RP review moderation

[Tom1234]

Moderating reviews (adm-modrev.php) should display the pros and cons in the moderation panel along with the text of the review. I consider pros and cons text to need moderation just as much as the message text.

Also, the product category, manu and title should be displayed here too so I know what product is being reviewed. I can't seem to remember which of the hundreds of products it is based only on the product ID number.

adm-approve.php should display $manu along with the $title to fully identify the product. Many times $title of the product alone does not identify it.

[Chuck S]

There are no bugs in this functionality

It is the intended way things are.

The posters name date product review and rating are included.

There is a clickable link to take you to the product which opens in another window.

Good suggestion features though and you can post them in the suggestion forum for consideration in future builds

[Tom1234]

I still consider them bugs because they're key features of the software yet incomplete implementations.

It seems that ReviewPost is still alpha quality in design since so many photopost conveniences (i.e. concepts based on an image rather than a product) have not been enhanced to make sense for products. Yet it is being sold as if it is ready for release.

For example, "Show Most Recent Additions on Index page?" only applies to products that have an associated image. If no picture of the product, it's not considered a recent addition?

And "Require users to be registered to view images?".... Saying "No", you would think this applies to the ability of unregistered users to view products or product reviews, but all it blocks is the image of the product itself.

If someone does not enter a product title or image, yet submits a manufacturer and product description, it is impossible to view the product in adm-approve.php. We really need to make "title" a required field for a product upload.

Are these bugs or by design? I understand why they were designed into PhotoPost but not ReviewPost.

Anyway, if these are just suggestions rather than something that needs to be fixed for someone paying for the product now, could an Admin please move this thread to the Suggestions forum for me? Thanks.

[Chuck S]

Well lets take your moderation concerns with Reviewpost.

How does the screen differ from Photopost? They look nearly identical to me. Photopost has the same aspects only reviews is called comments. As I said the products review/comments approval is the same. Therefore my original comment this is more a suggestion for improvement and a good one.

I do not consider Reviewpost alpha in nature. Remember Reviewpost has only been out for about a year.

Photopost has been out way longer than that and was a perl product before it was converted to PHP.

There will always be feature differences as the two products are different and on different timelines.

Now as far as the other problems lets start a thread about each one. Posting several problems like this in one thread will make it very difficult to help as I might miss something.

I need to test out see what your talking about.

[Chuck S]

Okay I looked your other issues you brought up concerning functionality of the product.



1.Now on to recent products

I guess this is a user's taste by design. However these little feature boxes are thumbnail includers by design which means they display images. I guess if you really wanted to show just the title and manufacturer you could.

In pp-inc.php

Find this:

case "latest":
if ( !isset($cat) ) {
$group_title = "{$Globals['pp_lang']['recent']} - {$Globals['pp_lang']['allcats']}";
$query = "SELECT id,user,userid,cat,title,manu,bigimage,views FROM {$Globals['rp_db_prefix']}products WHERE bigimage !='' AND approved='1' $exclude_cat ORDER BY date DESC";
break;
}


Change it to this:


case "latest":
if ( !isset($cat) ) {
$group_title = "{$Globals['pp_lang']['recent']} - {$Globals['pp_lang']['allcats']}";
$query = "SELECT id,user,userid,cat,title,manu,bigimage,views FROM {$Globals['rp_db_prefix']}products WHERE approved='1' $exclude_cat ORDER BY date DESC";
break;
}

That will allow all products to be shown regardless of image or not.




2.Now on to require user's to be register to view images? The name should be changed to review.

When I have this marked to yes I get the diewell screen and this message


You must be a registered user to view product reviews!

To register click on the REGISTER button in the menu above.


So if your seeing something different we need to work with you on why your not getting the same results as me



3.Now on to the admin approval screen.

I do tend to agree with you on this one as being a design flaw.


A quick fix for that would be in uploadproduct.php after these lines


if ( $insertid < 1 ) {
diewell( "$testname: {$Globals['pp_lang']['errorprocess']}" );
exit;
}



add this


if ( empty($title)) {
diewell("You must enter a title to upload a product");
}


That should take care of that.


Hope that helps Tom.

[Tom1234]

Thanks for the help omegatron. I really appreciate it.

For #1, I can live with it either way, but maybe all it needs is a change to the title of the table of "Recent Products - All Categories" to "Recent Products that contain Photo - All Categories". Otherwise, a list format for recent additions would be better than a thumbnail format with some products missing thumbnails.

My bad on #2. It works as you say, but I was thrown by the wording in the admin options. All it needs is "Require users to be registered to view images?" changed to "Require users to be registered to view products and reviews". Can we get this into the next release? I really hate keeping track of a lot of mods to make after each release especially when it applies to everyone, not just my own application.

#3. Thanks. Please get this into next release.

Back to my original complaint, moderating reviews (adm-modrev.php) should display the pros and cons in the moderation panel along with the text (comments) of the review. This one bugs me the most and seems to be an integral part of properly moderating. Can we get this fixed for next release?

I did not mean to imply the quality of the RP code was "alpha", but that the design phase seems incomplete due to it branching off from the photopost code and it's mostly image-centric issues that are not always applicable to products and reviews. Both are fine, useful products and improving all the time.

Thanks again.

[Chuck S]

OKay well lets see my friend

#1. Yeah do with it what ya will all ya need to do is alter the query which is what I posted.

#2. You have the ability to change this. In future versions I know Michael had talked about getting the admin language in language files and templates

If you are comfortable with phpMyAdmin you can go to your reviewpost settings table and change the title for #93 and that will change the wording.

Now with the pro's and con's along with the actual review I could tell ya how to add it but feel free to make a feature suggestion as Michael does read all of them.

[Tom1234]

Is there an Admin here that could move this thread to the RP Suggestions forum?

[Tom1234]

Displaying pros and cons along with the review text in the "Moderate Reviews" page never was addressed, so I just hacked the code to add it and it seems to be working fine.

In RP 2.8.1, edit adm-modrev.php

Replace the following code starting at line 84 in RP 2.8.1:

Content visible to verified customers only.

with the following code:

Content visible to verified customers only.

Questions for Michael:

Is it correct and necessary to stripslash the pros and cons as I have done?

Could you add this code to next version?

[Tom1234]

Michael,

I see that the display of pros and cons when moderating reviews was never added to your adm-modrev.php code. Could you please consider it? pros and cons are very important to see in order to decide whether to approve the review.

[Michael P]

I'll add them to the next update.