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.

[SLY LS1]

Originally Posted by Dangerboy

Installed and somewhat working. There is an issue with the Product Category all showing up as (0) or (1) instead of the title.

Was under the impression that it would post full details in the applied forum setting which right now shows as "This is an empty post".

Yes that is an issue that they are looking into, I have noted it in a previos post

[Killhunter]

Hi Ted!

You know me and the problem with the editor. Since I updated to 1.2.2 I have another big problem: every time someone wants to review a product this warning comes up: Your review comments must be at least 50 characters long.

Of course, its bigger than 50 characters, but you know, i have the older editor and it seems, that this one doesnt send the length correctly? Could you fix that?

Did you try to improve the "create new thread for each review" function?

[Killhunter]

If I set the min. length to 0, this error appears: Your review comments must be at least 1 characters long.

[Larsveld]

I'm getting problems with "must be at least..."

It works for some people yet not for others.

Is there a fix?

[Goatpod]

Getting the 'Your review comments must be at least 50 characters long.' error here as well.

[The Ottoman]

Originally Posted by Killhunter

If I set the min. length to 0, this error appears: Your review comments must be at least 1 characters long.

I had this issue with posting here at VB.org.

Go into your UserCP and change your editor from full WYSIWYG to the basic editor. Save it. Post something. Then switch it back.

[Killhunter]

Hm, i dont want to say that to each member of my forum... there should be another lotion...

[Volvoholic]

Hi everyone.

I am running 1.2.2 (upgraded from 1.1.2)
Created a product via the ACP Product Forum manager.
Created reviews
Modded my Forumdisplay.php as per the installation text
enabled Product Review Forum feature in the relevant forums

I cannot get rid of "this is an empty post" display when shown as a forum. Where am I going wrong? I have been following the comments since page 33 and it seems it goes away when one enables the Product Forum Review feature. I have done this and it still shows "this is an empty post".

This is annoying as I have a cmps module displaying the reviews as latest threads but "this is an empty post" shows up as well.

Also, I still get $ before the manufacturer which is supposed to be fixed in 1.2.2 ?

Please advice

[Goatpod]

Originally Posted by Volvoholic

I cannot get rid of "this is an empty post" display when shown as a forum.

I got rid of this by setting "Create New Thread on Review" to 'no' in the settings. Now it just posts the review in the right place instead of creating the empty thread as well.

Also, I still get $ before the manufacturer which is supposed to be fixed in 1.2.2 ?

IIRC, do a template search for

{vb:phrase prodforums_mfrgd,{vb:raw product.mfrg}}

There's a rogue $ sign just before.

[Volvoholic]

Originally Posted by Goatpod

I got rid of this by setting "Create New Thread on Review" to 'no' in the settings. Now it just posts the review in the right place instead of creating the empty thread as well.

Thanks Goatpod but the setting was already selected to "No". This is an empty post is still displayed.