Lets combine funds for a Reviews CMS with business/product directory

[Alfa1]

Its really nice to see that this thread has so far resulted in one released addon and two forthcoming addons.

Adrian, that looks nice!

Chris, I took a peak at your demo site and this surely looks promising. I like your approach.

I have added another feature to the list:

• Allow for thousands of categories

The reasoning behind this feature is that vbulletin can not have more than 500-1000 forums, as it will cause performance issues and over 1000 - 1500 forums will result in functionality loss due to forum manager limitations.
If a site already has a significant number of forums, then reviews and directories can easily accumulate to 500+
For example: one of my company directories has categories per country & state and therefore has hundreds of categories.
The affiliate network automatic population function, will will allow us to quickly add a mass of entries, for which we will naturally need a mass of categories.

[ForumsMods]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

Its really nice to see that this thread has so far resulted in one released addon and two forthcoming addons.

Adrian, that looks nice!

Chris, I took a peak at your demo site and this surely looks promising. I like your approach.

I have added another feature to the list:

• Allow for thousands of categories

The reasoning behind this feature is that vbulletin can not have more than 500-1000 forums, as it will cause performance issues and over 1000 - 1500 forums will result in functionality loss due to forum manager limitations.
If a site already has a significant number of forums, then reviews and directories can easily accumulate to 500+
For example: one of my company directories has categories per country & state and therefore has hundreds of categories.
The affiliate network automatic population function, will will allow us to quickly add a mass of entries, for which we will naturally need a mass of categories.

Is planned for a near future to use forums or separate tables.

[Alfa1]

The overview you have posted is gone.

I hope that you will consider all the features in the functionality list, because the ones that you excluded so far, are the ones that bring in the cash.

[ForumsMods]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

The overview you have posted is gone.

I hope that you will consider all the features in the functionality list, because the ones that you excluded so far, are the ones that bring in the cash.

The post was deleted.

I deleted your post about your content management system. We do not allow the advertisement of paid mods here, by your own description it would require buying a license to use.

Do not post about it again here.

All features from the list will be implemented.

Added new template for Products and Games.
New template for Real Estate soon.

[bigtree]

Originally Posted by ForumsMods

Is planned for a near future to use forums or separate tables.

Wow, sounds like you guys need a CMS built around Reviews with a Forum as a support service. I cannot imagine 1000 forums, even 200! That number seems insane. O few servers running that comes to mind. Am I missing something ? 99.9 % of the people are most likely well under this amount. More like between 50 and 100 seems to be the norm.

Never the less, looking forward to all these new releases!!!

Happy New Year everyone!

[Alfa1]

Originally Posted by ForumsMods

The post was deleted.
All features from the list will be implemented.

Added new template for Products and Games.
New template for Real Estate soon.

I guess you need to state something about a lite version, to be able to discuss this further.

[ForumsMods]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

I guess you need to state something about a lite version, to be able to discuss this further.

2) Paid hack or commercial addons can be discussed. However, authors of the commercial hack or addon cannot start threads discussing their own products. If they are found using another account to circumvent this rule, all accounts involved will be banned.

After gold release, a lite version will be released here but did not decide what features to include yet.

New template for Real Estate (you can see custom fields in threadbit)

[Delazar]

@ ForumsMods

Whan is the gold Version available?

[ForumsMods]

Originally Posted by Delazar

@ ForumsMods

Whan is the gold Version available?

When all 'in progress' features are finished.
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Text = In Progress
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Text= Not Implemented (Next tasks to be implemented)

• Reviews should have different sections, so you could for example have sections for movie reviews, restaurant reviews and product reviews.
• permissions per section
• The overview of reviews of each section, should allow for different display options, to be set by the admin.
• A review can be in multiple categories/sections.
• Reviews should have:
• Author ratings, with pretty AJAX stars, bars and other pretty rating scales.
• Member ratings
• Combined rating averages.
• Rating value should have an alt text. For example: if you choose to have ratings with 1 - 5 stars, then hovering over a 5 star rating could state 'excellent', while hovering over a 1 star rating could stat
• Admins should be able to define rating questions and custom fields.
• Custom fields should allow:
  1. fields that work like tags. i.e. clicking on the word 'spaghetti' in a custom field would lead to all restaurants that serve spaghetti.
  2. fields with AJAX autofill functions.
  3. single line text fields
  4. multiple line text fields
  5. mandatory fields
  6. tickbox fields
  7. payment methods icons
• Google maps integration.
• Product video playing inline (youtube, vimeo, etc)
• Amazon.com & other major affiliate network integration (automatically pull prices from Clickbank, Commission Junction and Amazon and add affiliateID to purchase link)
• Automatic population of fields from amazon/other affiliate networks by ISBN or productID: image, product title, author, description, product details(up to weight)
• Allow paid listing trough subscriptions and paid expanded listings. When a user pays for an expanded listing more custom fields become visible. For example: url, extended description, products & prices, offers, photos, Google maps, logo, etc.
• A 'featured' widget that shows x companies. Companies can buy a listing in this widget.
• Allow online and offline payments.
• Allow users to claim listings. (for example: a restaurant owner can claim the listing for his restaurant and buy features for it)
• When users claim listings or when listing owners buy expanded listings, first then let them agree to T&C.
• After the user has agreed to it, also send a notification by email that they have agreed to the T&C.
• Setting to moderate all edits & content posted by listing owners. (to avoid spam & unwanted content)
• Allow users to post feedback to reviewed company. (visible in the listing, but separated from normal comments)
• If the listing is claimed, then send this feedback to the owner. (email/pm) This feature can be bought by the listing owner.
• Permission setting to hide comments to listing owner.
• Permission setting to hide listings not owned by user.
• Ability to compare prices of all vendors that sell product X
• Summary charts for all restaurants that serve Y. i.e. a table that lists those restaurant, with the data from custom fields, as the admin defines.
• Search for restaurants that have specific data in custom fields X, Y and Z.
• Use rich snippets so that Google will show reviews & ratings
• Reviews should be loaded with interactive AJAX/jquery functions.
• CkEditor for users and admin side
• Infractions & moderation tools
• Reputation
• CMS widgets
• New entries & comments in 'What's New'
• Searchable with vb search engine / Sphinx
• Subscribe to entry
• Tags
• Usergroup permissions
• Use of vb attachment system
• vb postbit is shown
• vb avatar is shown
• profiles link to vb profile
• design can be integrated
• GARS importer

[Christos Teriakis]

And here are some screenshots from me. I'm coding a simple Review AddOn and nothing more. There are no exotic features and will never be. But it has 100% of the features that you'll find in stand alone scripts. My intention is to be simple in use, with a design that will not looks like one more forum, stable, secure, and most important easy in modification. There are comments on every action, and I'm not using any vB functions which (most probably) will be changed to the next vB upgrade.

PS:
1.- As its not clear in the screenshot for Amentities, please note that you can set an unlimited amount of group icons, and assign them to categories. eg Hotels will have different set of icons than Computers etc.
2.- About the Affiliates links that you maybe seen in the permissions. Keep cool. It's not something like in the feature list. Its very simple, but I believe that this is what most users wants. According to usergroup permissions a user can add Links like: Buy it from Amazon at $390 (hand written text) and place the link with his affiliate code. He can add as many links as he wants.

Chris