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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QUICK TIPS:
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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.

[ashimashi]

Originally Posted by Ted S

There is not a GUI to do that but it is certainly something you can do if you extend the addon.

How do I do that exactly? I would love a quick tutorial on that if possible. I am sure many others would love to learn this as well. I already know how to remove unwanted fields like SKU and UPC that I removed when adding products.

let me know
Thanks

[Subieforums]

Love this mod, but I am having a hard time getting the images to show up when I upload them. My current forum settings are on a test server. So my site path would be: http://www.mysite.com/test/forum/productreviews (that is where I put the folder for the images to go to)

In the core settings, I am having issues and am getting errors when I go to upload the photo.

The core settings suggest: [i.e. /var/www/home/forum/productphotos]

So I assume my path would be /public_html/test/forum/productphotos ?

I am just a bit confused on how to set my paths. Also I assume that will affect the image view url?

The second issue I am having is getting the image to show as the forum thread image. So when the member goes to the forum section reviews, they would see the product image to the left of the thread description etc. Do we have to create this image ourselves, or is there a way it will make the image resized itself? I am able to make it work by adding the url to the image file i just resized but was not sure if once I get the upload to work, if it'll automatically do this for me. Thanks

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

[Subieforums]

Also, the stars are not working for me on the review page itself:

http://www.subieforums.com/test/show...back-08-12-STi

Thanks

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by ashimashi

How do I do that exactly? I would love a quick tutorial on that if possible. I am sure many others would love to learn this as well. I already know how to remove unwanted fields like SKU and UPC that I removed when adding products.

let me know
Thanks

Look back through the thread... The details were posted up a few pages ago as an overview of what you'd need to do.

Removing fields is as simple as editing the write a review template in the frontend and ignoring them in the backend.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Subieforums

Also, the stars are not working for me on the review page itself:

http://www.subieforums.com/test/show...back-08-12-STi

Thanks

Did you upload the stars to your images folder? If so, where is it?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Subieforums

Love this mod, but I am having a hard time getting the images to show up when I upload them. My current forum settings are on a test server. So my site path would be: http://www.mysite.com/test/forum/productreviews (that is where I put the folder for the images to go to)

In the core settings, I am having issues and am getting errors when I go to upload the photo.

The core settings suggest: [i.e. /var/www/home/forum/productphotos]

So I assume my path would be /public_html/test/forum/productphotos ?

That's really not something I can answer as every server is different.

1. This path needs to be from root, so in this case you are stating that /public_html/ is your first level folder, that sounds unlikely for most linux boxes but if you view the folder via FTP you can quickly confirm if anything is actually going into it.

2. The other path is a display link that corresponds to where images in that folder appear relative to your site. Thus if you're placing them in the /forum/ level folder [from web-root] the path would be /forum/productforums/.

I am just a bit confused on how to set my paths. Also I assume that will affect the image view url?

If the path is wrong the image can't be created so yes, that would impact things

The second issue I am having is getting the image to show as the forum thread image. So when the member goes to the forum section reviews, they would see the product image to the left of the thread description etc.

Please read the install guide. This is not done out of the box and requires code hacking.

Do we have to create this image ourselves, or is there a way it will make the image resized itself? I am able to make it work by adding the url to the image file i just resized but was not sure if once I get the upload to work, if it'll automatically do this for me

External urls are not resized. Uploaded or synced images [you can have the script sync urls] are.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Noerenberg

Yes it is.

Is the option enabled in your PRF settings?

Use WYSIWYG Editor
Displays the advanced editor for new reviews. If you are experiencing issues with the display or validation, you should disable this.

[Noerenberg]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Is the option enabled in your PRF settings?

Use WYSIWYG Editor
Displays the advanced editor for new reviews. If you are experiencing issues with the display or validation, you should disable this.

YES

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Noerenberg

YES

The mod picks up that setting and your forum configuration. Other than that it's the same exact editor used for posting. Thus if it's not displaying there is either a setting you have overlooked or an error in how it is rendering in your specific forum.

Are you getting any javascript errors loading the page? Any 404 requests in your server logs?

[Noerenberg]

Originally Posted by Ted S

The mod picks up that setting and your forum configuration. Other than that it's the same exact editor used for posting. Thus if it's not displaying there is either a setting you have overlooked or an error in how it is rendering in your specific forum.

Are you getting any javascript errors loading the page? Any 404 requests in your server logs?

I got no errors , nothing.
I dont know which setting i have to check, the standard editor is the WYSIWYG Editor.