Customer Reviews, Photos and Videos?

[phoenixology]

Hi,

I'm at the process of deciding whether i should buy Actinic 8 or not. So i have the trial here to experiment with.

Got a question as how i can add a feature to my product pages?

I want to be able to add a part on the product page where customers can submit photos, review and videos of their products at home. On the page will display the 5 latest of each at the bottom of the page.

See this competitors site for an example on the bottom of their page: http://www.firebox.com/product/1201?src_t=t20

Please could someone confirm this and explain how i could do it?

Thanks

[NormanRouxel]

This can be done but it's not part of Actinic. You'd have to add some ASP or PHP code to your product layouts to implement this. This will require significant skill and effort.

If you look at http://www.firebox.com/index.html?di...n&action=about you'll see that it's a multi-million pound turnover company with 24 staff - many of them presumably IT specialists. They probably spent quite a lot on developing their site.

[Duncan Rounding]

Welcome Tim.
On having just a quick look at the referenced site it seems that this is achieved purely with javascript to upload the images and videos. I'm not sure how the page is generated mind.

To reproduce this in Actinic would require the same, javascript to upload the images and video, and either a hard coded fragment to contain the images and videos on the page or perhaps some clever php to generate the images and video source on the page on the fly. I would expect you would not want to have the image or video immediately viewable on the site though before checking it's relevance.

[RuralWeb]

Looking at the process they use to get the video etc it should be possible to do this with V8. All they do is provide an email link to attach the video to and they then build it into the site. In V8 you could do this using a mix of Dreamweaver and V8 to create the html code to insert into a fragment.

[phoenixology]

How would it be possible to add php to an actinic page?

All actinic pages end in .html am i right?

[NormanRouxel]

How would it be possible to add php to an actinic page?

You can overide the Actinic generated page name to one of your choosing, including making them end in .php.

You would also want to turn off Settings / Search ettings / Results / Highlight Located Text as with this set any pages accessed via the Search Results list pass through a Perl script on the way out of your server, making them very difficult to process with PHP.