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 stevectaylor

I'd guess your general settings are the fault. You need to allow outbound url's

Actually the url just needs an http:// - without one all links are assumed to be on the same [local] domain.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by stevectaylor

This is what we get at the end

So the XML parser is only finding 3 product records in that file. If there's more post a copy of the file up or pm me to send it directly.

[Preech]

Originally Posted by Ted S

There's a couple minor things for the next release this week but what are you looking for?

Well some of the features that I'm looking for, would probably require you to have a lite and pro version of this mod.
Along with the review, maybe like a way to sample a mixtape.

[stevectaylor]

Originally Posted by Ted S

So the XML parser is only finding 3 product records in that file. If there's more post a copy of the file up or pm me to send it directly.

No Thats the bottom 3 of 12. tbh at the moment I suspect its something connected with either a general VB setting or sql setting at the moment.

[Goatpod]

Ted, wonder if you could help with this.

I've written a plugin to incorporate some Ebay ads with the product reviews. What I'm trying to do is grab the Manufacturer name used in the product review as a keyword on which to search ebay and return ads under the product review.

The plug in works fine with the keyword hard coded into the plugin but what I'd like to do is grab the Manufacturer variable created by your mod. for the plugin to use it as a keyword in the Ebay api search.

ob_start();
require_once("./phpbay/ebay.php");
phpBayAPI("keyword", "5", "", "", "", false);
$php_include = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
vB_Template::preRegister('prodforums_product_details',array('php_include' => $php_include));

The keyword bit in the code is were the manufacturer variable would appear.

Any pointers as to the proper syntax for the variable would be greatly appreciated but I fully understand if this is beyond the remit of your support for the mod. I did start a thread in the VB4 prog. section but that seems to have drawn a blank so I thought I'd ask your good self.

Cheers
Dave

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Preech

Well some of the features that I'm looking for, would probably require you to have a lite and pro version of this mod.
Along with the review, maybe like a way to sample a mixtape.

We don't do pro versions of our mods. What exists is shared to everyone and if you need something truly custom then we'd suggest adding it on top with the help of another developer.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by stevectaylor

No Thats the bottom 3 of 12. tbh at the moment I suspect its something connected with either a general VB setting or sql setting at the moment.

vB has no setting impact on this part of the mod unless the file is somehow huge?

Similarly SQL would issue an error if it had one. The code you're seeing is every record looped through regardless of what happens to it.

[Ted S]

The variable you're looking for is mfrg which, in the context of viewing a post is accessible as $product['mfrg']

You can add that to your array of the code is going into this mod directly. If you're placing it elsewhere like in another plugin be sure it's after this mod runs so it's available too you.

[Preech]

Originally Posted by Ted S

vB has no setting impact on this part of the mod unless the file is somehow huge?

Similarly SQL would issue an error if it had one. The code you're seeing is every record looped through regardless of what happens to it.

I appreciate all of the response Ted. I've found a open source script that will cover everything that I was looking for in this script. If I need help incorporating this with in vBulletin, I will keep you in mind.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Preech

I appreciate all of the response Ted. I've found a open source script that will cover everything that I was looking for in this script. If I need help incorporating this with in vBulletin, I will keep you in mind.

Awesome!

I don't provide any coding or direct services so please keep someone else in mind