At speakoutwireless.ca, I’ve implemented a feedback workflow into our “phone exchange” forum. Basically, it’s for buyers and sellers to report back on transactions, giving people a better idea of the trustworthiness of others.
In the phone exchange forum, all registered members have a “View feedback” link under their name. Also, if you are logged in, you will see “Leave feedback” links as well.
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Any registered member (giver) will be able to leave feedback for any other registered member (receiver), relating to any topic in the phone exchange forum in which the receiver has posted.
The code isn’t quite ready for public release yet, because it still has a few hard-coded settings specific to my site. However, here’s an outline of the tweaks:
– modified sf-control.php to accept ?feedbackprofile and ?feedback parameters.
– database table to hold feedback items
– a plugin that simply overrides the generation of the user sidebar
– two new functions added to forum/problem-with-post-edit-buttonooks/sf-hook-template.php to handle the feedback profile and feedback form pages
In total, this took only a few hours for the barebones functionality, which is a testament to Simple:Press. Thanks to Andy and Steve for making such a great piece of software!
