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.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Muhammad Rahman

when I want to add a product, this message appears:

"This feature is currently not in use"

why?

Because you didn't configure the options as the install file explains.

[zapiy]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Sure. Just turn off replies in the forum where reviews go.

Not sure you understood what i meant fella..

Have a look at this.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by zapiy

Not sure you understood what i meant fella..

Have a look at this.

Turning off reviews makes a review mod a bit of overkill as that's 92% of what it does but it's not hard. Just remove the review image and text from the product template, turn on replies in the forum's permissions (if you turned them off) and you'll be good to go.

[GameOverViper]

I'm trying to edit this to work as a game library kind of like how you see game pages on IGN.com. I'm having trouble finding how to add new categories and edit the boxes available and add new boxes. Do you have a guide for that somewhere? I can't seem to find anything on the online guide.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by GameOverViper

I'm trying to edit this to work as a game library kind of like how you see game pages on IGN.com. I'm having trouble finding how to add new categories and edit the boxes available and add new boxes. Do you have a guide for that somewhere? I can't seem to find anything on the online guide.

Both categories and custom fields are listed as options in your Admin Control area under the Product Review Forums category.

The standard fields can be edited by modifying your templates, they are not dynamic.

[qpurser]

Ted,

could you help me with the following litte issue I can't figure out myself where to change this?
I have created a custom yes/no field.
When the review get posted in the forum thread and I look at it it is not properly formatted.
Looks like this:

PHP Code:

<strong>Did you own this product?</strong>: Yes<br /> 


The "Did you own this product" doesn't show in bold but the code is visible instead.
I am using vB 4.2.3

Thanks for your help as always

[GameOverViper]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Both categories and custom fields are listed as options in your Admin Control area under the Product Review Forums category.

The standard fields can be edited by modifying your templates, they are not dynamic.

Well that's the problem, it only shows me

Product Review Forums - Core Settings
Product Review Forums - General Options
Product Review Forums - Styles & Options

And none of those include anything about the categories or custom fields.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by GameOverViper

Well that's the problem, it only shows me

Product Review Forums - Core Settings
Product Review Forums - General Options
Product Review Forums - Styles & Options

And none of those include anything about the categories or custom fields.

There are numerous additional tools found through the navbar links under the "Product Review Forums" category in your ACP.

[astdirect]

Got this error. I am running older 4.1.9 for my sins :/

Database error in vBulletin 4.1.9:

Invalid SQL:
INSERT INTO pokebactivitystreamtype SET packageid = 1, section = 'product', type = 'review', enabled = 1;

MySQL Error : Table 'pokerban_comf.pokebactivitystreamtype' doesn't exist
Error Number : 1146

I have tried to comment out the activity stream lines in the .xml but same error occurred. Any advice other han upgrading whole forum ?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by astdirect

Got this error. I am running older 4.1.9 for my sins :/

Database error in vBulletin 4.1.9:

Invalid SQL:
INSERT INTO pokebactivitystreamtype SET packageid = 1, section = 'product', type = 'review', enabled = 1;

MySQL Error : Table 'pokerban_comf.pokebactivitystreamtype' doesn't exist
Error Number : 1146



I have tried to comment out the activity stream lines in the .xml but same error occurred. Any advice other han upgrading whole forum ?

There's always a risk to installing mods on older versions of forum software, especially when the version (while close in number) has significant feature differences.

However we can definitely get you around this by properly removing the code from the XML file.

Remove or comment out line 175 - 194 of your xml file and then upload it.