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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QUICK TIPS:
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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]

Installed on localhost with 4.2PL2, no problems so far barr one issue, in the forum display the icon is not being resized. I have used an image that is 220px x 220px to force resizing, as you can see the image is not being resized, is this normal?

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Ted,

what is this in the admin manage products:
Full Img

On my test site all products have NO in this column, am I missing a setting do you suppose?

[deverill2010]

Updates look fantastic and all the little bits I need

I don't do test sites haha, I may upgrade it in a week or two and see how I get on

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Kirk Fitzgerald

Installed on localhost with 4.2PL2, no problems so far barr one issue, in the forum display the icon is not being resized. I have used an image that is 220px x 220px to force resizing, as you can see the image is not being resized, is this normal?

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Ted,

what is this in the admin manage products:
Full Img

On my test site all products have NO in this column, am I missing a setting do you suppose?

The forumdisplay uses the small icon... Are you using the uploader or just inserting the same image path into all 3 fields?

I'll see if we can force a resize but as its a 40x40 and theres a lot of them, keeping file size down seems important too

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by imported_df+++++

added product, moderated it just fine. but when I tried to add a review I received the following error message when I submit the review:

Can you turn on error debugging and see what additional details are provided?

Also, does this happen with products created via the admin as well [you mentioned moderation so I assume this item was added as "user"]?

[Kirk Fitzgerald]

Originally Posted by Ted S

The forumdisplay uses the small icon... Are you using the uploader or just inserting the same image path into all 3 fields?

I'll see if we can force a resize but as its a 40x40 and theres a lot of them, keeping file size down seems important too

I added a new product through the add product button in the forum, there is only one image upload field where you enter the image url, there is no uploader!

I have tried altering existing Product by duplicating the same image url, this is where I found the not resizing thing.

On another point, when clicking the Upload a new product photo? in manage products I get this error:

Object not found!

The requested URL was not found on this server. The link on the referring page seems to be wrong or outdated. Please inform the author of that page about the error.

If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.
Error 404
localhost
07/13/12 18:30:45
Apache/2.2.21 (Win32) mod_ssl/2.2.21 OpenSSL/1.0.0e PHP/5.3.8 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.1

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Existing Products will not have the other icons either would they, this will be a pain for sites already using this mod, in a day or so my site will around 300 products listed, nadgers to editing them all to include the new icons, can this be done during the upgrade, or will it have to be a manual edit process?.

[Ted S]

Updated to reflect 1.3.0 beta 2 changes.

Originally Posted by Kirk Fitzgerald

I added a new product through the add product button in the forum, there is only one image upload field where you enter the image url, there is no uploader!

You can enter a url when you make a product but to upload you have to create the product first... Made this a little clearer in beta 2. No worries though, our new bulk resizer will turn those links into images for you.

Existing Products will not have the other icons either would they, this will be a pain for sites already using this mod, in a day or so my site will around 300 products listed, nadgers to editing them all to include the new icons, can this be done during the upgrade, or will it have to be a manual edit process?.

Resizing 300 images would timeout the browser for the installer and can't be done until we have your settings anyways. We've made a resync script that's in the next version, solves the problem.

[Ted S]

Update posted. Removed.

[imported_dfmafia]

cool, I'm checking on my end again.

yes, i used one of my vendor users to add the product and had no issues.

i resized and uploaded to a local directory for my thumbnails before inputting them as links - no issues. though i will test the resizing today since my vendors have gotten excited about this product

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Kirk Fitzgerald

Existing Products will not have the other icons either would they, this will be a pain for sites already using this mod, in a day or so my site will around 300 products listed, nadgers to editing them all to include the new icons, can this be done during the upgrade, or will it have to be a manual edit process?.

Upload this version of admincp/productforums.php and it should resize all external images into 300x300, 60x60 and 40x40 thumbnails.

Note: all existing image urls will be removed. Back up the pf_product table before you run this to be safe.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by imported_df+++++

cool, I'm checking on my end again.

yes, i used one of my vendor users to add the product and had no issues.

i resized and uploaded to a local directory for my thumbnails before inputting them as links - no issues. though i will test the resizing today since my vendors have gotten excited about this product

We just finished up a bulk resizer script which will let you import XML data or add images manually and can then build out the thumbnails... Saves time if you're copying & pasting.

As far as the error, that's getting triggered when we try to create a new thread so I wonder if there's a missing element or issue with the forum it's going into? The error debug should help.