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.

[tortuga2]

No source code at all. I made sure the proper file was in the admincp folder and loaded the admincp/productforums.php directly with same result: white page. And yes to the superuser part as well. Thanks for the quick reply and trying to resolve my issue

Originally Posted by Ted S

Right click, open the link in a new window and see if anything shows up in the source code.

Next try loading admincp/productforums.php directly (remember, there are two files with this name, one in the admin, one in your main folder).

Also be sure you are viewing as a superuser [although others should get an error].

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by tortuga2

No source code at all. I made sure the proper file was in the admincp folder and loaded the admincp/productforums.php directly with same result: white page. And yes to the superuser part as well. Thanks for the quick reply and trying to resolve my issue

There's an issue with pulling up the script apparently, but as it doesn't exist elsewhere we have to debug on your server.

Take a look at your error logs as a first step, hopefully they show an error.

If not, add the code

echo "start...<br>"; die;

right after <?php

Load the script and you should see it print start... we can keep adding tags until we find the issue.

[abieteh.com]

This plugin is awesome but ..

There's a problem that bother search engines .

All of threads that created by this mod have same description , located below :

<meta name="description" content="This is an empty post" />

Any fix?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by abieteh.com

This plugin is awesome but ..

There's a problem that bother search engines .

All of threads that created by this mod have same description , located below :

<meta name="description" content="This is an empty post" />

Any fix?

Interesting...

The meta tags are of course pulled from the first post which is a questionable description anyways [how many threads have a concise 250 character intro to start the discussion?]

The major engines go well beyond this meta tag to make their description, and identify what's a duplicate product, but it's a valid optimization point that we'll take a look at for a future release.

[abieteh.com]

Can i do something to pull pf_description entry into meta description ?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by abieteh.com

Can i do something to pull pf_description entry into meta description ?

You could but it would require modifying the plugin to expose that variable to the showthread template . We'll add this in a future release of course.

[Killhunter]

Originally Posted by Ted S

I've already covered this and there's no conflict with the mod. There's a conflict with how your forum renders it.

I have the standard installed and im at vbulletin 4.0.3.. so you dont have any problems?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Killhunter

I have the standard installed and im at vbulletin 4.0.3.. so you dont have any problems?

The standard is the screenshot we posted back to you in this thread using this mod and the mod you're using which work just fine together. :up:

[Killhunter]

Originally Posted by Ted S

The standard is the screenshot we posted back to you in this thread using this mod and the mod you're using which work just fine together. :up:

By the way.. where is the price in this screenshot?

What whould you do if you had this bug?

[abieteh.com]

You could but it would require modifying the plugin to expose that variable to the showthread template . We'll add this in a future release of course.

Thank you , I will waiting for new version . You are awesome.