1. I want to use existing username, permissions and usergroups from vBulletin 3.x. Is this possible?
Yes your login is integrated and uses the vb3 user table. Your
vb usergroups are imported into reviewpost admin and you set reviewpost permissions for each usergroup
2. When reading "reviews" does the vBulletin member info such as USERTAGS, "join date" "post count", etc. appear?
The user title posts register date and avatar if exists are shown on reviews
3. Is there an easy way to "view all reviews written by this member" from a person's profile in vBulletin?
We do not modify any vbulletin files at all since we are our own application.
4. What is the typical method of a webmaster to prevent reviewpost from being used to "chat" about products (ie. eliminate followup and debate in reviews). I want all "discussion" on vBulletin and reviewpost to simply be a product review database.
Product reviews are displayed in reviewpost under the actual product. If you want to enforce what is posted there you can define whether members can post reviews in the first place and if so you can even set to moderate them so they do not appear if not approved by you.
5. Can you provide a few small websites where review post is in use? one of them on your homepage is not operating and the ford mustang site is dreadfully slow
http://www.reeftalk.com/reviews http://www.viperalley.com/viperrev
6. what database backup/restore tools are available outside of myphpadmin.
There is a backup utility in the admin section but that only works when mysql is installed on the same server as we need access to mysqldump to dump the database
7. can i limit registration to post reviews exclusively thru
vB.
Registration of users is handled through Vbulletin when integrating with
Vb