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]

Originally Posted by bigtree

right on. testing it now.

How's it look? I really dig the editor myself... should have done that earlier

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Killhunter

Nice update, but addthis is the biggest shit Should be selectable please...

It is selectable. Just turn off sharing links and it goes away...

Or pop open the template prodforums_product_details [reviewing a review] and phrase prodforums_reviewposted [writing a review] and put in whatever you prefer.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Ted S

The trigger for the link [which shows in the upper right corner above the review results] is group permissions and the option being enabled. Did you turn it on for the admin group?

Whoops, just saw your post.

Can you double check that the permission "stuck" and that the member isn't a part of a group with a "no"?

Also the link isn't the most visible given where it is. That can be changed of course...

[zeus_r6]

Originally Posted by Ted S

The issue is likely happening everywhere but IE is adding extra padding or margins somewhere which is causing the post to become too big and thus get wrapped.

Firebug will help track down your particular collision as again, it's likely going to be specific to something another mod or style change has added... unfortunately that's the nature of mods, we all write our own code and sometimes it doesn't play nice with others.

I'll dig into it with firebug and see what happens...

Originally Posted by Ted S

Whoops, just saw your post.

Can you double check that the permission "stuck" and that the member isn't a part of a group with a "no"?

Also the link isn't the most visible given where it is. That can be changed of course...

Just triple checked...where exactly would the link reside?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by zeus_r6

Just triple checked...where exactly would the link reside?

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...2&d=1327136316

Very upper right of the screen is what you should see on the review overview page [productforums.php]

[zeus_r6]

oooohhhhh

on the productforums.php page. Didn't even know it existed since there was no obvious links to it

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by zeus_r6

oooohhhhh

on the productforums.php page. Didn't even know it existed since there was no obvious links to it

I dont do auto links in my mods.. There's too much variability between forums to assume a link on one will even show in a useful way on any given site.

[Killhunter]

Originally Posted by Ted S

The mod will read data from slightly older versions but it's just not feasible to write code that runs back to every older flavor. Why haven't you upgraded?

my license has expired.. Is there no way to do that? Could you add the option to choose between WYSIWYG and the standard-editor we got before?

[The Ottoman]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Turned out to be an easy add. :up:

The style is in the css file [upload -> clientscript -> vbulletin_css -> productforums.php]. Change .pf_search .pf_st and .pf_search .pf_sh as you see fit.



Good catch. Here you go.

The update worked great! Thanks.

Thanks for the css hints as well.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Killhunter

my license has expired.. Is there no way to do that? Could you add the option to choose between WYSIWYG and the standard-editor we got before?

vB4 licenses don't expire last I checked. And if your license has expired, how are you downloading mods?