Description: This hack adds a Testimonial system to your site, allowing your users to leave feedback about your products or services.
*** I Strongly Recommend That You Backup Before Installing/Upgrading This Hack! I am not responsible for any damage this hack causes to your forum, so backup! ***
Planned features for a later release:
Anything that is suggested.
Features Added To Version 1.0.1
Added Average Ratings
Added Categories Support
Got Rid of Some Hard Coded Text, Replaced with Phrases
Features Added To Version 1.0.0
Make the templates XHTML Transitional
Fixed WOL Bug
Features Added To Version 1.0.0 Beta 2
Added Report System
Made the templates look better
Added WOL Support (Partially, Will fix the rest of it in the next version)
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I am still learning php, and will try and help you if you have any problems with this hack.
I have added screen shots of this hack in action below.
How can I remove "Last Edited by" but only user id 6 (admin) It looks a bit odd when a testimonial is edited by admin...looks like big brother is deciding what is written!
I have found the "last edited by" comments appears after I validate a testimonial!
I really like this, and can see it as a nice way for users to make recommendations for products they enjoy all over the web.
Therefore I'd like to see it parse URLs and recognize carriage returns, just like a regular post would... right now it all shows up as contiguous text.
I'd like to allow for browsing the testimonials by category.
Yes, they are viewing it but getting a no permission error because you didn't give them permission. It's not a bug, they just somehow found the url. I have tested this on many sites and the only time it shows as viewing testimonials is when they are at vbtestimonials.php.
This wasn't the case for me.
I installed this on my very small board, and told no one about it. No even the moderators or other admin. I was just testing it out, adding in testimonials as an experiment, getting a feel for it. Within 20 minutes I was getting PM's from a couple of users asking about it, and the test entries I'd made!
Why? Because even though no one is looking at it, for some reason it shows up in the "Who's Online" activity column for some people. I asked a few of them and despite what the WOL page said, they were not on the testimonials page and didn't know WTF I was talking about.
But once other people saw the link in the WOL page, they clicked the link. Not good.
So I uninstalled it. I deleted the files, and then used Quick Admin Tools to rebuild the bit files.
Cool hack, but I'll wait for bugfixes and more flexibility before trying again.