Installation

1. Upload all files in this zip to a directory on your server called "review". Any directory name can be used. If a name other than review is used, be sure to change the "$directory" variable in config.php to reflect your change.

2. Create the mysql database tables. Look in the admin directory for a directory called sql. Use all the files in the sql directory to create your mysql tables.

3. Open functions.php and change the information as documented in that file to match your database access information.

4. Open config.php and make appropriate changes.

5. If your server has a version earlier than 4.1.0 do a search and replace for the following:

Replace $_POST with $HTTP_POST_VARS
Replace $_GET with $HTTP_GET_VARS

6. Open your web browser to http://www.yoursite.com/review/admin/index.php. Log in with the following information:

Username - webmaster
Password - 4tugboat

After you are sure the script is working correctly, you should change the username and password for security reasons!

7. Your first step will be to click on the link for "Add a Category" and then "Add Item for Review". Enter the appropriate information.

8. You should now be able to go to http://www.yoursite.com/review/demo.php and see your product listed on the page.

Usage

When you want a product to be reviewed, you log into the admin area and click a link that reads, "Add Item for Review". After you add the item, you will be given a link code to use.

Then you simply hyperlink your product or item using that specific url. When a user clicks the link or hyperlinked image, they will be taken to the review page for that item.

You can rename demo.php. Just be sure that the extension remains .php. You really don't even have to use the demo.php page. You can use your own page and just place a link to each of the reviews.

Optionally, you can have the review inserted into any php page but you must append the item_id to the end of the url. For example, I have a page called review_insert_sample.php and I want the reviews to appear for item_id number 11. This is how I would link to the page:

http://www.review-script.com/review_insert_sample.php?item_id=11

Must be a php page. Add a question mark after php, an equal sign and then the item_id of the product you want on the page. Then insert the following code into the page where you want the review to appear.

<?
//if you're including this file in a directory other than the directory that review_insert.php is in, you must put the full path below or the script won't know where to find it.
include ("review_insert.php");
?>

Changing Appearance

Open the file named body.php. It is divided into two parts...the header or top of your page and the footer or the bottom of your page. This can and should be edited to match the appearance of your site.

If you have questions please post them on the forum at http://www.review-script.com/forum/

We charge for installations, so please do not contact us unless you have checked all of the items above and are willing to pay the standard installation fee as posted on our web site. The standard installation fee is for standard installations that take less than one hour. Installations that take longer than one hour due to non-standard server setups, server misconfigurations, or for any other reason will incur additional fees.