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.

[deverill2010]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Is it always showing 4? Do you have the WYSIWYG editor enabled elsewhere?

Yep it always showing 4, I don't have WYSIWYG enabledon the site nor in this mod.

My Message Posting Interface Options are all set to enable standard controls.

[deverill2010]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Can you look at the path for one of your images in the database [ie select mainphoto from pf_product where productid = XXX] and tell me if there's anything in that folder with a similar name?

Ok this is what it looks like -

Attachment 140597

For the ones I am having trouble with i.e no images show up.

The image files it is calling are not in the folder.

The ones which are working the images it is calling are in the folder.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by deverill2010

Yep it always showing 4, I don't have WYSIWYG enabledon the site nor in this mod.

My Message Posting Interface Options are all set to enable standard controls.

That should make things easier but it also deviates from the typical options...

Upload this version of upload/productforums.php which will add debug code [remove it once you've copied the results if you're using it on a live forum].

[deverill2010]

I don't have a folder called upload?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by deverill2010

I don't have a folder called upload?

Whoops... Upload refers to your root folder in vB.

[deverill2010]

Um it gave me this -

start debug
used backup message
check review length
use mod option
failed entirely

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by deverill2010

Um it gave me this -

start debug
used backup message
check review length
use mod option
failed entirely

Ok, now we know what's wrong. This version may help tell us what's right...

[deverill2010]

Ok uploaded the file and when trying to add a review I still get -

Your review comments must be at least 50 characters long. It was 4

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by deverill2010

Ok uploaded the file and when trying to add a review I still get -

Your review comments must be at least 50 characters long. It was 4

Nothing was changed to stop the error... But more debug code was added which I need to see the output from.

[deverill2010]

start debug
used backup message:
check review length
use mod option
failed entirely