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.

[snakedevil]

A little too complicated for me

[WildWayz]

Hi guys

Thanks for creating this brilliant addon - working like a charm

Just got a very easy question (i hope) but how do I change the currency from $ into ??

Or even make it user-selectable?

Thanks!

[WildWayz]

Found it in Phrases


However, is there a mod to make it a dropdown?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by WildWayz

Found it in Phrases


However, is there a mod to make it a dropdown?

Nope.

[snakedevil]

Hello, how to display the list alphabetically?

here: forum/productforums.php

Thanks !

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by snakedevil

Hello, how to display the list alphabetically?

here: forum/productforums.php

Thanks !

Hack the script and change the query to ORDER BY title ASC as default

[snakedevil]

Line ?

It's ok thanks !

[addamroy]

Originally Posted by Ted S

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

Sorry for the delay, had other things to do prior to addressing this.

This fix worked. Thank you!

[addamroy]

New issue though. The 'matches' page that lists the reviews of a particular product, the page you are viewing when you click the 'reviews' area of a product in the product list, it doesn't load properly.

The reviews show 'outside' the body of the main forum, almost like there's a missing div tag, or some sort of issue like that I can't figure it out.

Like if you view, yourforum.com.com/productforums.php?do=matches&productid=4

it's layed out wrong for some reason.

It's correct here, yourforum.com/productforums.php just not on the matches page to view reviews.

I tried to open both templates side by side to see what could be missing from the matches one but I couldn't figure it out. I suppose it's possible the issue is in the productforums.php file itself but I'm not sure.

A fix for this would be appreciated.

edit; I'd also like to know if there's any simple way, or known websites we can get this xml file to import mass products from? If a website's RSS feed is in xml format, is there a way to use that?

I mean I definitely don't have any scraping software to go through websites, compile all the exact data I need them format it into an XML file I can import into the product :P Any help on this would be appreciated by myself and many others I'm sure.

[addamroy]

Soo any tips of advice on getting our hands on an XML sheet like I mentioned in my above comment?