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Amazon styled Reviews and Ratings
Software
- Can be used to rate books, videos,
music, images, websites....the sky's
the limit!
- Fast mysql backend
- One template file controls the
entire site/script layout
- Users can add html to their reviews,
including images!
New
Features
-Added a Badword
Filter. Prevents users from using
profanity in their reviews.
-Admin feature allows administrator to
select what words not to allow and
what words they should be replaced
with. Also the ability to edit and
delete the badword list.
-The badword list can also contain
html code. For example, you might want
to change the color of font of the
goodwords to let your readers know a
word substitution took place.
8/10/2004 -
Version
3.0 Released! Lots of
new features!
-Option for users to recommend a
specific product to their friends.
They can click a link and enter the
name and email of a friend and the
script emails the recommendation.
-Admin feature allows you to view the
name and email address of the sender
and recipient along with the
personalized message sent. This
information can be exported to your
spreadsheet program with the click of
a button! Great if you want to add it
to your contacts database!
-Now compatible with PHP version 5.0
-Optimized to work on servers running
with register_globals set to on or
off.
-Admin Area now shows how many User
Submitted Items for Review need to be
approved.
7/23/2004 -
New
Features
- Front page now
displays how many reviews were made on
the product
- User now has the ability to suggest
an item for review
- Admin receives email when an item is
suggested
- Admin is able to reject an item
suggestion. There is also an area
where you can optionally explain to
the user why the suggestion was not
implemented.
- When an item is approved or rejected
the user suggesting the item is
automatically notified via email.
7/07/2004 -
New
Features
- Admin panel allows
you to set the display order of the
categories
- Admin panel allows you to set the
display order of the review items
within the categories (could be used
to sell the top listing position to
the manufacturer/owner/dealer of the
product being reviewed).
- Admin panel allows you to edit items
for review.
- Disabled ability for users to insert
dangerous javascript code into their
reviews.
5/26/2004 -
New
Feature - Added
function to check and see if user has
already reviewed an item. If so it
denies the second review. The config
file will allow you to specify whether
or not you want your users to have the
ability to review an item multiple
times.
4/15/2004 -
Version
2.0 Released! Lots of
new features!
- Option in the config file to require
registration.
- Option in the config file to allow
reviews to be posted without admin
approval.
-Upon registration, user and
administrator receive a welcome email
with registration information.
-Multiple (4)Layout Options:
-Option in the Admin Area to add,
delete and edit categories. Allows
reviews to be displayed in Yahoo style
categories.
-Optional integration with phpBB
Bulletin Board. The same user database
is used.
3/14/2004 - Added a
review archive that will enable google
and other search engines to index
every review on your site! Here's an
example of the "search engine
friendly" archive -
3/6/2004 - The next
version of this script will give the
administrator the ability to specify
whether or not users have to register
before posting a review. The config
file also has a setting to allow
reviews to be posted without admin
approval.
3/2/2004 - By demand,
"display the number of stars that a
product has on the demo page i.e. a
list of all the products and it's
current rating next to it".
2/27/2004 - When
approving reviews, I added the display
of the item name and type. This will
allow the admin the ability to make
sure the review is relevant to the
item. If you ask for a review of a ski
resort, and the review says "great
beach" you'll know not to approve it.
Also added: When a user submits a
review, the administrator will receive
an email notification that contains
the review as well as the user's IP
address.
2/26/2004 -
Changed the
review_insert.php feature so that
after reviewing your product, the user
gets returned to the page where they
viewed the review.
2/12/2004 -
Enhanced the
feature added on 11/27/2003.
1/29/2004 -
Long
overdue...added the ability to change
the admin username and password from
the administration menu.
11/27/2003 -
New
Feature
added in version
1.4. There is now a new file that will
enable you to insert one short line of
code (include "review_insert.php";)
into any php page and the reviews will
appear exactly where you place the
tag. Very convenient and customizable!
11/16/2003 -
Fixed a very
minor bug. The review item name was
not showing on a page in which there
were no user reviews. A few simple
lines of code took care of the
problem.
9/2/2003 -
New
Feature
added in version
1.3 and a bug fix that will affect
certain servers. The admin area has a
couple of enhanced features including
the ability to edit review
information.
3/16/2003 -
New
Feature added in
version 1.2 - Users can sort the
reviews with the following search
criteria:
• Newest First
• Oldest First
• Highest Rating First
• Lowest Rating First
• Most Helpful First
• Least Helpful First
• 5-Star Reviews Only
• 4-Star Reviews Only
• 3-Star Reviews Only
• 2-Star Reviews Only
• 1-Star Reviews Only
3/15/2003 -
New
Feature added in
version 1.1 - You can now specify how
many reviews you want displayed per
page! Will also display Previous and
Next links as well as what page the
user is on.
Very flexible! Have your
review page auto-generated from the
database or add links to your existing
html pages.
For example, the link to my review
page of this script is . Each product
or item will have it's own item_id
number.
Admin Control Panel -
From the Admin Control Panel you can:
• Approve a Review before it is
listed
• Delete a Review
• Delete all Unapproved Reviews
• Add Item for Review
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