Is better to say what is NOT . For sure is not that mod requested for years now at this thread. But is a good Reviews system for those who want to review one type of items (eg Games, Books, Autos etc) and one group of rating questions is ok for them. With the help of extra fields and a bit works from your side to configure it, you can have a very good reviews section in your site.
Supports unlimited categories
You can set the word that will be use in the pages to identify the type of your reviews (eg Game - Games, Book - Books etc)
Supports Extra fields (but not searchable)
Supports one group of rating questions (but unlimited questions)
Supports Product photos or YouTube video if exists
Has PM templates for:
PM user when admin approves his Review
PM user when admin rejects Review
Revier can temporary hide the review and a later time he can activate it again.
There are listings for:
Category Reviews
Timeframe (What's New) Reviews
User Reviews
Search Results
In view Review page the visitor can see also:
Editor Rating
Community Rating
Lowest Rating
Highest Rating
Editor other reviews on sidebar
In all pages there are available the follow blocks having the appearance of widgets:
Category Menu
Search Form
Statistics
Top Editor Products (Games, Books, etc)
Top Community Products
New Reviews
New Community Ratings
RSS Feeds for latest 10 reviews
Facebook Like Advanced (Shows users who liked a review)
ver.1.1.0 Added a setting to allow or not Audio files (in case that you want to review music). Default is OFF. If you turn on then the users can hear the audio file with the included (simple) audio player.
2.- Installation
Download and unzip the file Reviews_XXXX.zip
Upload the content of upload folder to the directory where your vB installation is. As a check: reviews.php must be on the same directoru as global.php, forum.php etc. SL Reviews are not working out of vB installation directory.
CMOD 777 the directories:
christeris/reviews/photos
christeris/reviews/photos/thumbs
christeris/reviews/photos/tmp
Goto Admincp and import product-reviews.xml. Double check before if you have another product with the same name.
Set the various settings in Reviews->General settings
Set usergroup permissions
Check and modify if you want PM templates.
Set categories
Set Extra fields (in case that you want them).
Set Rating Questions
*** ATTENTION *** Double check that rating questins are ok before starting adding reviews. After the first review you CAN'T Add/Edit/Delete questions.
3.- SEO URLs
If you're using vbSeo open the file Reviews_vBSEO_Custom_Rewrite_Rules.txt and add them to your vbSeo installation.
If you're using .htaccasse file copy the contents of htaccess.txt and add it to your current .htaccess files. If you don't have such file and your server is compatible with such files, upload htaccess.txt to your vB directory and rename it to: .htaccess
4.- CMS Widget / Forum Sidebar block for Latest Reviews
Pre-Installation:
Shows latest 5 Reviews. If you want to change the number to another value change at 1st line: $maxreviews = 5;
Installation as CMS Widget
Goto Admincp-> vBulletin CMS-> Widgets
Click "Create New Widget" at the list bottom
Set Widget Type: PHP Direct Execution
Give a Title which appears at the widget. eg Last Reviews, or.. Last 5 Reviews etc
Click SAVE
Find in the list the new widget and click configure at the right side
Replace the example code, with the code from Widget_Block_Latest_Reviews.txt
Click Save
Goto Layout and add it in any section you want
Click Save (Layout)
Installation as Forum sidebar Block
Goto Admincp-> Forums & Moderators -> Forum Block Manager
Click Add Block
In the next screen "Select block type: Custom HTML/PHP"
Click Continue
Title: Latest Reviews
Content Type: PHP
Content: Copy & Paste the code from Widget_Block_Latest_Reviews.txt
Click Save. The block will be now visible to your forum sidebar
5.- Copyright link
Since the time that DBTech released their Copyright Manager, I've removed my own copyrights. I found their action insulting me to maximum. Their wording "Site is powered by vBulletin AddOns and Modules by Dragonbyte Tech" (and not "Some parts of this site"), means that everything there is their own work, ignoring on the worst way the fact that there are 100's of other coders and designers who are supporting this community for years. So, I'm letting the glory to them. No copyrights from my side.
Enjoy it
Christos Teriakis
aka ChrisTERiS
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This modification may not be copied, reproduced or published elsewhere without author's permission.
Reviews 1.2.2 released to fix 2 reported bugs:
1.- Wrong rating when a user deletes his ratings
2.- Wrong message "You have already rate this review". I have fixed it in an earlier version but I forgot to correct the security check before saving data.
To upgrade:
1.- Upload reviews.php and reviews_usercp.php
2.- Import product-reviews.xml. This is optional just to update the version number.
Thank you for you kind offer, but its a long time that I left behind the task "Translations". As a proof I'll say that even if I've released 30+ mods since 2006, none of them I translated even in my own language.
You're free to translate any of my mods, as you're also free to sell these translations. But post them as attachment in your own posts.
When a member post a review, and I click on the button "write a review", to give my rank.
All the informations are complete, and I click Submit.
Next, I have the error message that I ranked this reniew. For sure, it's false.
Thank you for you kind offer, but its a long time that I left behind the task "Translations". As a proof I'll say that even if I've released 30+ mods since 2006, none of them I translated even in my own language.
You're free to translate any of my mods, as you're also free to sell these translations. But post them as attachment in your own posts.
Christos
I translate for free, for all french users
I say that if you want to put it on the original topic.
But OK, when it's OK, I put it in one of my post
The rating post after the new release. As you can see the demouser1 rating has not the review's author avatar. Let's wait if someone else has this problem.
The rating post after the new release. As you can see the demouser1 rating has not the review's author avatar. Let's wait if someone else has this problem.
tested and i also have the authors avatar on a users vote
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. For sure is not that mod requested for years now at this thread. But is a good Reviews system for those who want to review one type of items (eg Games, Books, Autos etc) and one group of rating questions is ok for them. With the help of extra fields and a bit works from your side to configure it, you can have a very good reviews section in your site.
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