who submitted the review

indiamike · August 30th, 2005, 04:00 PM

Okay new reviewpost customer and first suggestion.

I want to allow my users to submit items to be reviewed and the first thing I notice is that there is no spot that says who added the item to be reviewed. Unless a comment is added to the item there is no way to see who added the item.

Personally I think it's confusing if you are going to allow users to add products and not be able to know who added them.

Can anyone whip up a quick hack for this or include it in the next release?

indiamike · September 15th, 2005, 04:05 PM

Just a bump as I know hacks are not supported but if I ask nicely...please....can someone just guide me in the right direction on how to implement this.

Ideally it would be great in the showproduct template somewhere around these lines

Code:

Content visible to verified customers only.

So it shows the submitters name along with the item. I am just not sure how to call it up since I am a big dummy.

I accept pms

just in case we don't wish to show hacks on the main site.

Cheers
Mike
ps...it's kinda important for me to be able to use reviewpost.

indiamike · September 24th, 2005, 03:15 PM

Well adding to my own reply I hope I got this correct, necessity is the mother of invention I guess.

In the english.php file I added

Code:

Content visible to verified customers only.

Then in showproduct.php around line 208-209 it says

Code:

Content visible to verified customers only.

I add under it $addedby = $user; declaring the variable so it looks like

Code:

Content visible to verified customers only.

In the vb3 enhanced showproduct.tmpl around line 72 it says

Code:

Content visible to verified customers only.

I replaced it with

Code:

Content visible to verified customers only.

Seems to work okay and shows under the title of the product the user who submitted the review- see example here and look for the Submitted by text under the title.

As I know hacks are no longer supported I thought this may help some who are interested.

Chuck, if you see any major errors in this please let me know.

Mike

indiamike · April 23rd, 2006, 05:24 PM

urgh...doesn't seem to work on 3.3 anymore. Anybody else have any hacks or suggestions for a brian dead person on how to get the person who submitted the reviews name on it.

Chuck S · April 23rd, 2006, 07:30 PM

Check your variable names in the showcat.php script

indiamike · April 23rd, 2006, 08:31 PM

Okay I got it.....worked the same I just had to add it to showproduct1.tmpl