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 Killhunter

By the way.. where is the price in this screenshot?

That's unrelated to the issue at hand. Adding a known bug to an individual issue does not help you resolve your site's problem.

Originally Posted by Killhunter

What whould you do if you had this bug?

For starters, I'd stop calling it a bug when it's specific to my site. Then I'd go out and figure what from my individual style was causing the change in how the page renders. Firebug for firefox is a nice tool for checking style output. And while I was at it I'd upgrade my forum so I wasn't running a version a full rev-cycle behind with known issues and compatibility problems. But that's just me.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by abieteh.com

Thank you , I will waiting for new version . You are awesome.

Thanks!

[Volvoholic]

Hi TED_S

Is there a way to display the reviews in alphabetical order by default?

By the way, its an awesome mod - Thank you!

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Volvoholic

Hi TED_S

Is there a way to display the reviews in alphabetical order by default?

By the way, its an awesome mod - Thank you!

Thanks...

I'm not sure what you mean though? Order the reviews alphabetically implies going off of the comments, or did you mean the review scores? And if so, are you trying to order threads or posts within a single thread?

[Ted S]

Product Review forum users, we're looking at adding Facebook timeline support in to the app for a new release however this will require you to setup a developer portal, create an open graph actions and a few other steps so before we trek down this road we've got a few questions to see if there's interest...

1. Would take the time to setup a facebook app?

2. Would you let user's reviews post their timeline [with their express permission]?

3. Does your forum use facebook connect options?

4. If so, how many users do you know / estimate are connected?

Example of how timeline posts show up in the ticker are attached

[Volvoholic]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Thanks...

I'm not sure what you mean though? Order the reviews alphabetically implies going off of the comments, or did you mean the review scores? And if so, are you trying to order threads or posts within a single thread?

I would like to arrange the Products in the Products & Review Index page alphabetically by default. It just seems a mess when the products are arranged by order of creation. Is this possible to achieve?

I have attached a photo of a few test reviews.

[Ted S]

Oh i gotcha...

We can change this moving forward as it makes sense but for now just open up upload/productforums.php and find:

default:
            $sqlsort = 'createddate';

Change that too

default:
            $sqlsort = 'pfp.title';

[Volvoholic]

TED_S, you rock !

That did the trick. One thing tho', the sort order is reversed with Z at the top and A at the bottom of the index table.

I did see $sortorder in the php file but I do not have the coding skills to mess with that. Is there a way to get A to the top of the index table?

Many thanks again TED_S.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Volvoholic

TED_S, you rock !

That did the trick. One thing tho', the sort order is reversed with Z at the top and A at the bottom of the index table.

I did see $sortorder in the php file but I do not have the coding skills to mess with that. Is there a way to get A to the top of the index table?

Many thanks again TED_S.

Ya, right below that change is $oppositesort = 'desc'; change that to 'asc'

[abieteh.com]

Ted can you help me to register {vb:raw product.description} in showthread template ? And in next step can i do something to put just 20 second words for example?

Its very critically issue for me ( seo issue ) .