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.

[addamroy]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Hrm....

Perhaps the script is erroring before the database gets updated... Do any of the mainphoto or thumb values exist in the table prf?

There is no prf table, they're all pf_ , but I looked in the pf_product table and I believe the values are not there, (assuming I'm looking in the right place).

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by addamroy

There is no prf table, they're all pf_ , but I looked in the pf_product table and I believe the values are not there, (assuming I'm looking in the right place).

Looks like a bug in the bulk script...

Please try removing all the existing thumbnail / smaller versions and running it with the attached version of admincp/productforums.php

[deverill2010]

I'm using an older version (can't upgrade due to changes I made which I can no longer remember).

Anyhow it has been working for ages as far as I'm aware, however I just went to post a review on the front end of the site but got this -

Oh great, you had to go and press THAT button. There goes the whole site. Just kidding...

We had an issue posting your review, please try again or contact support and use code 164251-E.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by deverill2010

I'm using an older version (can't upgrade due to changes I made which I can no longer remember).

Anyhow it has been working for ages as far as I'm aware, however I just went to post a review on the front end of the site but got this -

Oh great, you had to go and press THAT button. There goes the whole site. Just kidding...

We had an issue posting your review, please try again or contact support and use code 164251-E.

That error indicates an issue with making the post for the review.

How you go about fixing it is of course difficult if you're not willing to upgrade but in many cases these errors are due to other settings (like requiring prefixes) that we've since build workarounds for).

If you search productforums.php for that error code you can find the section that triggers it and force a hard error (i.e. see the exact problem) by adding the code echo $errors; die; before the eval code.

[zapiy]

I have removed this mod as it did not get used.. sadly the admin menus are still in place how do i remove them?

Thanks

[Toorak Times]

Zapiy, I don't think members will generally get it, best used as a shop I reckon

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by zapiy

I have removed this mod as it did not get used.. sadly the admin menus are still in place how do i remove them?

Thanks

You need to delete all of the files uploaded as uninstalling can not do this for you.

[GCC LLC]

Ted, do you see any reason why this mod would not work in a mobile theme? The prodforum_* templates did not exist in the mobile skin, so we manually created them all there but the links are not clicking from the review forum and when we manually go to a review thread, it's not showing the product information at the top of the thread - it just looks like a regular vb mobile thread display.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by GCC LLC

Ted, do you see any reason why this mod would not work in a mobile theme? The prodforum_* templates did not exist in the mobile skin, so we manually created them all there but the links are not clicking from the review forum and when we manually go to a review thread, it's not showing the product information at the top of the thread - it just looks like a regular vb mobile thread display.

Are the right hooks in your mobile theme to pull the templates in?

Perhaps the best bet is to add a couple "echo" statements around the xml file for a quick test to see if it's a problem with the mod getting called up or the templates showing up.

echo "this shows up";

[GCC LLC]

Ted, sent you a PM about it. Thanks!