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Requests / Re: User reviews in V4

« on: May 11, 2013, 06:09:18 PM »

This is a situation I had not thought of and also believe it would be a good idea to have this option - provided that it comes with a strong warning in the backend and is not the default.

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General / Re: 500 Error on User Review page

« on: March 21, 2013, 09:36:42 PM »

I am sorry that you have having so much trouble. Unfortunately, You will need help from the developer Row1 for this issue. Unless:

If the site is brand new, then it might be an issue with .htaccess and the live site URL. Sometimes I install sites into subdirectories of the main domain name when I am testing and I forget to change the URL rewrite path to /subfolder and have similar problems when accessing menu items.

If this is an existing site, do you have any URL/SEO components that sometimes hijack and change the site's URL to make them more SEF? An SEF related component could be blocking access to the component.

Generally:
Make sure user reviews is turned on both in the main configuration and also in the specific category configuration. Verify that you are logged in as a user with appropriate permissions as set to allow user reviews. Make sure you have yvBBCode installed AND also published. You mentioned changing servers so that should mean you are not using a virtual server such as wamp, lamp, mamp, xamp, etc I presume.

If none of that applies, have you created a topic in the new bugs forum? I do not check that forum so I wouldn't know but Row1 tends to stay on top of the bugs forum more than the general help forums here.

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General / Re: Help on instalation and configuration

« on: February 15, 2013, 05:10:34 PM »

Hello,

You can start to verify that the component is installed correctly by adding a sample review from the backend. This will let you see if the components is installed and working and also allow you to verify the front end menu and display.

In order to turn on user reviews you must enable that feature both in the main configuration as well as in the categories which you want to allow user reviews. If either one of these are not set to allow user reviews the component will not allow a front end user to submit a review.

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General / Re: 500 Error on User Review page

« on: February 07, 2013, 06:58:54 PM »

Can you log into your webserver with FTP or SSH and verify that the folders and files for simple review do not have restrictive permissions?

Verify that you have enable user reviews both in the main configuration and also in the category settings.

After that I suggest posting in the new bugs forum https://bitbucket.org/row1/simple-review/issues?status=new&status=open

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General / Re: User reviews experimental? is there a stable version

« on: January 26, 2013, 10:15:50 AM »

Hi,
Just downloaded and installed com_simple_review-4.0.02.zip
I am interested in deploying user reviews for a client via Joomla 2.5.
This SR version says "Alpha". Is that why user reviews is experimental? That seemed to be the whole point of "reviews" is to have users submit reviews, so I was a bit surprised to see that functionality neglected in this release. Of course, if there is a stable version, I can understand, but I cant seem to find a stable version of the component.
I must be missing something.

Hello,
The general concept of users providing input is not what this extension was originally based around. This general concept would be closer to a "ratings" extension. On the other hand a "review" is general done by someone like a movie or food critic, or a magazine. This was the original intent of the extension and the idea of allowing public or front end visitors to create these types of reviews was added more recently. That is why you see alpha. If you have a user of any kind add a review that will be the sole review. For a rating type of functionality there is comment and rating functionality built into the SR comment system. I hope this helps your understanding.

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Customization / Re: Sort by name, review score when selecting Tags

« on: January 10, 2013, 02:37:02 PM »

Hello,

This is not something that has yet been added to the component. However, if you know the code necessary it could be added. I imagine that it could be added to the tag portion of the template but maybe Row1 can add more to this information.

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General / Re: Using Search Plugin..??

« on: January 10, 2013, 02:34:16 PM »

Hello,

The search plugin is simply meant to allow the standard built-in joomla search module to be able to search reviews created in Simple Review as well as the standard joomla articles on your site.

Try adding a new module and from the list choose the built in search plugin (it may even be listed in the module page but it may not be active. Remember that the module must both be active and in a valid position in your template to show up.

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General / Re: Fatal error: Interface 'IConfigurable' not found

« on: December 03, 2012, 08:37:03 PM »

Hello,

I will be unable to help you with this issue which may be a bug in the version of SR you are using. 4.0.2 is considered an alpha release last I checked. The stable version is still 3.x.

For faster help, I suggest you post this in the NEW bug reporting page and the developer should be able to help you. Please visit the new bug page here:
https://bitbucket.org/row1/simple-review/issues

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General / Re: 404 Error when clicking on the Review

« on: October 19, 2012, 05:27:42 PM »

Your link does not go to a web page... Please check the link and repost the URL.

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General / Re: Will Simple Review Do What I Want?

« on: October 16, 2012, 08:51:52 PM »

This may work—depending on your criteria for community reviews. The organisers can post reviews and the community reviewers can leave a comment with a rating on that review.

I do not think this is what he is trying to accomplish. I believe he is trying to accomplish something like Newegg where "official" people / organization members can leave comments in a review much like NewEgg has a special background color for manufacturer responses.

In general I believe Simple Review is not designed to accomplish what he wants.
1) Simple review has zero mechanisms for managing organization submitted content, when that content something other than a review or comment. So if you are looking to have organizations submit artwork or software code you would need another component to manage that.
2) As I always stress, Simple Review is a "Review" component and not a "Rating" component. The design is based upon only a single "editorial style review" of each unique item. Then, below the review users can leave comments with ratings. Is this what you are trying to accomplish?
3) To create a review from the site's front it is highly recommended to limit permissions to specific registered users. The comments and ratings section can, if desired, be left public. But to each their own.

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General / Re: Trying to add logic the front-end

« on: October 10, 2012, 09:31:21 PM »

Hello, I know what you are trying to do. You want to access the PHP variables already sued rather than our placeholders which are meant for review bodies and html templates.

Unfortunately, the variable list I have on hand is from 2010 and can be found by searching the customization folder for the word variable, it is one of the top two results. However, SimpleReview has undergone extensive changes over the last two years so your best bet is to wait for a response from Row1, he is the developer and would have accurate information. I wish I could quickly help you

By the way, what changes are you planning om implementing?

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Customization / Re: Add new placeholders

« on: September 29, 2012, 11:53:45 AM »

Hello Andreimare, to do this you would have to write your own php code and in doing so alter the component. You are free to do this if you know how.

"Custom" fields which is built in are to change the name and type of field, but still utilizes existing placeholders.

There is a latest module which shows the most recently posted reviews and this can be enabled in the component without the separate module to shown at the top of the category list.

Also, you can display the date in the category list and even sort by it. What exactly are you trying to accomplish which cannot be done with the built in features so I can understand the problem?

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Customization / Re: Display Category Description of Parent Category

« on: August 09, 2012, 02:55:45 PM »

This is a bad idea because fields in a category are for reviews, you will need to fill out the field everytime you add a review in that category, but im not sure right now how to make the pparent category description show up, im on my phone and awqy from my pc.

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Requests / MOVED: Top rated - widget

« on: July 23, 2012, 02:16:00 PM »

This topic has been moved to Bugs (http://simple-review.com/forum/index.php?board=6.0).

http://simple-review.com/forum/index.php?topic=2621.0

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General / Re: RSS and Atom

« on: July 19, 2012, 05:15:02 PM »

Hello,

RSS feeds is an item on the current working request list. You can view the list in the request forum - it is stickied.