Book Reviews 1.0.1

[Rob]

Andy, sounds like you need this, but with categories

I doubt the resource manager will support multiple ratings, amazon integration, all reviews from user, latest reviews and other stuff. I faced the fact that the resource manager isn't really going to be a full blown review system, I stand to be corrected but felt the need to work on this for my purposes.

 

[Luxus]

Just wanted to show my support here for a general review add-on (I'm interested specifically in reviewing video games and hardware). I would gladly pay for it.

 

[Rho Delta]

Yeah if you got an API working for all amazon products and the ability to create categories to put review in... I would gladly pay to help make it happen.

 

[DRE]

Doubt anyone will use it but installed it anyway.

 

[Paul]

Well i'm in there for a generic "reviews" version.... dont mind contributing...

 

[Andy.N]

Andy, sounds like you need this, but with categories

I doubt the resource manager will support multiple ratings, amazon integration, all reviews from user, latest reviews and other stuff. I faced the fact that the resource manager isn't really going to be a full blown review system, I stand to be corrected but felt the need to work on this for my purposes.

Yes, sounds like it.
1) I just installed this addon and would love to see the ability to grab data from Amazon once we enter the isbn number. It already grabs the cover images so it shouldn't be hard to grab the edition number, description, kindle version id, etc. We really shouldn't have to copy and paste the data from Amazon.com when we add a book
2) Can we modify/add each rating category when people write a book review?
3) If you can expand this to cover other categories to offer more generic review which you already have the framework. As for layout on how different categories should work together, just look at the Resource Manager
4) If the generic reviews can have a form where people can enter text for each question, it would totally meet my need. Think review of universities. I can ask people to review its admission process, teaching quality, career services, etc.

I'm willing to contribute to make this happen.

 

[onthefly]

Got this error,

Zend_Db_Statement_Mysqli_Exception: Mysqli statement execute error : Incorrect string value: '\xE2\x94\x80 or...' for column 'book_description' at row 1 - library/Zend/Db/Statement/Mysqli.php:214

#0 /nfs/c07/h02/mnt/11/domains/flytyingbug.com/html/library/Zend/Db/Statement.php(297): Zend_Db_Statement_Mysqli->_execute(Array)
#1 /nfs/c07/h02/mnt/11/domains/flytyingbug.com/html/library/Zend/Db/Adapter/Abstract.php(479): Zend_Db_Statement->execute(Array)
#2 /nfs/c07/h02/mnt/11/domains/flytyingbug.com/html/library/Zend/Db/Adapter/Abstract.php(574): Zend_Db_Adapter_Abstract->query('INSERT INTO `br...', Array)
#3 /nfs/c07/h02/mnt/11/domains/flytyingbug.com/html/library/XenForo/DataWriter.php(1591): Zend_Db_Adapter_Abstract->insert('br_books', Array)
#4 /nfs/c07/h02/mnt/11/domains/flytyingbug.com/html/library/XenForo/DataWriter.php(1580): XenForo_DataWriter->_insert()
#5 /nfs/c07/h02/mnt/11/domains/flytyingbug.com/html/library/XenForo/DataWriter.php(1381): XenForo_DataWriter->_save()
#6 /nfs/c07/h02/mnt/11/domains/flytyingbug.com/html/library/Waindigo/BookReviews/ControllerPublic/Book.php(361): XenForo_DataWriter->save()
#7 /nfs/c07/h02/mnt/11/domains/flytyingbug.com/html/library/XenForo/FrontController.php(310): Waindigo_BookReviews_ControllerPublic_Book->actionSaveBook()
#8 /nfs/c07/h02/mnt/11/domains/flytyingbug.com/html/library/XenForo/FrontController.php(132): XenForo_FrontController->dispatch(Object(XenForo_RouteMatch))
#9 /nfs/c07/h02/mnt/11/domains/flytyingbug.com/html/index.php(13): XenForo_FrontController->run()
#10 {main}
Request State

{main}
Request State
array(3) {
["url"] => string(45) "http://flytyingbug.com/book-reviews/save-book"
["_GET"] => array(0) {
}
["_POST"] => array(15) {
["book_name"] => string(30) "50 Fly-tying Patterns in a Box"
["book_seo_name"] => string(39) "Fly-tying-Patterns-Box-Peter-Gathercole"
["book_author"] => string(16) "Peter Gathercole"
["book_publisher"] => string(27) "Barron's Educational Series"
["book_ISBN"] => string(10) "0764195026"
["book_ASIN"] => string(0) ""
["book_purchaseurl"] => string(0) ""
["message_html"] => string(819) "<p>Sport fishermen who tie their own flies ─ or who want to learn this fascinating art ─ will love this boxed set of cards. Each presents a step-by-step series of captioned color photos that instruct on how to tie one of 50 flies that have proven effective among fishermen in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia. Examples vary in complexity, with fly-tying patterns to fit both beginner and advanced skill levels. Here are dry flies, nymphs and bugs, wet flies, streamers, and hairwings ─ a wide selection of traditional and up-to-date flies favored by experienced sport fishermen to catch salmon, trout, bass, and other game fish. Enclosed with these handsome instruction cards is a 32-page booklet describing necessary fly-tying tools and supplies plus general instructions for getting started.</p>"
["_xfRelativeResolver"] => string(39) "http://flytyingbug.com/book-reviews/new"
["priority"] => string(1) "2"
["services"] => array(1) {
[0] => string(1) "6"
}
["_xfToken"] => string(53) "2,1337028382,c71359e91d468ff6664f67d89912e9072f46b35d"
["_xfRequestUri"] => string(17) "/book-reviews/new"
["_xfNoRedirect"] => string(1) "1"
["_xfResponseType"] => string(4) "json"
}
}

 

[Andy.N]

Feature suggestion:
When someone submits a review of a book, display a popup or something to allow them to share their reviews on FB/Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.
Duplicate detection: if someone add a book that has the same isbn, it will provide a link to the existing listing.

The permission to overwrite purchase link should be limited to usergroup.

 

[Rob]

Yes, sounds like it.
1) I just installed this addon and would love to see the ability to grab data from Amazon once we enter the isbn number. It already grabs the cover images so it shouldn't be hard to grab the edition number, description, kindle version id, etc. We really shouldn't have to copy and paste the data from Amazon.com when we add a book
2) Can we modify/add each rating category when people write a book review?
3) If you can expand this to cover other categories to offer more generic review which you already have the framework. As for layout on how different categories should work together, just look at the Resource Manager
4) If the generic reviews can have a form where people can enter text for each question, it would totally meet my need. Think review of universities. I can ask people to review its admission process, teaching quality, career services, etc.

The permission to overwrite purchase link should be limited to usergroup.

I'm willing to contribute to make this happen.

Ok, I hear ya re all of the above. I worked on this mainly for my own purposes with a specific need. Only admins add books on our site and we also have a big publisher as a sponsor (hence the priority on books). I will add the purchase override permission in the next release and look at your bug onthefly. The rest will come in time with a seperate mod. I'm not sure if this will be totally from scratch of it will extend the resource manager. I highly suspect it will be from scratch however.

 

[Rob]

Got this error,

I reproduced this, thanks for the detailed debug info.
It seems the mod doesn't like the '─' character in descriptions. For now, I would use '-' instead.
This will be fixed in the next release.

 

[avi]

Thank you very much for this plugin !! I will be using this in my forum.

Is it possible to change Amazon & use other sites to buy books ?

 

[Rob]

Thank you very much for this plugin !! I will be using this in my forum.

Is it possible to change Amazon & use other sites to buy books ?

Hi,

Not easily. Depending on which site you want to use I may be able to change this for you. Please drop me a private conversation with all the details. Thanks.

 

[Shinjiru]

Hey,

Where i can change "Book Reviews" in the Tab to another Word, like "Books". There are so many Templates with this Word, dont know where i can change it...

 

[Rob]

You need to edit the phrase br_book_reviews

 

[Digital Doctor]

Cool addon. LOTS of potential as a more generic Reviews Tool. I (and many others) want a Reviews Addon. But not a books one.
Categories would be very helpful.

DEMOS: http://www.flytyingbug.com/book-reviews/
DEMO of individual book: http://www.flytyingbug.com/book-reviews/spey-flies-dee-history-construction.2/
- looks great on flytyingbug.com ! Especially the individual book view ... very sleek.
I hope there is a 4 of 5 people found this review helpful option (haven't logged in to check). or a Like option. I hope it supports the Tag Me addon.



I think this view is "OK".
To me, and the people who sell books .... the COVER is what sells the book. These mini thumbnails don't really cut it. If I audit the space used for various elements I see the space used to display the rating (right side) is over two times the size of the thumbnail of the cover. Not a good use of space IMO. This view looks like the usual forum thread converted into something - and it doesn't work for my eyes ( I must admit this is a pet peeve of mine ).

Books ... even more so than most things .... have the opportunity to display something people are looking for ... THE COVER !
I think a tiled view of mostly the covers would look nicer. (2 or 3 columns ?)

I can easily put all the information in a much smaller space.


So making the default view with 2 columns might help it look better.



OK ... maybe 3 columns ?

IDEA: Audio reviews ... people submit a 30 second review of the book and what they liked.

 

[Digital Doctor]

Maybe it should be a 3 column layout like this ?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/books/ref=sv_b_3
left: categories
middle .. book list.
right .. other book listings.

 

[Morgain]

Categories on the left is excellent.
I don't get the 3rd column use - I'd suggest a snippet preview of the review that user fills in separately AFTER writing the main review.

Pulling in data from Amazon excellent - ISBN publisher etc is great.

Rob please check with Jon about the templating of different kinds of reviews. I had always intended Library to have an admin level template function. So for example if I want to make a Quotes template for my Libraries I currently have Title/ Content/ Author but I would add Quote Author/ Quote Date/ and Quote Context.
An Events template I would use the default Title/ Content/ and the Date field. Etc
I want a Bibliography and Webliography (URL Directory) too.

So my stock of fields would add as I built templates for each need.
Surely this is the same as a generic Review system - only Reviews need ratings?
I'm already nagging Jon for categories for Articles within a Library just like what is needed here, and better display on listings (sticky Articles, Latest Articles).

Surely there is masses of overlap and it would be best if possible to work the generic Reviews together with Library?

 

[captainslater]

Is it possible to support Amazon.de or other international Amazon sites?

 

[Morgain]

Fantastic initiative add-on but I support the need for it to be more generic.
Books, films, journals/ magazines, events come to mind for me.

Also categories are vital. A great potmess dependent on searching is never appetising. If as reader I can see the kinds of topic categories available I'm going to be a lot more attracted.

Fraid I can't contribute as I am already paying for the Library + another big specialist addon which is a lot.

 

[Andy.N]

Is it possible to support Amazon.de or other international Amazon sites?

It is in the setting page.