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

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

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.

[adambloch]

Hi I seem to be getting $ appearing just before the price etc...

Many thanks

Adam

[adambloch]

Ok fixed just in the Phrase

[bada_bing]

Anyway to port this over to vb 3.8 ? This would be a very nice feature on our site

[bada_bing]

I have this installed however I may of perceived this as a different mod. What I am trying to do is allow members to start a new thread in a specific forum I have created called product reviews and have this plugin format the new thread so that they can enter the required fields as shown in your screenshots. I cant figure out how to do this? All I see is this mod allows the admin to create a new product ?help please

[The Ottoman]

Originally Posted by bada_bing

I have this installed however I may of perceived this as a different mod. What I am trying to do is allow members to start a new thread in a specific forum I have created called product reviews and have this plugin format the new thread so that they can enter the required fields as shown in your screenshots. I cant figure out how to do this? All I see is this mod allows the admin to create a new product ?help please

If you go into the AdminCP and look at the
Product Review Forum Settings, you'll see options to allow users to post products, and where those products go to.

Once you have the settings match what you want the product to do, go to http://www.yoursite.com/productforums.php and you'll see all of the products, on the right hand side, above the Search button, you'll see "Add New Product". The users will click that to add a product.

[bertwrld]

Originally Posted by Ted S

The issue with the db call seems to be on mysql_real_escape_string which helps to insure the data being entered isn't malicious. I'm not inclined to remove that of course... Can you try again and see if it persists?

I have removed, resinstalled, repeated, and still keep getting the same error.

The categories end up similar to the screenshot posted where the category is 0, when i try to delete the category, it says invalid ID found.

[bada_bing]

Originally Posted by The Ottoman

If you go into the AdminCP and look at the
Product Review Forum Settings, you'll see options to allow users to post products, and where those products go to.

Once you have the settings match what you want the product to do, go to http://www.yoursite.com/productforums.php and you'll see all of the products, on the right hand side, above the Search button, you'll see "Add New Product". The users will click that to add a product.

I have tried that and this is what I get when I go here http://www.yoursite.com/productforums.php
"No product reviews matches your search. Try broadening your criteria or selecting another category."

[Dangerboy]

Installed and somewhat working. There is an issue with the Product Category all showing up as (0) or (1) instead of the title.

Was under the impression that it would post full details in the applied forum setting which right now shows as "This is an empty post".

[The Ottoman]

Originally Posted by bada_bing

I have tried that and this is what I get when I go here http://www.yoursite.com/productforums.php
"No product reviews matches your search. Try broadening your criteria or selecting another category."

Have you created atleast one product in the backend?

[Volvoholic]

Originally Posted by Ted S

productforums.php isn't used in that process. The hack changes forumdisplay.php so that when you view the forum through an existing link, the format is adjusted to show review data via the template prodforums_threadbit.

Its just I can't get the product index to display when I click on the productforum enabled forum. I get the stock VB forum display. the only way for the index to display is to manually load productforum.php

Hope that explains it.