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.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Volvoholic

Hi TED,

I get this message when adding a product via productreview.php, I do not get the error via the ACP add product method. Happens with both v 1.2.2 and 1.2.3

This is the wrong function clearly but only is being called when a duplicate product is found -- adding new valid items should not be impacted. We'll get a fix out in the next version but you can manually resolve it by changing line 846 to

if($product['productid']){ eval(standard_error(fetch_error('prodforums_admin_dup'))); }

[Killhunter]

Hi Ted S,

i went back to 1.2.2, but now I have that problem that new reviews have to be activated manually by an admin. Is there a fix?

[Ricsca]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Ouch. Thanks for the feedback but calling parts of a free mod a failure is probably not the best way to win the [positive] attention of the author.

Image urls were used because we don't see most people creating products individually, it's simply not scalable to hand enter even just a hundred products. When you enter a url, you define the image and thus you define the height... browser forced resizing is not a solution. Still there's been enough demand for uploading so while I think it will take people down the wrong path, we added to the feature roadmap a few weeks back.

I never wanted to say that the product is a failure! I realize now that google translate has mistranslated what I meant.

I do not understand what I mean.

I think this is a good product but the images are often canceled by other spiti therefore not able to upload pictures on your server I think it's something not right.

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by Ricsca

I never wanted to say that the product is a failure! I realize now that google translate has mistranslated what I meant.

I do not understand what I mean.

I think this is a good product but the images are often canceled by other spiti therefore not able to upload pictures on your server I think it's something not right.

My friend here would like to have a feature which imports external images to his forums and while this is done, to resize also the images.

I think this could be done simply by a cronjob at regular intervals, or just while saving ...

[Volvoholic]

Originally Posted by Ted S

This is the wrong function clearly but only is being called when a duplicate product is found -- adding new valid items should not be impacted. We'll get a fix out in the next version but you can manually resolve it by changing line 846 to

if($product['productid']){ eval(standard_error(fetch_error('prodforums_admin_dup'))); }

Thank you that worked !

[morrow]

"Something went terribly wrong in creating your product. End of the line. Admin-1027a"

Received that when adding a new product.

Also, I think this would be so much better if users could also add products. There are products I'd love to ad but don't know enough about whereas some of my users might know everything about the product.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by y2ksw

My friend here would like to have a feature which imports external images to his forums and while this is done, to resize also the images.

I think this could be done simply by a cronjob at regular intervals, or just while saving ...

It's something we're looking into. Of course with cross site support it becomes much more complex than developing the feature for just one install.

Of course doing this will open up a lot of flexibility in displaying images so it's really just a matter of making it work right.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by morrow

"Something went terribly wrong in creating your product. End of the line. Admin-1027a"

Received that when adding a new product.

Have you specified which forum new products should be created in? Does this forum allow posting [not a category]?

Originally Posted by morrow

Also, I think this would be so much better if users could also add products. There are products I'd love to ad but don't know enough about whereas some of my users might know everything about the product.

They can.

[morrow]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Have you specified which forum new products should be created in? Does this forum allow posting [not a category]?


They can.

I created a new forum just for this mod. Forum ID is 178. Within the "Product Review Forums - Core Settings" under "Review Thread Forum ID' i have "178".

When I edit the forum I don't see anything regarding the product so I figured there is nothing to adjust there. The new forum is a forum.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by morrow

I created a new forum just for this mod. Forum ID is 178. Within the "Product Review Forums - Core Settings" under "Review Thread Forum ID' i have "178".

When I edit the forum I don't see anything regarding the product so I figured there is nothing to adjust there. The new forum is a forum.

As stated in the main mod post and the install guide there is an option in the forum settings to enable this mod.

It should be the last one on the page.

That said, it shouldn't have any issues causing this error. Does the forum allow posting [not permissions but core settings]? If so, try rebuilding the forum cache.