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]

Hello,

How to change the display order of comments, to show the new first (only for the product)

Thank you

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by snakedevil

Hello,

How to change the display order of comments, to show the new first (only for the product)

Thank you

Comments are replies. Just change how the forum is setup to order by reply date descending rather than ascending.

[RaiinbowEyes]

When trying to add a product today, I got this error: "Something went terribly wrong in creating your product (Array). End of the line. Admin-1027a". I have no idea what to do. Help?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by RaiinbowEyes

When trying to add a product today, I got this error: "Something went terribly wrong in creating your product (Array). End of the line. Admin-1027a". I have no idea what to do. Help?

The addon was unable to create your product's thread resulting in a critical error.

This is usually a function of a particular setting on the product forum, such as having it as a category or requiring pre-fixes when none are used. Review those types of options first.

If it persists, open up admincp/productforums.php and go to line 330

BEFORE it add:

print_r($errors);

This will reveal the debug information from vB.

[uarujoey]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Sure. You'd be hard hacking the helpfulanswers.php file and looking for the minimum length check to do it... so you'll have to re-apply with any future upgrades.

This is the Product Review add on, not the helpfulanswers add on. So there is no helpfulanswers.php file for me to edit.


I wish to remove "Headline" for the review.

I was able to remove that field so they dont appear as an option for a review, but once a review is submitted, i still get an error that filed needs to be filled out.

"You did not provide a headline for your review.""

I want to remove that completely.

Where in which file do i remove the code? I tried removing:

PHP Code:

 if !$vbulletin->GPC['headline']){ $errors = "You did not provide a 

headline for your review.<br />"; } // must have a headline) 


From the productforums.php, But i get an error when a review is submitted:

"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 uarujoey

This is the Product Review add on, not the helpfulanswers add on. So there is no helpfulanswers.php file for me to edit.

Right idea, wrong name... Nice catch

Originally Posted by uarujoey

"You did not provide a headline for your review.""

Every post need a subject line. In this addon we call it the headline but that's the role it plays technically so you can't just remove it, rather you'd need to replace it with something lower on in the code.

i.e.

$headline = 'Another review';

Of course this is moving further away from the addon's core and thus risks breaking more things, obviously manual changes for upgrades. Be careful, changes to how threads are made can have disastrous results.

[thewebi]

We have a problem when someone is the FB Like Button then click the HTML code in Facebook displayed.
Is this a BUG or we have to change anything else?

Regards

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by thewebi

We have a problem when someone is the FB Like Button then click the HTML code in Facebook displayed.

I'm not understanding your issue. Please try rephrasing it?

[thewebi]

Think pictures explain it better

Attachment 147277

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by thewebi

Think pictures explain it better

Attachment 147277

You can edit what Facebook fetches as content using their OG meta data tags.