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.

[Goatpod]

Originally Posted by Volvoholic

Thanks Goatpod but the setting was already selected to "No". This is an empty post is still displayed.

Have you disabled new posts in the forum that the review is being posted to?

[Volvoholic]

Originally Posted by Goatpod

Have you disabled new posts in the forum that the review is being posted to?

No. I wasn't aware that had to be. I will do that. Just to confirm, that is done thru ACP - Forum & Moderators - Forum Manager - Specific forum?

Also I have searched for the phrase you provided and could not find the $

Here is my prodforums_product_details

<vb:if condition="$product['mfrg']">
<div id="pf_mfrg">
{vb:phrase prodforums_mfrgd,{vb:raw product.mfrg}}
</div><br />
</vb:if>
							
<vb:if condition="$product['price']">

[Goatpod]

Originally Posted by Volvoholic

No. I wasn't aware that had to be. I will do that. Just to confirm, that is done thru ACP - Forum & Moderators - Forum Manager - Specific forum?

Also I have searched for the phrase you provided and could not find the $

Here is my prodforums_product_details

<vb:if condition="$product['mfrg']">
<div id="pf_mfrg">
{vb:phrase prodforums_mfrgd,{vb:raw product.mfrg}}
</div><br />
</vb:if>
							
<vb:if condition="$product['price']">

Ah, sorry I must have remembered incorrectly I'll have a look later (cooking tea at the mo') and see if I can find it.

[TheSupportForum]

Originally Posted by Goatpod

I got rid of this by setting "Create New Thread on Review" to 'no' in the settings. Now it just posts the review in the right place instead of creating the empty thread as well.



IIRC, do a template search for

{vb:phrase prodforums_mfrgd,{vb:raw product.mfrg}}

There's a rogue $ sign just before.

nope its a phrase issuelook for phrase

Manufacturer: ${1}

change it to

Manufacturer: {1}

[Volvoholic]

Originally Posted by simonhind

nope its a phrase issuelook for phrase

Manufacturer: ${1}

change it to

Manufacturer: {1}

Thanks. That did the trick. Found it in Phrase prodforums_mfrgd

I still have the problem of "This is an empty post" appearing in the forum body. I have run out of ideas.

[bada_bing]

This mod does not seem to work for me and no response from the developer, is this safe to say its time to uninstall

[Mr_Running]

I posted a few concerns and I am stuck on version 1.0.1 Beta as I can not able to upgrade or unistall this product. Therefore I have this version disabled.

I have a question: If you have a mod that will not unistall is there a workaround?

[TheSupportForum]

Originally Posted by Volvoholic

Thanks. That did the trick. Found it in Phrase prodforums_mfrgd

I still have the problem of "This is an empty post" appearing in the forum body. I have run out of ideas.

this only occurs due to the forum settings for this mod is not enabled

Admincp > Forums & Moderators > Forum Manager

choose the forum you wisht o enable it in
click edit forum

under Enable / Disable Features

look for
Enable Product Review Forum Features?

select Yes to enable

[TheSupportForum]

Originally Posted by Mr_Running

I posted a few concerns and I am stuck on version 1.0.1 Beta as I can not able to upgrade or unistall this product. Therefore I have this version disabled.

I have a question: If you have a mod that will not unistall is there a workaround?

disable the plugins
then try uninstall

[Volvoholic]

Originally Posted by simonhind

this only occurs due to the forum settings for this mod is not enabled

Admincp > Forums & Moderators > Forum Manager

choose the forum you wisht o enable it in
click edit forum

under Enable / Disable Features

look for
Enable Product Review Forum Features?

select Yes to enable

Hi Simonhind,

Yup, did all that. Still showing me This is an empty post