under my product-forum).

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Originally Posted by Ted S

If you want to add your own forced resize open up the review template and add a width="X" height="Y" into the <img> tag where you define either a max width or height... However that will not actually resize the image, it just forces it to look smaller while still downloading the entire file and potentially altering the aspect ratio or distorting the page.

The height should be right, so i just want to define the width of 500px for example. <img max-width="500px" /> right?

Ted S · #**398** 01-20-2012, 06:39 PM

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