Forum Home Enhancements - [Chris] Rate My Site & Testimonials in Forum Sidebar

Rate My Site & Testimonials in Forum Sidebar
by Christos Teriakis

Demo: http://www.christeris.net/dev42/forum.php


Please note that from
11 Aug 2013
you can get support only in my site
http://www.teriakis.com

1.- What's this

It's a multi functional Rate My Site, User Feedback which works totally just as Forum Sidebar block.

2.- Features

1. The block has 3 tabs: Overview, Rate Us, Comments
2. You are allowed to assign many fields for rating and not just a simple "Rate Us". eg you can set fields for rating like: Content, Design, Hand etc etc. The overall rating is auto calculating.
3. Users can post ratings and leave a simple feedback
4. The comments tab shows the latests 3 comments but there is a link "All comments" which opens a normal vB page

3.- Things ToDo

1. Allow admins to post replies to comments or delete comments
2. Add Like/Dislike to all comments so others users will be able to post their opinion about a comment.

4.- Installation

I'm sorry but you need to do some manual work. I was unable to find a way to make these changes automatic. So the steps that you need to follow to install this addon, are:

1. Upload all files and folders from the upload folder to your vB installation directory.
2. Goto you admincp
3. Copy the content of additional.css and paste it to your additional.css template. You can find it at Styles & Templates-> Style Manager-> Edit Templates-> CSS Templates
4. Copy the content of headinclude.php and on the same way add it to the end of your headinclude template.
5. Copy the content of footer.php and on the same way add it to the end of your footer template.
6. Create a Forum Sidebar at Forums & Moderators-> Forum Blocks Manager
   1. Add Block
   2. Select Block Type: Custom HTML/PHP
   3. Click Continue
   4. Title: Anything you like to appear. eg Rate our site
   5. Cache time (in minutes): Set it to a low value. Don't know if setting 0 deactivates cache (should be perfect). Cache causes a problem. Keeps the rate form visible for the cache time period. This actually is not a problem as, in case that the user will tries to rate again, he will gets a permission error. But is not nice to be visible after user rating.
   6. Content type: PHP
   7. Content: Copy and paste the code from: Widget_Block_PHP_Code.txt
7. Goto Plugins & Products and import product-ratemysite.xml
8. Set (if needing) the 3 settings at RateMySite Settings
9. Add Rating questions. I believe that you must have at least 2 questions.
   1. Content
   2. Design
10. It's up to you to set a starting votes/ratings even if I don't suggest it. Just be careful. Each vote has maximum 10 as rating. So avoid mistakes (I did it) like 5 votes, 70 points which gives 14 as rating
11. In case that you want to use BirdOPrey's Sidebar Anywhere in the testimonials page the data that you need are:
    1. THIS_SCRIPT : ratemysite
    2. Template: ratemysite_comments

5.- Copyright

Since the time that DBTech released their Copyright Manager, I've removed my own copyrights. I found their action insulting me to maximum. Their wording "Site is powered by vBulletin AddOns and Modules by Dragonbyte Tech" (and not "Some parts of this site"), means that everything there is their own work, ignoring on the worst way the fact that there are 100's of other coders and designers who are supporting this community for years. So, I'm letting the glory to them. No copyrights from my side.

Enjoy it
Christos Teriakis
aka ChrisTERiS

[Christos Teriakis]

A new version (1.1.0) has released. This update is mostly for admins operating non English sites. I've forgot to replace the hand writter words with vb phrases. But is good to update.

If you want to change the rating levels (Outstanding .... Terrible) you need to edit the phrases:
ratemysite_rating_1 ....to... ratemysite_rating_10

To upgrade import product-ratemysite.xml and the replace the block code with the new one from the file: Widget_Block_PHP_Code.txt

[goxy63]

Looks nice

Will install today and try it out, rated, nominated, "installed"

Thank you

[daveaite]

Cool mod

[mitch84]

Hi, My English is not very good, but can u say to myself in the line 10 an example of configuration of points? I do not understand. And for bird's mod I do not understand or I have to add this:
THIS_SCRIPT : ratemysite
Template: ratemysite_comments
thank you

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by mitch84

Hi, My English is not very good, but can u say to myself in the line 10 an example of configuration of points? I do not understand. And for bird's mod I do not understand or I have to add this:
THIS_SCRIPT : ratemysite
Template: ratemysite_comments
thank you

1.- When you are setting a rating field (eg Design) the normal is to let votes and points to 0. But if you want to tease visitors, you can add some values there. eg if you add 3 as votes, the maximum that you set as points is 30 (3 votes of 10).

2.- Are you using that mod? If yes, then somewhere it has some settings to define custom pages where you want to show the sidebar. This setting needs 2 values (at least this is what I understood reading their file).

[mitch84]

understood! thx

now two problems:
I'm admin, when i want add a comment in public feedback, this appear when I submit

Mitch84, you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:

Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.

but after my avatar appear in testimonial but not my comment:

second problem or perhaps it's normal, how delete this:

OVERVIEW
RATE US
COMMENTS

when I click apprently don't work for me

and third, a admin can delete a vote or a comment, if yes, how?
thank you Chris!

[migratoria]

Hi Chris

But... For remove comments?

[ahobilam]

Dear Chris,
I found always you are very generous, genuine and moderate.
Expecting and love to install more from you!
Best Wishes
NVS

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by mitch84

now two problems:
I'm admin, when i want add a comment in public feedback, this appear when I submit
but after my avatar appear in testimonial but not my comment:

You'll get this error only when you try to post rating/comment for 2nd time. It's a chache problem that why I said before to set 0 or 1 for caching. Try editing the forum block. The default is 60.

Originally Posted by mitch84

second problem or perhaps it's normal, how delete this:
when I click apprently don't work for me

Sorry, these 3 tabs are needing for the script to work. You can't remove them, but your can change it to Francais. Is this what you want?

Originally Posted by mitch84

and third, a admin can delete a vote or a comment, if yes, how?
thank you Chris!

I'm working on it. If not today, tomorrow I'll release an update where the admin can reply to comments or delete comments.