No, it's not in that phase yet. It will be fully responsive and will also have html5 meta tags for everything. This means that Google searches will show a great many details like product, rating stars, image, review texts, etc.
In today's Have You Seen thread, I'm going to show you our advanced searching. We recently showed you custom fields, and now we're going to show you how you can search by those fields.
At the search page you'll see a new tab called "Reviews". This will search all the reviews and items in your system. The everything tab will also search for XenReviews content.
If you pick a category that has custom fields attached to it, those custom fields will appear to narrow results.
For example, to try finding "Madden" I would fill it out like this:
As you can see, the input boxes will suggest data that has been submitted. This is to help avoid false negatives that would result from a typo or missing a space.
The keyword or posted by fields still require content, this is just a way to narrow the results down a little farther.
This search results in two results.
As you can see, we've replaced the avatar that normally shows besides threads and posts with the item logo. If there are any additional images, there will be a "Images: {x}" which if you click will pop up the lightbox that exists throughout XenForo.
Crowd Fund
Exactly 90 days ago this project was successfully funded by the XenForo community and now we have reached the important milestone of the first release (Alpha 1 - V0.0.1). While still a long way from V1.0.0 we feel we have a good amount of the core set up.
We have gone over several of the features in our Have You Seen series. To recap: we have integrated with several of XenForo's default features, created custom fields, extended searching for review content, layed the ground work for favorite items, started implementing select monetary features, and provided auto completed fields.
There are several more features that didn't get spotlighted in that series. We're still building upon these features but we'll see which ones you spot and we'll bring more attention to them once they're more sophisticated.
Installation
Please note that as with all software still in development stages, you should not install this in a live environment. We do encourage you to install it in a development staging area and let a few people "play with it".
Bugs and Suggestions
When you stumble upon any bugs, please report them. If you see something that you think could have a better design please post it in the cosmetic suggestions and if there is a feature you feel could be more advanced or improved post in the feature suggestions.
We welcome all suggestions and appreciate all feedback!
Where, From Here?
Over the next week, we will be fixing all bugs reported by you guys while continuing development of some features that were incomplete in this version. We plan for the first few weeks to have, at the very least, weekly builds including bug fixes and introducing new features.
The next set of features that we will be working on implementing will be monetary features and our seo benefits.
Where Can I Download?
A zipped file has been posted in the licensed area. If you don't have a license yet, you can still buy one. There are no longer any life time upgrades offered and the price is $75 for a one year license now. The year does not start until the first official version is released.
I'm proud to release to you Alpha 2. This last week you guys helped us find a tremendous amount of bugs, with Daniel's help we were able to squash most of those.
With this release I also took many of your guys' suggestions into consideration. I've separated review nodes from the other nodes, so now you will have a dedicated "Review Node Tree" instead of them being blended. I've also cleaned up a ton of code in our base, moved a lot of files around, and cleaned up a lot of how things work. For that reason I am having to ask you guys to install this as a fresh install. That means delete ALL your old XenReviews files (deleting /library/XenReviews will work fine) and then uploading these new files. Simply overwriting the files will work too - but then you will have a lot of old orphan files that are no longer used. Also, because of all the database changes that were necessary to separate the nodes, I don't have the time to write SQL upgrade scripts for you guys to transfer from the other nodes to this new system.
During these alpha stages this should be understood, once we get farther into the alpha stages / into the beta stages, we will provide solid upgrade scripts. This will probably be the only release where we are unable to do so.
If you are one of our much-appreciated licensed users, you will find the downloaded in the License Holder's section!
Thanks! As usual, please keep posting all bugs & suggestions!
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I The solution I use now, which I can't wait to replace, .
It's as designedLooking good!!
Although I did get an error when I clicked on vBulletin (ha)
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Looking good!!
Although I did get an error when I clicked on vBulletin (ha)
Code:Server Error array_splice() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given XenForo_Application::handlePhpError() array_splice() in XenReviews/ControllerPublic/Item.php at line 1131 XenReviews_ControllerPublic_Item->_getDefaultViewParams() in XenReviews/XRMerchantFramework/ControllerPublic/Item.php at line 7 XenReviews_XRMerchantFramework_ControllerPublic_Item->_getDefaultViewParams() in XenReviews/ControllerPublic/Item.php at line 37 XenReviews_ControllerPublic_Item->actionIndex() in XenForo/FrontController.php at line 337 XenForo_FrontController->dispatch() in XenForo/FrontController.php at line 134 XenForo_FrontController->run() in /home/xenrev/public_html/index.php at line 13
Can you say which solution that is (and why you want it replaced?) -- if you can't post it publicly, please PM me. Thank you.
The original idea was to replicate resource manager functionality, but it was soon discovered that this was too limiting and we only needed specific things that the resource manager has.Completely random question, because I've been keeping my eye on this product and its development...
Has no one thought of just extending Resource Manager to be a review system?
Is there a way to install this and run it to help with the development? I'd like to be involved. I think I can help with the affiliate links part of it for those who use it as a product review engine like I will.
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