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Reviews is a review and rating system for the Joomla and Mambo Content Management Systems. It is compatible with Joomla 1.x, Joomla 1.5.x and Mambo 4.6.x

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.