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 Noerenberg

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

All of them. The mod picks up your forum's settings for the editor.

What's the url to the write a review page?

[Subieforums]

Originally Posted by Ted S

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

Yes, I uploaded it as described. I noticed that the url for the image shows two "-", is that what it's supposed to be?

http://www.subieforums.com/test/images/rating/pf/stars--5.png

When I look in the folder, there is no "stars--5.png".

Thanks! Looking into your other help now.

[Subieforums]

Originally Posted by Ted S

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/.



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



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



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

Tried different variations. I attached a screen shot.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Subieforums

Tried different variations. I attached a screen shot.

If you don't know your server paths check with your hosting provider ans ask them for the location from root to your forum folder.

There is a literally infinite number of options and thus no way for me to be able to tell you what your individual settings should be.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Subieforums

Yes, I uploaded it as described. I noticed that the url for the image shows two "-", is that what it's supposed to be?

http://www.subieforums.com/test/images/rating/pf/stars--5.png

When I look in the folder, there is no "stars--5.png".

Thanks! Looking into your other help now.

Good catch. The first value is the color of the stars {green or pink} which you need to set in your admin options. This should be a default but those don't always stick.

[Subieforums]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Good catch. The first value is the color of the stars {green or pink} which you need to set in your admin options. This should be a default but those don't always stick.

Ok, the color was selected, but I changed the colors around in the drop down, saved, and now working so thanks. I'll check on the forum path issue and keep you posted, thanks!

[TomasDR]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Escaping the string is essential for preventing injections so good call on working through that...

We'll be redoing the search function a bit in light of your bug report and will try to test with a few mySQLi connections as well.

All I did was use VB's standards and it worked.

Replaced all instances of:

mysql_real_escape_string

With

$db->escape_string

Works fine now and I believe I am still safe.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by TomasDR

All I did was use VB's standards and it worked.

Replaced all instances of:

mysql_real_escape_string

With

$db->escape_string

Works fine now and I believe I am still safe.

That's a totally safe approach which uses mysql_real_escape_string or whatever version is relevant for your mySQL / db install. We'll move over to this for best practices in the next version...

[Subieforums]

Got this just about ironed out and absolutely love it!

Just one question however, I am trying to get it so the "Post New Thread" button actually is "Add New Product" like in this screenshot: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...1&d=1342151619

Any quick answer to that, thanks!

[Noerenberg]

Originally Posted by Ted S

All of them. The mod picks up your forum's settings for the editor.

What's the url to the write a review page?

EDIT

DELETE

After 10 days of waiting tzzzzzzzzz