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.

[sivaganeshk]

please update a demo/Live link in the first post !!

[ludachris]

A couple questions on this add-on:

1. Can you have multiple Affiliate Shop URL/Title fields (for multiple vendors who sell the product in question)? If not, can this be suggested for a future release? For car enthusiast sites, this would be gold. We will almost always have multiple shops carrying the same products.

2. Would it be easy for the admin to quickly pull down all affiliate links for a single vendor if necessary?

[ludachris]

Another suggestion would be to give certain vendor usergroups the ability to add their own affiliate links to each product on the front end... if you have sponsors who will add their own links, this would be huge for admins.

[sgbmad]

Originally Posted by sgbmad

Great but I receive allways the same error when I submit a review:

"Oh great, you had to go and press THAT button. There goes the whole site. Just kidding... We had an issue posting your review, please try again or contact support and use code 164250-E"

My settings:

http://i.imgur.com/ylia1.png

I tried to use different configurations without success.

I would like to use this hack....

Thanks.

Somebody knows some solution for this?

Thanks.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by sgbmad

Great but I receive allways the same error:

"Oh great, you had to go and press THAT button. There goes the whole site. Just kidding... We had an issue posting your review, please try again or contact support and use code 164250-E"

My settings:

http://i.imgur.com/ylia1.png

I tried to use different configurations without success.

I would like to use this hack....

Thanks.

You have not filled out the settings for where to put new products thus the mod can't add them.

[sgbmad]

Originally Posted by Ted S

You have not filled out the settings for where to put new products thus the mod can't add them.

Thanks Ted.

Well, with this settings I have the same error

http://i.imgur.com/uZSb1.png

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by sgbmad

Thanks Ted.

Well, with this settings I have the same error

http://i.imgur.com/uZSb1.png

Try this version of productforums.php which will print debugging code.

[sgbmad]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Try this version of productforums.php which will print debugging code.

Thank you so much Ted.

I commented "Your review comments must be at least " line and I added a ";" in the line 460.

But does not show something different.



Thank you again Ted.

[Ted S]

Your forum is throwing errors every time the script goes to create a post.

Here's a debug version that traps all of the errors in that routine.

[sgbmad]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Your forum is throwing errors every time the script goes to create a post.

Here's a debug version that traps all of the errors in that routine.

Now it shows this error:

"something failed at 164250-B...
Array ( [0] => The message you have entered is too short. Please lengthen your message to at least 5 characters. ) "

Thanks for your help Ted.