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.

[Sforums]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Sforum,

Unfortunately while we've had the issue happen on one test server we can not recreate it on demand... good for meaning it won't happen, bad for making sure. The mod has been pulled as we look into this and will not be reposted until we are certain it is gone... however if you have any information on when this occurred, such as right after an upgrade, durign a review or posting a product that would be very helpful.

Our goal is to confirm the new version and roll this out in stable form to use on live sites.

Well first problem was empty post, just as many others experienced it.
The moment I tried uninstalling, forum went nuts and every single thread and post were renamed as product I tried to post. I can't remember much, I was pannicking and really upset about it. As I said, this mod has great potential and I really need it. Will be checking this thread for updates.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Sforums

Well first problem was empty post, just as many others experienced it.
The moment I tried uninstalling, forum went nuts and every single thread and post were renamed as product I tried to post. I can't remember much, I was pannicking and really upset about it. As I said, this mod has great potential and I really need it. Will be checking this thread for updates.

What do you mean by "empty post"?

[Sforums]

Originally Posted by Ted S

What do you mean by "empty post"?

Same as described in post 60 in this thread:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...=269808&page=4

[carsafety]

Originally Posted by Ted S

As much as vBulletin can be a platform, out of the box a mod is not going to cut it. Sure this will let you have some review threads but it's still premised on forums without most of the features you would need to stand out. Data is by far the biggest challenge for large product focused sites and of course if you want to play in this space you are not the first -- thus you must stand out..

Thanks again! As long as it displays nicely on Vbulletin's own mobile style in vB4, that would be sufficient. It is a niche site and this plugin might be exactly what I need. Hopefully you are able to get the issue resolved and somone will make public a test site so we can take a look and play with it live. Since I'll essentially be starting from scratch, I may just try it to play with it anyway if you are able to fix the bug and publish it again.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by carsafety

Thanks again! As long as it displays nicely on Vbulletin's own mobile style in vB4, that would be sufficient. It is a niche site and this plugin might be exactly what I need. Hopefully you are able to get the issue resolved and somone will make public a test site so we can take a look and play with it live. Since I'll essentially be starting from scratch, I may just try it to play with it anyway if you are able to fix the bug and publish it again.

The bug has not been reported in any new installs, nor is there any testing that has been able to duplicate it in such setups. Doesn't mean it's gone but it's perfectly safe to try on a test site.

You can find the files a few posts back.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Sforums

Same as described in post 60 in this thread:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...=269808&page=4

Either the templates are not applying to each of your styles or there is a bad url. When you install the mod again we can sort that out easy enough.

[owning_y0u]

tagged, and downloaded the files, only waiting for the product.xml

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by owning_y0u

tagged, and downloaded the files, only waiting for the product.xml

The mod is offline pending bug fixes. As no one can [intentionally] recreate the bug as of yet, there is no ETA on when it will be fixed.

[owning_y0u]

Originally Posted by Ted S

The mod is offline pending bug fixes. As no one can [intentionally] recreate the bug as of yet, there is no ETA on when it will be fixed.

i have read that ;-) currently testings things on my test forum so i wont mind testing it out for you. and do more then my best to recreate the bug's i found if you want?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by owning_y0u

i have read that ;-) currently testings things on my test forum so i wont mind testing it out for you. and do more then my best to recreate the bug's i found if you want?

Absolutely.

To be clear, the bug is not minor -- it involves all thread titles being renamed so you should not be running this on a live forum unless you have a lot of guts, and backups. That's why it still has the beta tag.

In short, we're trying to see if we can make that issue happen somehow. Unfortunately while some users have had that issue, no one on our test team, or who is using the mod has been able to figure out exactly what caused it or when in the process... And we can't force it to happen to stop it from happening.

At this point it seems that only upgrades had the issue but we're still testing to make sure.