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 setishock

Just reopend my computer forum and this is going to make mine different from the rest. I'm gonna nab this and play on my test forum first. I'm on 4.1.2 pl8 so hopefully it works right.
Film at 11:00...

Using that old of a version of vB there are likely things that will be a bit off.

[setishock]

Well you helped a guy on 4.0.4 using this. If mines old his is ancient. I'll let you know.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by setishock

Well you helped a guy on 4.0.4 using this. If mines old his is ancient. I'll let you know.

We'll always try to help but as you'll see, while most things worked for him, there were a few backwards compatibility issues. There's usually no issue within versions but 4.2 takes a major jump in a few templates & core components that are well used by this addon.

[wisemasterchief]

uninstalled product as it trashed activity.php and member.php .. generating blank pages whenever those two scripts were be used. please advise

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by wisemasterchief

uninstalled product as it trashed activity.php and member.php .. generating blank pages whenever those two scripts were be used. please advise

Hrmm.... Not much I can do with blank page errors. What does your server error log say?

[MoveOver.cc]

I cannot see my "Exclude Product Review Forum Features" in my admin, forums section.

Can anyone please advise.

Thanks

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by MoveOver.cc

I cannot see my "Exclude Product Review Forum Features" in my admin, forums section.

Can anyone please advise.

Thanks

PRF is inclusive. If you don't want it in a forum, don't enable it there (or if you did, turn it off).

[miket1234]

Hi!. I made this

Open: forumdisplay.php in a text editor

Find:

$templater = vB_Template::create('threadbit');

Replace with:

if($foruminfo['productforumsbits']){
// adjust this to your images folder, for products w/o an image
if(!$thread['mainphoto_small']){ $thread['mainphoto_small'] = '/images/rating/pf/noimage-40.png'; }
$thread['pf_rating'] = vb_number_format($thread['pf_rating'],1);
$templater = vB_Template::create('prodforums_threadbit');
} else {
$templater = vB_Template::create('threadbit');
}

but i also want to see the "Views". What I hade to do to see that info beside ratings&reviews. Thanks in advance!

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by miket1234

Hi!. I made this
but i also want to see the "Views". What I hade to do to see that info beside ratings&reviews. Thanks in advance!

Just change the variables shown in the PRF forum display template.

[addamroy]

How do I change the fields? Is it possible to add custom ones?

One thing I can think of right off the bat is I really don't want the 'manufacturers' field there at all that one does me no good.

Any options or workarounds to add, customize or at least remove fields? I'd like to change a few in the 'additional options' as well.

Also, after trying to submit a product to the product forums I set up on my test site, all my thread says is this,
"Product information... View for more details "

No images no rating things no nothin