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Whether you call it a review engine, a review script, or review software, Review Foundry is the premier application
for managing a review section on your website. So flexible, it even allows people to review one another.

• ABOUT REVIEW FOUNDRY
• What Is It?
• Documentation
• COPYRIGHT & USAGE
• INSTALLATION & REQUIREMENTS
• Choosing A Good Web Hosting Company
• INSTALLING Review Foundry
• Downloading
• Finding Perl on your Server
• Preparing Installation Directories
• Review Foundry Installer
• 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
• 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?
• LEGAL ISSUES
• Disclaimer
• Dealing With Fake Reviews
• Defamation Issues
• ABOUT THE TEMPLATE-TOOLKIT
• What Is It?
• Documentation
• 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
• THINGS
• Items
• Members
• Suppliers
• CONTAINERS
• Categories
• Teams
• Yellow Pages
• 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
• Creating a Team
• Editable Team Fields
• Editable Non-Team Fields
• Adding New Team Fields
• YELLOW PAGE RECORDS
• Creating a Yellow Page
• Editable Yellow Page Fields
• Editable Non-Yellow Page Fields
• Adding New Yellow Page Fields
• REVIEW RECORDS
• Mandatory Fields
• Optional Fields
• Custom Fields
• 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
• Default Editor Assignment
• Creating an Editor
• Inheriting an Editor
• Deleting an Editor
• Moderating
• 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
• Grabbing Latest Reviews
• Grabbing Latest Items, Members, Suppliers
• Grabbing Average Ratings
• Tiling Options
• Suppressing HTML Tags
• 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
• Via The Browser
• Via The Command Line
• Via Cron Job
• Pulling Top Rated Things
• VERIFYING URLS
• Via The Browser
• Via The Command Line
• Via Cron Job
• 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
• What Is It?
• Documentation
• ALTERNATE ENVIRONMENTS
• mod_perl
• APPENDIX
• COLUMN PROPERTIES
• Column Properties
• Form Properties
• Key Properties