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 biftek

does anyone know if this will work with 3.8?

4.0 and 3.8 have very different code structures so no, the mod will not work.

[TheSupportForum]

Originally Posted by biftek

does anyone know if this will work with 3.8?

your in the v4 mod section so i guess not
plus the coding has changes since so it will not work unless you as the developer to
convert this to a 3.8 MOD

[biftek]

Originally Posted by simonhind

your in the v4 mod section so i guess not
plus the coding has changes since so it will not work unless you as the developer to
convert this to a 3.8 MOD

no harm in asking

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by biftek

no harm in asking

Never a harm in a question but as an FYI, 99% of vB 4 mods won't work on vB 3.

[TheSupportForum]

Ted S

in short this is what i'd like
1) extra image section to show more of the product ( lets say 5 for now)
either located at bottom of thread or right side of product image

can this be done in next release ?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by simonhind

Ted S

in short this is what i'd like
1) extra image section to show more of the product ( lets say 5 for now)
either located at bottom of thread or right side of product image

can this be done in next release ?

A mod is a starting point to add a new type of experience or function for your site... rather than waiting for a highly specific feature to happen, which is unlikely to meet your exact needs, you should work to customize things to meet your needs.

[TheSupportForum]

Originally Posted by Ted S

A mod is a starting point to add a new type of experience or function for your site... rather than waiting for a highly specific feature to happen, which is unlikely to meet your exact needs, you should work to customize things to meet your needs.

yeah i have already done the edits needed for it to suite our sites needs
i'll look into recoding it to do the addition bits i need then

this mod is great and been looking for something like this for a while

[The Ottoman]

Has there been any thought into adding a field for tags? Or even better, since the products are essentially threads have you considered leveraging a way to add a field for the built-in tag field during entry of the products?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by The Ottoman

Has there been any thought into adding a field for tags? Or even better, since the products are essentially threads have you considered leveraging a way to add a field for the built-in tag field during entry of the products?

Since it's just threads they wouldn't be hard to add but how do you see them being used?

[sacobra]

Originally Posted by Ted S

The images are not in the path the page thinks they are in. Check the source, check where they were uploaded too and we can go from there.

The rating images are all stars-black-* whereas the folder has only stars-pink-* and stars-green-* png images.

Guess the download package needs to be updated with the black png images.

Regards,
Sumith