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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QUICK TIPS:
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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]

Perfect.

I've added a check in that insures reviews are at least as long as the min post count. Give this one a whirl please.

[sgbmad]

This is the result.

http://i.imgur.com/aiqAg.png

Why require more characters if I write more than 1 and 5 characters?

Thanks Ted!

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by sgbmad

This is the result.

http://i.imgur.com/aiqAg.png

Why require more characters if I write more than 1 and 5 characters?

Thanks Ted!

Interesting.

Something is getting mixed up in the comments.

One more time please!

[sgbmad]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Interesting.

Something is getting mixed up in the comments.

One more time please!

Result:

http://i.imgur.com/ou2IY.png

comments are:

errors:Your review comments must be at least 1 characters long.

[Killhunter]

Originally Posted by Ted S

I'm not sure why you'd use the word mistake. Mods write code to make their mod work... neither code is intended to impact the other... But given the open nature of addons it's not always possible to avoid collisions.

Our mods are always designed to let others integrate but when it comes to stepping on the same code bits, it's not always something we can avoid... there's just no way to try a mod against every other possible install.

As always, we have to measure the total requests vs one instance and see what makes sense to do.

But its not my style... Its in every style, also the original.

[Killhunter]

But you are right.. its just the div-tags.. but how the hell we could fix that...

[Webby24]

After Adding a Product I got this error:
Something went terribly wrong in creating your product. End of the line. Admin-1027a

No Explain. Nothing. I think that is not good. So I cant do anything. I hop you can help me.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Killhunter

But its not my style... Its in every style, also the original.

Again, we installed the mod on a stock layout and had no issue loading the page. Nothing changed, not even a single pixel of the page.

That doesn't mean you don't have a conflict with your site, but it does mean you have to find out what specific set of code, mods, and styles are causing the issue if you want help with fixing it.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Webby24

After Adding a Product I got this error:
Something went terribly wrong in creating your product. End of the line. Admin-1027a

No Explain. Nothing. I think that is not good. So I cant do anything. I hop you can help me.

Actually that tells us a ton... We don't show raw errors which can contain information for people to exploit your site but instead run a debugging system with each error coded differently.

In short that code tells us that we weren't able to add the new thread. This could be a permission issue, a problem with the forum picked, or an issue with the settings in it.

Run this version, it will still produce an error but tell us the reason which we can sort out.

[Killhunter]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Again, we installed the mod on a stock layout and had no issue loading the page. Nothing changed, not even a single pixel of the page.

That doesn't mean you don't have a conflict with your site, but it does mean you have to find out what specific set of code, mods, and styles are causing the issue if you want help with fixing it.

Did you installed the hack we?ve spoken about?

Why arent the products are sort by name at the productforum.php? Should be selectable