Go Back   vb.org Archive > vBulletin Modifications > vBulletin 4.x Modifications > vBulletin 4.x Add-ons
Product Review Forums ? Research, Review & Compare Items Details »»
Product Review Forums ? Research, Review & Compare Items
Version: 1.4.0, by Ted S Ted S is offline
Developer Last Online: Nov 2020 Show Printable Version Email this Page

Category: Major Additions - Version: 4.x.x Rating:
Released: 09-06-2011 Last Update: 04-05-2014 Installs: 214
DB Changes Uses Plugins Auto-Templates
Additional Files  
No support by the author.

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
===========================

Installation is not upload & go... individualized settings are required. Read the install file.


===========================
QUICK TIPS:
===========================

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.

Download Now

File Type: zip Product Review Forums v1.4.0.zip (107.4 KB, 227 views)

Screenshots

File Type: jpg Untitled-1.jpg (45.4 KB, 0 views)
File Type: jpg Untitled-2.jpg (79.4 KB, 0 views)
File Type: jpg Untitled-3.jpg (70.0 KB, 0 views)
File Type: jpg Untitled-4.jpg (76.3 KB, 0 views)
File Type: jpg Untitled-5.jpg (62.0 KB, 0 views)

Show Your Support

  • This modification may not be copied, reproduced or published elsewhere without author's permission.

Comments
  #1732  
Old 05-14-2014, 03:50 PM
Ted S Ted S is offline
 
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: SoCal
Posts: 3,954
Благодарил(а): 0 раз(а)
Поблагодарили: 0 раз(а) в 0 сообщениях
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Snipuh21 View Post
I had this mod installed but it turned out not to work in the way I needed without beaucoup extra work that was not in my budget. That said I had it uninstalled and now the default thread rating system is not working. Anyone else have this problem? Any suggestions as to how to attack it? Thank you very much.
There should be not changes to your thread ratings as the mod works on an entirely different set of parameters and tables created for it.

That said, what's happening?
Reply With Quote
  #1733  
Old 05-14-2014, 03:56 PM
Snipuh21 Snipuh21 is offline
 
Join Date: Apr 2014
Posts: 6
Благодарил(а): 0 раз(а)
Поблагодарили: 0 раз(а) в 0 сообщениях
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Ted S View Post
There should be not changes to your thread ratings as the mod works on an entirely different set of parameters and tables created for it.

That said, what's happening?
Thanks for prompt reply. The star ratings that are supposed to show up on the forum page next to a thread are not appearing. Thread ratings are turned on and the number of ratings required for stars to show is set to 1.
Reply With Quote
  #1734  
Old 05-14-2014, 03:59 PM
Ted S Ted S is offline
 
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: SoCal
Posts: 3,954
Благодарил(а): 0 раз(а)
Поблагодарили: 0 раз(а) в 0 сообщениях
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Snipuh21 View Post
Thanks for prompt reply. The star ratings that are supposed to show up on the forum page next to a thread are not appearing. Thread ratings are turned on and the number of ratings required for stars to show is set to 1.
Did you make the manual template change listed in the install instructions?
Reply With Quote
  #1735  
Old 05-14-2014, 04:39 PM
Snipuh21 Snipuh21 is offline
 
Join Date: Apr 2014
Posts: 6
Благодарил(а): 0 раз(а)
Поблагодарили: 0 раз(а) в 0 сообщениях
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Ted S View Post
Did you make the manual template change listed in the install instructions?
I am checking. In the meantime, vBulletin support responded that the star-ratings are "not showing because your images are missing". Do you think they could have been removed when PRF was uninstalled?
Reply With Quote
  #1736  
Old 05-14-2014, 05:31 PM
Ted S Ted S is offline
 
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: SoCal
Posts: 3,954
Благодарил(а): 0 раз(а)
Поблагодарили: 0 раз(а) в 0 сообщениях
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Snipuh21 View Post
I am checking. In the meantime, vBulletin support responded that the star-ratings are "not showing because your images are missing". Do you think they could have been removed when PRF was uninstalled?
The plug-in system has no access to your file structure. If you deleted them while removing other files however...
Reply With Quote
  #1737  
Old 05-14-2014, 06:49 PM
Snipuh21 Snipuh21 is offline
 
Join Date: Apr 2014
Posts: 6
Благодарил(а): 0 раз(а)
Поблагодарили: 0 раз(а) в 0 сообщениях
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Ted S View Post
The plug-in system has no access to your file structure. If you deleted them while removing other files however...
Okay, thanks for the help.
Reply With Quote
  #1738  
Old 08-26-2014, 08:22 PM
Morrus Morrus is offline
 
Join Date: Jan 2002
Posts: 494
Благодарил(а): 0 раз(а)
Поблагодарили: 0 раз(а) в 0 сообщениях
Default

Great start, but this thing has some major issues! The main one is the editor which produces walls of text and strips out all formatting. Line breaks are a thing!

Other than that, widgets are a necessity (hopefully those are coming). Being able to choose some product description fields (books might be hardcover, softcover, PDF, for example). And 5-star rating systems are very broad.

But that wall of text is no good! It cripples the entire mod.

Bizarrely, if you edit the post afterwards, you can format it. But no user is going to do that!
Attached Images
File Type: jpg walloftext.jpg (189.8 KB, 0 views)
Reply With Quote
  #1739  
Old 08-26-2014, 08:32 PM
Ted S Ted S is offline
 
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: SoCal
Posts: 3,954
Благодарил(а): 0 раз(а)
Поблагодарили: 0 раз(а) в 0 сообщениях
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Morrus View Post
Great start, but this thing has some major issues! The main one is the editor which produces walls of text and strips out all formatting. Line breaks are a thing!
Line breaks are fully supported. What are your post / html settings?
Reply With Quote
  #1740  
Old 08-26-2014, 08:33 PM
Ted S Ted S is offline
 
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: SoCal
Posts: 3,954
Благодарил(а): 0 раз(а)
Поблагодарили: 0 раз(а) в 0 сообщениях
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Morrus View Post
Other than that, widgets are a necessity (hopefully those are coming). Being able to choose some product description fields (books might be hardcover, softcover, PDF, for example). And 5-star rating systems are very broad
Completely! The mod is intended as a starting place and should, by all means, be customized to the unique nature of your community and the products to be reviewed on it.
Reply With Quote
  #1741  
Old 08-26-2014, 08:43 PM
Morrus Morrus is offline
 
Join Date: Jan 2002
Posts: 494
Благодарил(а): 0 раз(а)
Поблагодарили: 0 раз(а) в 0 сообщениях
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Ted S View Post
Line breaks are fully supported. What are your post / html settings?
Thanks for the quick reply. I've just searched the thread and saw someone else had similar formatting issues which did not get resolved. So I guess it's not a quick fix.

Full WYSIWYG is on (and also works elsewhere on the site/forum just fine). In the reviews area, though, no WYSIWIG, and all formatting and line breaks get stripped even when pasting in a formatted post from elsewhere. As mentioned, you can proceed to edit the post and get the WYSIWIG editor to appear and fix it all, but not on the initial "new review" page.

http://www.enworld.org/forum/productforums.php
Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT. The time now is 08:58 AM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.12 by vBS
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions Inc.
X vBulletin 3.8.12 by vBS Debug Information
  • Page Generation 0.06242 seconds
  • Memory Usage 2,362KB
  • Queries Executed 26 (?)
More Information
Template Usage:
  • (1)SHOWTHREAD
  • (1)ad_footer_end
  • (1)ad_footer_start
  • (1)ad_header_end
  • (1)ad_header_logo
  • (1)ad_navbar_below
  • (1)ad_showthread_beforeqr
  • (9)bbcode_quote
  • (1)footer
  • (1)forumjump
  • (1)forumrules
  • (1)gobutton
  • (1)header
  • (1)headinclude
  • (1)modsystem_post
  • (1)navbar
  • (4)navbar_link
  • (120)option
  • (1)pagenav
  • (1)pagenav_curpage
  • (4)pagenav_pagelink
  • (4)pagenav_pagelinkrel
  • (11)post_thanks_box
  • (12)post_thanks_box_bit
  • (11)post_thanks_button
  • (1)post_thanks_javascript
  • (1)post_thanks_navbar_search
  • (1)post_thanks_postbit
  • (11)post_thanks_postbit_info
  • (10)postbit
  • (7)postbit_attachment
  • (11)postbit_onlinestatus
  • (11)postbit_wrapper
  • (1)spacer_close
  • (1)spacer_open
  • (1)tagbit_wrapper 

Phrase Groups Available:
  • global
  • inlinemod
  • postbit
  • posting
  • reputationlevel
  • showthread
Included Files:
  • ./showthread.php
  • ./global.php
  • ./includes/init.php
  • ./includes/class_core.php
  • ./includes/config.php
  • ./includes/functions.php
  • ./includes/class_hook.php
  • ./includes/modsystem_functions.php
  • ./includes/functions_bigthree.php
  • ./includes/class_postbit.php
  • ./includes/class_bbcode.php
  • ./includes/functions_reputation.php
  • ./includes/functions_post_thanks.php 

Hooks Called:
  • init_startup
  • init_startup_session_setup_start
  • init_startup_session_setup_complete
  • cache_permissions
  • fetch_threadinfo_query
  • fetch_threadinfo
  • fetch_foruminfo
  • style_fetch
  • cache_templates
  • global_start
  • parse_templates
  • global_setup_complete
  • showthread_start
  • showthread_getinfo
  • forumjump
  • showthread_post_start
  • showthread_query_postids
  • showthread_query
  • bbcode_fetch_tags
  • bbcode_create
  • showthread_postbit_create
  • postbit_factory
  • postbit_display_start
  • post_thanks_function_post_thanks_off_start
  • post_thanks_function_post_thanks_off_end
  • post_thanks_function_fetch_thanks_start
  • fetch_musername
  • post_thanks_function_fetch_thanks_end
  • post_thanks_function_thanked_already_start
  • post_thanks_function_thanked_already_end
  • post_thanks_function_fetch_thanks_bit_start
  • post_thanks_function_show_thanks_date_start
  • post_thanks_function_show_thanks_date_end
  • post_thanks_function_fetch_thanks_bit_end
  • post_thanks_function_fetch_post_thanks_template_start
  • post_thanks_function_fetch_post_thanks_template_end
  • postbit_imicons
  • bbcode_parse_start
  • bbcode_parse_complete_precache
  • bbcode_parse_complete
  • postbit_attachment
  • postbit_display_complete
  • post_thanks_function_can_thank_this_post_start
  • pagenav_page
  • pagenav_complete
  • tag_fetchbit_complete
  • forumrules
  • navbits
  • navbits_complete
  • showthread_complete