Is there a way to list all reviews by a visitor?

carsafety · November 12th, 2012, 02:06 PM

When members "Add a review" (aka a comment in the Admin area), is there a way to list all the reviews a particular member has submitted? I don't see a listing in profiles or even a counter to show how many reviews/comments they have submitted.

I do see that it keeps track of how many "products" they have uploaded, but it is very useful if you have a trusted reviewer to see what other products they have added reviews.

Maybe I'm just missing where this list is shown or otherwise please consider it for a future version suggestion. It would also be nice to see a list of "Top Reviewers" based on how many reviews/comments they have submitted, in addition to "Top Posters" which appears to only keep track of the initial product uploads (which are all done by admins/moderators on my forum).

Chuck S · November 12th, 2012, 02:27 PM

Members do not add comments in admin so I assume you mean Moderate Reviews in Admin. That only lists unapproved reviews and there is no sort by user function.

The memberlist script showmembers.php lists all products a user and a review count. I would need to look around but I believe maybe in the product display or profile I think there is a show all user reviews link

revshow.php?userid=SOMEUSERID

I know that will show all reviews by a user.

carsafety · November 12th, 2012, 02:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Chuck S

revshow.php?userid=SOMEUSERID

I know that will show all reviews by a user.

I don't see it offhand anywhere else, but the script above will be handy for me to track personally, which is what I need at the moment. Thanks! If you happen to see it linked or listed elsewhere, please let me know for reference.

If not, please consider adding this more prominently in a user profile or column widget or something for future updates- I think it would be very handy!

Chuck S · November 12th, 2012, 03:00 PM

Not a problem glad to help out

Chuck S · November 14th, 2012, 08:16 AM

The show all user reviews link is on the showmembers script. I knew it was somewhere front and center.

Chuck S · November 15th, 2012, 08:14 PM

Here is an example if you want to show the same see all user reviews link that is on show members script on the showproduct page you can edit the showproduct template and under the line noted add the line in bold here

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carsafety · December 11th, 2012, 09:58 AM

I'm back to playing with this and have some more suggestions for future updates.

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The show all user reviews link is on the showmembers script. I knew it was somewhere front and center.

The problem with the showmembers (Member Products link on the navbar) page is that it lists only the persons who have uploaded product pages. It does not appear to list anyone who has submitted reviews (comments), unless they have also uploaded at least one product.

It would be nice if there was a separate page (or modification to this page) to also show those who have submitted only reviews/comments, even if they have not uploaded a product themselves.

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Here is an example if you want to show the same see all user reviews link that is on show members script on the showproduct page you can edit the showproduct template and under the line noted add the line in bold here

This also only shows the reviews of the person who uploaded that product. What I was getting at originally is that under each product on the show product page are the authors who submitted reviews for that product. It would be nice to have this function to see user reviews somewhere in this profile, perhaps under their avatar along with the total number of reviews/comments they have submitted. This way, when you see someone who writes great reviews, you can check out their other reviews more easily, even if they haven't uploaded a product page.

Similarly, in the "Top Posters" sidebar widget, it only credits those who have uploaded a product. It would be nice to have a "Top Reviewers" widget too, since you want to credit all those members who are adding content by reviewing the uploaded product as well.

So these may be suggestions for a future update. In the mean time, is there a clever way to show a list of the top reviewers, sorted by the number of reviews/comments they have submitted, again even if they have not uploaded any products themselves?

Chuck S · December 11th, 2012, 10:46 AM

That is because that is what the memberlist is suppose to show. People confuse the functionality of that script with a script that vb uses. showmembers script is just that is is the script that shows content on the site sorted by user not category like showgallery script.

revshow.php shows reviews

The member profile page also shows reviews. We could place a link like I did on showproduct page in the review section of the member profile. That part shows like the most recent 10 reviews.

carsafety · December 11th, 2012, 12:03 PM

Yes, revshow.php works for what I need, but not as nicely arranged by member as the showmembers. So please consider this as a suggestion for the next version to have showmembers.php or some other new script include all those who have submitted reviews sorted in the same way. I think it would be handy.

I'm having trouble finding the reviews link or listing on the member profile page. If I am looking at product page and scroll down to see a member review, then click the profile button at the bottom, it brings me to their vB profile. I'm not seeing any links to reviews there. Is there a separate RP profile page or something? I recall that they used to be different in version 5 maybe? I hadn't really noticed until now lol.

Chuck S · December 11th, 2012, 12:09 PM

Yes I was referring to the review profile page which shows for everyone but vb4 people

vb4 customers in general voiced there opinions that they would rather see a reviewpost info in vb profile even if it does not have all the functionality of the reviewpost profile page.

Basically what shows in the vb4 profile is the statistics and abilility to moderate the subscriptions of categories and products.

I will think about ways to better present all reviews by user. One more idea as well is on revshow on the individual reviews under the username of who posted that review a link that says show all user reviews.

carsafety · December 11th, 2012, 12:11 PM

Ah that explains it then.

Yes, it would be a nice addition to the vB for profile, or simply as an addition to the member information that appears under the avatar when you are looking at their review in the showproduct page.

Chuck S · December 11th, 2012, 12:12 PM

Again a more simpler thing would be to place a show all reviews by user link in the reviews stats in the vb4 profile.

carsafety · December 29th, 2012, 12:39 PM

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Again a more simpler thing would be to place a show all reviews by user link in the reviews stats in the vb4 profile.

Finally getting around to this-

Can you please direct me to where the reviews stats area is in the vb4 profile? Perhaps the vB4 template name or where a hook is located or where it appears in a tab on the profile page? I'm not seeing any information like this in the vb4 profile area.

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I will think about ways to better present all reviews by user. One more idea as well is on revshow on the individual reviews under the username of who posted that review a link that says show all user reviews.

This would work for me too, can you please specify which reviewpost template where I would fine the spot under left column listing of the author, username, profile pic thumnail, IP, registered date, location and posts where I could insert the revshow link?

Chuck S · December 29th, 2012, 04:46 PM

memberinfo_block_ppProfile is the vb template

You can place whatever link you wish where ever in that profile. You have the format of the all user reviews link above in that vb template the user's userid of the users profile you are viewing is this variable in vb template there

{vb:raw userinfo.userid}

carsafety · December 29th, 2012, 05:06 PM

Thanks! That will help with updating the template, as I could not find it in the basic member templates lol.

I have now found out why I could not ever find the reviews statistics you mentioned when viewing the vB4 profile. It's a tab called "Reviews" to the right of the About Me, Friends, etc. The problem is that this tab seems to only appear if the member has uploaded a product page. If they have submitted reviews but not uploaded a product page, then it will not appear.

Is it possible to modify this reviews tab to appear if a member has uploaded a product OR has submitted a review?

Next question- if I also want to include the revshow link on the individual reviews under the username of who posted that review in the far left column of the review, like you suggested, what reviewpost template would I edit to do this?

Chuck S · December 29th, 2012, 07:34 PM

well the plugins work as they are released and if I have time I will look into your suggestions if I get a chance sometime to see if they can be written some other way. I do not offhand see anything that restricts the display of that tab.

As far as placing some link on the actual review maybe somewhere near the following variable at the bottom of showproduct template

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carsafety · December 30th, 2012, 02:45 PM

This spot works nicely, too, thanks! But the revshow link isn't quite working right and is giving this error for some reason, any ideas? I copied the link in the previous post exactly, but maybe there is a slight syntax issue?

Warning: mysql_fetch_row() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in [path]/reviewpost/revshow.php on line 74

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Originally Posted by Chuck S

well the plugins work as they are released and if I have time I will look into your suggestions if I get a chance sometime to see if they can be written some other way. I do not offhand see anything that restricts the display of that tab.

As far as placing some link on the actual review maybe somewhere near the following variable at the bottom of showproduct template

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Chuck S · December 30th, 2012, 03:26 PM

well no idea the coding works in our application correctly so it would have to do without whatever your doing where your doing it I would think or some modification you have made.

Reviews - Reeftalk Reviews

Reviews - Reeftalk Reviews

So I guess do you actually have any reviews to show.

carsafety · December 30th, 2012, 05:31 PM

Ah yes that may be it. I just noticed that the problem is that when you insert that code into the spot you mentioned, it picks up the userid of the user that uploaded the product page, not the user that submitted the review. Of course, since I was looking for the user who submitted the review to facilitate finding their other reviews, I expected a minimum of 1 review, but for some reason it didn't take the userid from the review for some reason.

It works as expceted if I substitute in a userid of someone who has submitted reviews.

Is there a variable to make it grab the reviewer's userid instead? I assume it would be whatever is used to grab the reviewer's profile pic and quick stats in the left column, but I can't seem to find that in showproduct template.

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Originally Posted by Chuck S

well no idea the coding works in our application correctly so it would have to do without whatever your doing where your doing it I would think or some modification you have made.

Reviews - Reeftalk Reviews

Reviews - Reeftalk Reviews

So I guess do you actually have any reviews to show.

Chuck S · December 30th, 2012, 06:30 PM

Well whatever you are doing make sure to use the proper use rid variable for the spot you are putting it. I am not in front of my office desk so u will probally need to use whatever variable for use rid is active in the function you are placing that link. Any suggestion I gave above would use variables from some other place.