jReviews is a review and rating system (or PHP review script) for the Joomla and Mambo Content Management Systems. With jReviews you can easily build a sophisticated review site or add a review section to your site. Feature Highlights - Review everything: movies, music, cars, restaurants, hotels, websites, software, mobile phones, service providers, recipes, travel, books, consumer electronics, articles, you name it
- Custom fields in content & reviews: create custom forms for the main entry and also for user review.
- Advanced search: allow users to search using the custom fields. Design custom search forms with the advanced search module.
- Editor and user reviews: enable only editorial reviews, user reviews, both or none. If you disable reviews you can still take advantage of custom fields and advanced search.
- Customizable templates: clear separation of code and template files allow for easier customization of jReviews.
- Favorites lists: users can add and remove items to their favorites lists and share them with other users.
- Web 2.0: use of ajax and other effects to improve the user experience.
- Reviews RSS Feeds: propagate your review content throughout the web.
- SEO Ready: friendly urls through the use of SEF extensions and a SEO Manager to adjust title, meta keywords and descriptions for custom fields.
Summary of Features Rating and reviews - Use it for user reviews, user & editor reviews or editor reviews only.
- Define which users are to be considered editors or administrators can make any review an editor review.
- Create multiple sets of rating criteria, assignable to content categories.
- Select a rating scale of 1-5,1-10,1-100.
- Review usefulness voting and inappropriate reporting.
- User ranking based on number of reviews posted and usefulness.
- New review notification.
Content submission - Users can submit new items in any of the categories.
- Allow anyone or just registered users to submit a review or an item. This can be automatically published or held for moderation.
- Automatic thumbnails are generated for uploaded images and images are shown as mini-galleries for each content item.
- New content notification.
Custom fields - Create multiple groups of custom fields, assignable to content categories for new content submissions.
- Custom fields include: text, textarea, email, website, select list, integer, decimal, code - can be used for buy now buttons, multiple select list, checkboxes, radio buttons.
- Easily assign images to custom fields with preset values (i.e. select lists, checkboxes and radio buttons)
- Sort content lists on ascending/descending order based on standard content data (title, date, hits, author), on review information (user and editor ratings) and on custom fields (i.e. price)
- Backend editor for custom fields makes it easy to add and edit custom fields for existing content
- Place custom fields anywhere you want inside content items and content lists by adding the appropriate tags to the provided com_content template.
Advanced search - Allows users to search for items using the custom fields defined in the administration. These can be select lists, text inputs, etc.
- The administrator can decide which fields should appear in the advanced search form.
- There can be many different advanced search forms depending on the different forms you put together with the custom fields.
Directory listing - Create multiple directories by assigning categories to them. Each directory can be setup as a different menu on your site. This provides another level above sections to group and present content.
- The directory layout is customizable in terms of section and category columns. Categories can be presented in bullet lists or separated by commas.
Modules and Community Builder Plugins
- JReviews comes with a great set of modules and CB plugins to enhance the look and usability of your site.
Integration with other extensions - Integration with Community Builder so user name always links back to profile and avatar is displayed with reviews and on user rank page.
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