Review Foundry Review Engine User Manual |
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Whether you call it a review manager, a review script,
or product review software, Review Foundry is the premier application
for managing a customer review site.
This application was designed from the ground up to offer you all the features you'll need to collect customer reviews and (optionally) create a product comparison site. To gain a proper understanding of the capabilities of Review Foundry, please read at least the introductory parts of this manual before you begin your efforts to customize application templates and tables. |
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- ABOUT REVIEW FOUNDRY
- COPYRIGHT & USAGE
- INSTALLATION & REQUIREMENTS
- INSTALLING Review Foundry
- GETTING STARTED WITH REVIEW FOUNDRY
- How To Avoid Reading The User Manual
- Debranding/Disguising Review Foundry BEFORE Installing
- Debranding/Disguising Review Foundry AFTER Installation
- Installed. Now What?
- Tutorial Pages
- Administrative Pages
- Protecting Your Administrative Pages
- Public Pages
- Shared Or Non-Shared Reviews?
- Authenticating Your Forum Members
- Critical Limitations
- Foreign Languages
- TUTORIALS
- HOW TO CREATE AN AFFILIATE REVIEW SITE
- HOW TO ORGANIZE REVIEW SITE NAVIGATION
- HOW TO TILE REVIEW RECORDS
- HOW TO CREATE A PRODUCT COMPARISON SITE
- HOW TO CREATE AN ADULT REVIEW SITE
- HOW TO CREATE A GRAPHIC ARTIST REVIEW SITE
- HOW TO CREATE A SOCIAL REVIEW SITE
- HOW TO PUBLISH REVIEWS AS RSS FEEDS
- HOW TO CREATE A MUSIC REVIEW SITE
- HOW TO ADD GOOGLE MAPS TO YOUR REVIEW SITE
- NESTED DATA - THE RESTAURANT MENU PROBLEM
- TROUBLESHOOTING
- I see CGI source code when I run Review Foundry
- I get a 500 Internal Server Error
- My Build process never completes
- My Build process never begins
- My thumbnails are low quality
- I cannot thumbnail GIF images
- Why is my Top Reviewers Page not working?
- Why is sendmail not working?
- I get a LOCK TABLES error
- I get a CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE error
- I see Weird Characters Displayed
- I see 'regex' Errors when Adding Items
- I get a DBI error
- I cannot Upload Files
- My Template Modifications Don't Take
- FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
- Can you recommend any Web Designers?
- What are the Limitations for Large Databases?
- How do I set up a MySQL database?
- How do I change the content of the public navigation bar?
- How do I change the colors on public pages?
- I'm on a Mac. Where is my Category Browser?
- Can reviews be automatically approved?
- Where can I re-edit a review?
- Can review submissions be IP-restricted?
- How do I ADD a displayed field?
- How do I REMOVE a displayed field?
- Can I dispense with thumbnail images?
- How can I create a Buy Now Button?
- How Do I Make Review Foundry Appear On My Homepage?
- How Do I Add A Business Search To My Homepage?
- How Do I Add A Proximity Search To My Homepage?
- How do I place the homepage URL on the List Item page?
- How do I Upgrade?
- How do I move my Review Foundry installation to another server?
- How do I disable Member Photos and Avatars?
- How can I put up a Contact Form?
- LEGAL ISSUES
- ABOUT THE TEMPLATE-TOOLKIT
- TEMPLATES
- Admin Templates
- Public Templates
- The Navigation Template
- Nested Templates
- Editing a Template
- Special Template Hashes
- Language Templates
- Dumping The Data Structure
- UNDERSTANDING THINGS & CONTAINERS
- ITEM RECORDS
- Creating an Item
- Editable Item Fields
- Editable Non-Item Fields
- Dealing With Thousands Of Item Associations
- Adding New Item Fields
- Understanding The Table Definition
- MEMBER RECORDS
- Creating a Member
- Editable Member Fields
- Editable Non-Member Fields
- Dealing With Thousands Of Member Associations
- Adding New Member Fields
- SUPPLIER RECORDS
- Creating a Supplier
- Editable Supplier Fields
- Editable Non-Supplier Fields
- Dealing With Thousands Of Supplier Associations
- Adding New Supplier Fields
- CATEGORY RECORDS
- Creating a Category
- Editable Category Fields
- Editable Non-Category Fields
- Adding New Category Fields
- TEAM RECORDS
- YELLOW PAGE RECORDS
- Creating a Yellow Page
- Editable Yellow Page Fields
- Editable Non-Yellow Page Fields
- Adding New Yellow Page Fields
- REVIEW RECORDS
- RATING TYPES
- Creating a Rating Type
- Modifying a Rating Type
- Deleting a Rating Type
- The Overall Rating Type
- Inheriting Rating Types
- Shared Rating Types
- Displayed Rating Types
- EDITORIAL REVIEWS
- The Importance Of Editorial Reviews
- Single Rating Attribute
- Multiple Rating Attributes
- Matching Review Components
- Search Weights And Re-Indexing
- Alternate Color Schemes
- SEARCH ENGINE
- Keyphrase Searches
- Improving Search Results By Indexing More Columns
- Improving Search Results By Disabling Stemming
- Supplier Searches
- EDITORS
- IMPORTING RECORDS
- Overview
- Command Line Arguments
- Output to Screen
- Importable Records
- Category and Yellowpage Imports
- Parsing Records
- Required Fields
- Problems With Unique Fields
- Recommendations
- Examples
- Non Review Foundry Modules Used During Import
- PULLING DATA WITH SSI
- Fetching From A Remote Site
- Specifying Records By ID or SKU
- Grabbing Latest Reviews
- Grabbing Latest Items, Members, Suppliers
- Grabbing Average Ratings
- Tiling Options
- Suppressing HTML Tags
- PULLING DATA WITH JAVASCRIPT
- Fetching From A Remote Site
- Specifying Records By ID or SKU
- Grabbing Average Ratings
- Specifying An Alternate Review Page
- BUILDING PAGES
- Via The Browser
- Via The Command Line
- Conflicting User Identities
- Dealing With Timeouts
- Via Cron Job
- Meaning Of The Build Plan
- Building Compressed Pages
- Reducing Total Page Count
- Things That Can Go Wrong When Building
- RANKING THINGS AND REVIEWERS
- VERIFYING URLS
- ADDING COLUMNS TO A TABLE
- TEXT Column
- INT Column
- ENUM Column
- DATE Column
- FLOAT Column
- Other Column Types
- Special Form Types
- ZIPCODE Form Type
- POSTCODE_UK Form Type
- POSTCODE_CA Form Type (CHAR column)
- CONFIGURATION SETTINGS
- Review Foundry Key
- Paths / URLs
- MySQL Server
- Email / Subscribe
- Skin Management
- Skin Style / Colors
- Skin Images
- Thumbnails
- Avatars / Logos
- Upload Types
- Build / Browse
- Submit / Join
- Search
- Sort Things
- Index
- Verify URLs
- Reviews / Rank
- Shared Reviews
- Validation
- Auth Coupling
- Miscellaneous
- ABOUT DBOPS
- ALTERNATE ENVIRONMENTS
- APPENDIX
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