Reviews - Updated [Support Thread]

[lat9]

no problems, been a pleasure banging my head for an afternoon. no much knowledge of php here but still good to read code and make some comparison. not really sure if it was the code itself or just my template, the layout was quite different.

maybe somebody using it in the current version with a different template can say. using yourstore from perfectus. great template.

regards

Ah, that makes a little more sense (to me, anyway) as that YourStore template does have a tendency to carve the out of the built-in template modules.

[shags38]

Hi Cindy - I have gone through the forum but I may have missed this, and likely misinterpreting the 'guest' thing (so for anyone NOT logged in I call a guest)

- Q how does a guest enter their name in the 'written by' for writing a review? The only way I could get the plugin to work as a guest was to change Configuration->Minimum Values->>Product Review Write - Guest Reviewer Name (default: 5) to 0 - otherwise the review did not submit (and the 'your review has been submitted for approval' message does not appear at top of page).

I am using westminster_new template - screenshot below - there isn't a text box to allow typing of name, a template issue?

I look forward to your reply.

cheers,
Mike
p.s. I hope you escaped the worst of the latest hurricane (Dorian?)

[shags38]

oooops!! forgot to attach screenshot

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[shags38]

Hello Cindy - my apologies - please IGNORE my posts above - I figured out the issue was to do with my template - jumped the gun too early. This plugin works great.

There is one question though :) - can the date of a review be changed after submission - date cannot be edited in admin/catalog/reviews (only review text which is strange, content can be edited but nothing else).

Because I didn't have the reviews by guests set up properly for a long, long time I have missed out on some who would have otherwise left reviews - they actually sent emails saying how happy they were with the product(s) - I want to copy the content of their positive remarks and submit a review with it but I really want to be able to change the dates otherwise I could have a number of reviews all with the same date which may look suspicious to Mr Google Bot - any ideas?

cheers Mike

[lat9]

Hello Cindy - my apologies - please IGNORE my posts above - I figured out the issue was to do with my template - jumped the gun too early. This plugin works great.

There is one question though :) - can the date of a review be changed after submission - date cannot be edited in admin/catalog/reviews (only review text which is strange, content can be edited but nothing else).

Because I didn't have the reviews by guests set up properly for a long, long time I have missed out on some who would have otherwise left reviews - they actually sent emails saying how happy they were with the product(s) - I want to copy the content of their positive remarks and submit a review with it but I really want to be able to change the dates otherwise I could have a number of reviews all with the same date which may look suspicious to Mr Google Bot - any ideas?

cheers Mike

Mike, the plugin affects only the storefront "offering" and acceptance of reviews by guests; it doesn't have any admin-level component. That address-change can be performed in the admin, through a kind of convoluted process, though.

Log into the admin, go to Catalog->Reviews and view the review whose date should be updated. You'll see a link similar to the following:

http://localhost/site/admin/reviews.php?page=1&rID=16&action=edit

That rID value identifies the reviews_id associated with that review.

Armed with that information, go to Tools->Install SQL Patches and enter the following to change that review's date-added to a specific date:

UPDATE reviews SET date_added = '2019-09-18 00:00:00' WHERE reviews_id = 16 LIMIT 1;

Alternatively, you could set the date_added to today's date:

UPDATE reviews SET date_added = now() WHERE reviews_id = 16 LIMIT 1;

[shags38]

Mike, the plugin affects only the storefront "offering" and acceptance of reviews by guests; it doesn't have any admin-level component. That address-change can be performed in the admin, through a kind of convoluted process, though.

Log into the admin, go to Catalog->Reviews and view the review whose date should be updated. You'll see a link similar to the following:

http://localhost/site/admin/reviews.php?page=1&rID=16&action=edit

That rID value identifies the reviews_id associated with that review.

Armed with that information, go to Tools->Install SQL Patches and enter the following to change that review's date-added to a specific date:

UPDATE reviews SET date_added = '2019-09-18 00:00:00' WHERE reviews_id = 16 LIMIT 1;

Alternatively, you could set the date_added to today's date:

UPDATE reviews SET date_added = now() WHERE reviews_id = 16 LIMIT 1;

Thank you very much Cindy .... again you have come to the fore or as we would say in Australia "your blood is worth bottling" :)

Very much appreciated.

cheers, Mike

[simon1066]

ZC v1.5.6
OPC v2.3.3
Reviews Updated v1.2.0
plus other mods

This mod is perhaps showing its age but there's a slight conflict between it and OPC's guest checkout. It's not major and a rare occurrence:

If a customer starts to checkout as a guest and does not complete, then goes to write a review (as a guest) they are taken to the homepage with the banner 'Access to that page requires a registered account, You can ...'

I think this is because the OPC session's "order_placed_by_guest" element is not cleared until post checkout. Beyond that (to quote Manuel) 'I know nothing' :)