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.

[Ted S]

Please PM me with the url of your import file and we will test it out.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by downloadsuk

Hi Ted - I really think you should take a look at my issue. I think there is a bug - I have been trying to problem solve, and found that changing the forum ID changes which product hangs. I can't really debug anymore than this.

The issue with the importer was duplicate product titles which try to create duplicate threads and stop the new thread routine cold in it's tracks.

This copy of admincp/productforums.php should fix that but it may be a little aggressive in sorting out what's a dup. Let me know.

[downloadsuk]

Originally Posted by Ted S

The issue with the importer was duplicate product titles which try to create duplicate threads and stop the new thread routine cold in it's tracks.

This copy of admincp/productforums.php should fix that but it may be a little aggressive in sorting out what's a dup. Let me know.

Worked perfectly, thanks Ted.

[juliannova]

Is there anyway to get this for 3.8? Maybe for a paid mod?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by juliannova

Is there anyway to get this for 3.8? Maybe for a paid mod?

While the code would be similar 3.8 and 4.0 are very, very different in how they approach templating and to some degree plugins / values. You could certainly make it happen but you're not talking about hiring someone for $50, there'd be a lot of work involved if you chose to bring in an outside coder.

While all of our older mods support the 3.x series, moving forward we're exclusively building for 4.0 and up.

[tpearl5]

Hi Ted - any chance of making this work with the Google search API for shopping?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by tpearl5

Hi Ted - any chance of making this work with the Google search API for shopping?

That depends on how you see the two playing together...

APIs like this still require you to have a list of products in the system to look up. Google could be integrated to pull back more details, even local stores that sell the item, but not so much to start threads automatically.

If your goal is to get items to list you'd need to get Google's Product Feed. From working extensively with datafeeds I can you tell we're talking serious data, millions and millions of records. Fun stuff too.

[destacamos]

Happy Holidays! I hope santa brings an update soon

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by destacamos

Happy Holidays! I hope santa brings an update soon

What would be on your "wishlist" for said update?

[1320Nation]

So without going into a long story, I discover today that in order to access and/or use the settings part of this mod you basically have to have Super Admin permissions.

So my question of coarse would be, is there anyway around this? If I use this feature on my site it will be ran by moderators without super admin access to the admincp. There is noway I want to have to sit on top of a mod such this one that has all it's useability done through the admincp. I'm not sure why any mod that is not a high intake money type mod would need to have super admin access to it's controls. If I appear to be slamming this mod I do not mean for it to come off like that. I apologize to anyone that may take it negatively. So is there a possible solution to get around this?