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.

[morrow]

Originally Posted by Ted S

You've got two different issues so let's break them apart...
The option is at the end of your forum's settings and is called Enable Product Review Forum Features?

Screenshot attached

The error comes when the script can't get information on the forum you are posting too. So again I have to ask; does the forum you have selected in the options accept new posts and if so, have you rebuilt your forum cache? [Maintenance -> Update Counters]

See my attachment. Yes, I've rebuilt my forum cache too.

Thanks for the help

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by morrow

See my attachment. Yes, I've rebuilt my forum cache too.

Thanks for the help

This is an issue no one else has had after fixing their settings so I'll have to dive in further. Please post a screenshot of your core settings for us to debug with.

And fyi, without any products created, your threads will appear exactly like a normal thread. Only products appear differently.

[morrow]

Originally Posted by Ted S

This is an issue no one else has had after fixing their settings so I'll have to dive in further. Please post a screenshot of your core settings for us to debug with.

See attachment

And fyi, without any products created, your threads will appear exactly like a normal thread. Only products appear differently.

Understood but I can't enter any products!

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by morrow

See attachment

You have not specified a forum for new products to be posted too [for users]. Are you having issues adding them as an admin or a front-end user?

[morrow]

I've now changed that to 178 which is the forum (only forum at the moment) I intend to use this in.

Even after changing that, I get the following (See attachment):

[Killhunter]

Originally Posted by Ted S

You can find it in productforums.php - learning to hack code is a good skill for improving your forum but if you're not familiar with how to make changes you should head over to the programming area of this community for help.

Thank you very much, I got it.


Another problem: http://file1.npage.de/002827/87/bilder/proproblem.png

This problem does only appear at this style. But this style works great with everything, just your mod doesnt seem to appear correctly. Do you have an idea, what the problem could be and where i could search for it and fix it?

[Killhunter]

another thing is that the search bar is pretty annoying on small forums: http://file1.npage.de/002827/87/bilder/proprob2.png

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Killhunter

another thing is that the search bar is pretty annoying on small forums: http://file1.npage.de/002827/87/bilder/proprob2.png

My philosophy on mods is simple... a mod is a starting place to give you a feature that will work anywhere but making it work best, and match, your site, will always require some tweaking. You can change the template prodforums_matches to look however you like.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by morrow

I've now changed that to 178 which is the forum (only forum at the moment) I intend to use this in.

Even after changing that, I get the following (See attachment):

The mod is pulling up the default vBulletin create post function which is failing. At a glance I don't see a debug tool to figure out why but we'll find a way to figure out what's going wrong and be back in touch.

[Killhunter]

Would love to see pictures of the most reviewed and best reviewed products at the product....php