Dizkus

Hello all,
New to the forum and I wanted to ask if anyone has or know of a review module that is better than the standard one in PN?
I need to be able to split reviews into named categories with sub categories within them and maybe with small thumbnail pics for the categories..
Please let me know if you have seen one and PM me your website link if you use one so I can see it in action..

Cheers Paul

Hey Pdfx!
Welcome to the Community Forums!

I guess that the default Reviews module can accomplish what you want to do.
Currently it support Multi-Categorization in any level given by the categories module, and the small pic for the category can be an attribute of each category, as the News module does when upgrade the .7 Topics...

The only think to code is the customized shortURLs for that module and there you go!

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- Mateo T. -
Mis principios... son mis fines

hey
thanks for the reply, i will look into that, but I dont want alphabetical letter as the titles is that easy enough to change?

P

Sure!
you can customize the look'n feel of the module in the way you want, using the template overriding (see this)...

i'll open one NOC project for each Value Addon module,
so, you'll be able to submit feature request there Ok?

Happy PostNuking

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- Mateo T. -
Mis principios... son mis fines

Hello thanks for the swift response, but im a little lost there, just need toi understand the jargon then i will be up with it..lol

NOC means?

Ive looked at that page it makes sense a little but the URL they say for global overides i dont have in my PostNuke (Global template override are located the directory config/templates/) or am i missing something? Wouldnt it be easier to just look at the code in index.php of reviews?

Paul

Hehehehehe
it seems that you're talking about the 0.76x module? (or PHP-Nuke? )
But i'm talking about the 0.8 release... If you're talking to improve a .7 module, IMHO that's not worth because the 0.8 release is almost out of the door.

So, what i can say of the 0.8 workflow:
It's recommended to not modify the module templates to avoid conflicts when you upgrade it, ans instead that, use the override option. PostNuke has a global override directory (/config) and the Themes directory (/themes) to allocate your customized stuff.

You can duplicate the Review's templates in your theme, then customize them. Do this:
1. Create this folder: /themes/$YourTheme/templates/modules/Reviews
2. Copy all the templates of the reviews module (located in the folder /modules/Reviews/pntemplates) to the new folder.
3. Customize the cloned templates in the way you want.

So, i think that you should begin to work with 0.8 and test the upgrade process for your site.

P/S: You don't know the PostNuke Network Operations Center (NOC)?
I'm afraid that you're a PHP-Nuker just kiddind..
take a look to the AutoLink, there are a lot of PostNuke resources

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- Mateo T. -
Mis principios... son mis fines

YEah i am talking about.764 as I have just installed that on my new host!!
I will investigate 8 as soon as its here..I also will look through the site more and learn PN better.

I also think you misunderstood me a little. Here goes again.

I want to add categories, which i have done by changing the alphabet etc in index.php, I would like to add a few extra fields on the submit review page is that possible? so people can submit a more detailed review?

Thanks p



edited by: Pdfx, Mar 02, 2008 - 03:32 PM