Is better to say what is NOT . For sure is not that mod requested for years now at this thread. But is a good Reviews system for those who want to review one type of items (eg Games, Books, Autos etc) and one group of rating questions is ok for them. With the help of extra fields and a bit works from your side to configure it, you can have a very good reviews section in your site.
Supports unlimited categories
You can set the word that will be use in the pages to identify the type of your reviews (eg Game - Games, Book - Books etc)
Supports Extra fields (but not searchable)
Supports one group of rating questions (but unlimited questions)
Supports Product photos or YouTube video if exists
Has PM templates for:
PM user when admin approves his Review
PM user when admin rejects Review
Revier can temporary hide the review and a later time he can activate it again.
There are listings for:
Category Reviews
Timeframe (What's New) Reviews
User Reviews
Search Results
In view Review page the visitor can see also:
Editor Rating
Community Rating
Lowest Rating
Highest Rating
Editor other reviews on sidebar
In all pages there are available the follow blocks having the appearance of widgets:
Category Menu
Search Form
Statistics
Top Editor Products (Games, Books, etc)
Top Community Products
New Reviews
New Community Ratings
RSS Feeds for latest 10 reviews
Facebook Like Advanced (Shows users who liked a review)
ver.1.1.0 Added a setting to allow or not Audio files (in case that you want to review music). Default is OFF. If you turn on then the users can hear the audio file with the included (simple) audio player.
2.- Installation
Download and unzip the file Reviews_XXXX.zip
Upload the content of upload folder to the directory where your vB installation is. As a check: reviews.php must be on the same directoru as global.php, forum.php etc. SL Reviews are not working out of vB installation directory.
CMOD 777 the directories:
christeris/reviews/photos
christeris/reviews/photos/thumbs
christeris/reviews/photos/tmp
Goto Admincp and import product-reviews.xml. Double check before if you have another product with the same name.
Set the various settings in Reviews->General settings
Set usergroup permissions
Check and modify if you want PM templates.
Set categories
Set Extra fields (in case that you want them).
Set Rating Questions
*** ATTENTION *** Double check that rating questins are ok before starting adding reviews. After the first review you CAN'T Add/Edit/Delete questions.
3.- SEO URLs
If you're using vbSeo open the file Reviews_vBSEO_Custom_Rewrite_Rules.txt and add them to your vbSeo installation.
If you're using .htaccasse file copy the contents of htaccess.txt and add it to your current .htaccess files. If you don't have such file and your server is compatible with such files, upload htaccess.txt to your vB directory and rename it to: .htaccess
4.- CMS Widget / Forum Sidebar block for Latest Reviews
Pre-Installation:
Shows latest 5 Reviews. If you want to change the number to another value change at 1st line: $maxreviews = 5;
Installation as CMS Widget
Goto Admincp-> vBulletin CMS-> Widgets
Click "Create New Widget" at the list bottom
Set Widget Type: PHP Direct Execution
Give a Title which appears at the widget. eg Last Reviews, or.. Last 5 Reviews etc
Click SAVE
Find in the list the new widget and click configure at the right side
Replace the example code, with the code from Widget_Block_Latest_Reviews.txt
Click Save
Goto Layout and add it in any section you want
Click Save (Layout)
Installation as Forum sidebar Block
Goto Admincp-> Forums & Moderators -> Forum Block Manager
Click Add Block
In the next screen "Select block type: Custom HTML/PHP"
Click Continue
Title: Latest Reviews
Content Type: PHP
Content: Copy & Paste the code from Widget_Block_Latest_Reviews.txt
Click Save. The block will be now visible to your forum sidebar
5.- Copyright link
Since the time that DBTech released their Copyright Manager, I've removed my own copyrights. I found their action insulting me to maximum. Their wording "Site is powered by vBulletin AddOns and Modules by Dragonbyte Tech" (and not "Some parts of this site"), means that everything there is their own work, ignoring on the worst way the fact that there are 100's of other coders and designers who are supporting this community for years. So, I'm letting the glory to them. No copyrights from my side.
Enjoy it
Christos Teriakis
aka ChrisTERiS
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This modification may not be copied, reproduced or published elsewhere without author's permission.
As you can see here the 3 people have rated a 10, 7 and a 10 but says they're avg is only a 4.3 for the game. I had deleted demouser3's rating last night and rated again.
Hey Chris!! So happy to see you doing more Vb mods!! i love your work and will be sending a donation when I can.
I have a question about Vbseo.. I believe we add the rewrites to Vbseo so there is no need to add anything to the htaccess if using Vbseo? is this correct?
I am looking forward to trying the classifieds mod as well!! This one I have installed and am testing currently but so far it is amazing. I am almost certain I will be nominating at least one of these for motm!
reviews_h_photo : "Select a Photo that best shows the review that you are selling. Don't forget that a photo is worth of 1,000 words!!"
This mod is for post reviews, not sell (copy/paste of classified mod ^^)
reviews_h_title : "A short and meanful title is the best way to attract potential buyers. Avoid use of capital letters unless if it's about a model type. Words like Great offer etc will be removed."
As you can see here the 3 people have rated a 10, 7 and a 10 but says they're avg is only a 4.3 for the game. I had deleted demouser3's rating last night and rated again.
Hey Chris!! So happy to see you doing more Vb mods!! i love your work and will be sending a donation when I can.
I have a question about Vbseo.. I believe we add the rewrites to Vbseo so there is no need to add anything to the htaccess if using Vbseo? is this correct?
I am looking forward to trying the classifieds mod as well!! This one I have installed and am testing currently but so far it is amazing. I am almost certain I will be nominating at least one of these for motm!
Thanks,
Richie
PS-I voted Excellent!
Hello Richie,
Thank you for your supporting words. I'm not guru with vbseo (just know the syntax), but I believe that the best way is to add in custom rules OR in .htaccess file. Not both.
reviews_h_photo : "Select a Photo that best shows the review that you are selling. Don't forget that a photo is worth of 1,000 words!!"
This mod is for post reviews, not sell (copy/paste of classified mod ^^)
reviews_h_title : "A short and meanful title is the best way to attract potential buyers. Avoid use of capital letters unless if it's about a model type. Words like Great offer etc will be removed."
Next time I'll release my mods in Greek, and let you translate all the phrases instead correcting a couple of them ....lol.... I'm kidding. Thank you. I'll correct them in the next version. Already released 1.2.0 so its late now.
Next time I'll release my mods in Greek, and let you translate all the phrases instead correcting a couple of them ....lol.... I'm kidding. Thank you. I'll correct them in the next version. Already released 1.2.0 so its late now.
He meant meaningful...lol...I'm a newspaper editor Chris...at your command...
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. For sure is not that mod requested for years now at this thread. But is a good Reviews system for those who want to review one type of items (eg Games, Books, Autos etc) and one group of rating questions is ok for them. With the help of extra fields and a bit works from your side to configure it, you can have a very good reviews section in your site.
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