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.

[deverill2010]

I've come accross one thing.

I posted a review under another users account which for some reason went into moderation (it should of just been posted) I don't have reviews set to be moderated by the way.

However when I try to approve the post it says - You did not select any posts to which the action you picked can be applied. even though I am selecting the post.

I also checked and this review/post is not pending to be moderated in the reviews in your back end.

So at the moment I have no way of approving this review/post..

[nibb]

Hi Ted, so that is a confirmed bug? Only happens to some people or you can replicate it?

deverill2010, do you happen by any chance to use CloudFare on your site?

I think this may be my issue. Its strange that a re-install fixed the issue for you.

Is there a way to hide some fields? Like for example I don´t need or want some fields like SKU / Park Number and others because they don´t apply to the products I want to add. It would be nice to be able to turn this off as a feature. Otherwise the plugin its almost perfect besides the bug I mentioned.

[deverill2010]

Nope I don't use cloudflare and never have done.

I'm not having that issue anymore, I have however removed a load of mods from when I last installed it to today. So it may of been one of them conflicting with it. It's working fine for me now.

[nibb]

Originally Posted by deverill2010

Nope I don't use cloudflare and never have done.

I'm not having that issue anymore, I have however removed a load of mods from when I last installed it to today. So it may of been one of them conflicting with it. It's working fine for me now.

Which version of vbulletin do you run?

[PattiOz]

Originally Posted by Kirk Fitzgerald

That file should be 57kb with 1397 line of code in it, are you using a download accelerator, these very often mess files up, if not trying switching browser just for the download, something is going really wrong during download for you.

Sorry Kirk, that code was just the snipped from the part where the error is coming from. The entire file has downloaded fine with 1397 lines of code in it.

[PattiOz]

Ted/Kirk,

Here's my file from adminCP. I am at a loss with this one.

[nibb]

Originally Posted by Ted S

This bug is related to the editor which has far too many permutations and should never have been added

Should be fixed in 1.3.0 due out soon but in the meantime you can remove the check by editing forum/productforums.php to either comment out or remove line 382

// if(strlen($comments) < $vbulletin->options['prodforums_minreview']){ $errors .= "Your review comments must be at least ". $vbulletin->options['prodforums_minreview'] ." characters long.<br />"; } // must have rating picked

That does not work. When I uncomment that line I now get:
Oh great, you had to go and press THAT button. There goes the whole site. Just kidding... We had an issue posting your review, please try again or contact support and use code 164250-B

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by nibb

Hi Ted, so that is a confirmed bug? Only happens to some people or you can replicate it?

It's confirmed but it's not global. Most sites don't have the issue, some do, 1.3 fixes it either way.

Is there a way to hide some fields? Like for example I don?t need or want some fields like SKU / Park Number and others because they don?t apply to the products I want to add. It would be nice to be able to turn this off as a feature. Otherwise the plugin its almost perfect besides the bug I mentioned.

vBulletin uses a templating function. Remove what you don't like, add what you want. Every dynamic element is more load for your server and more coding which means less actual features... We follow the 90/10 rule under the assumption that no one should use a mod out of the box. :up:

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by nibb

That does not work. When I uncomment that line I now get:
Oh great, you had to go and press THAT button. There goes the whole site. Just kidding... We had an issue posting your review, please try again or contact support and use code 164250-B

Looks like the script is really not seeing any message, thus it can't post the review thread. You'll need to wait until 1.3 comes out [soon] to get past this.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by PattiOz

Ted/Kirk,

Here's my file from adminCP. I am at a loss with this one.

That makes two of us although as I said in my last post, termination errors are global. If there was a problem in the script everyone would get the message which leads me to believe there's an issue with your upload / config / server settings.