Max reviews displayed per product limited in frontend

[lindapowers]

Hello

Where does VirtueMart limit the reviews to 10 displayed???

We have products with many more reviews in the backend but the frontend only shows 10 and I have no clue where the limit comes from.

Is this limited by the core? in what file please?

Regards

VM 3.0.12 joomla 3.4.8

[Jörgen]

Hello

I found this in the templates/hera_j3_vm3/html/com_virtuemart/productdetails/default_reviews.php

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$ratingsShow = VmConfig::get( 'vm_num_ratings_show', 3 ); // TODO add  vm_num_ratings_show in vmConfig


Try to add vm_num_ratings_show in vmconfig. In this case default seems to be three.

regards

Jörgen @ Kreativ Fotografi

[lindapowers]

Hello

I found this in the templates/hera_j3_vm3/html/com_virtuemart/productdetails/default_reviews.php

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$ratingsShow = VmConfig::get( 'vm_num_ratings_show', 3 ); // TODO add  vm_num_ratings_show in vmConfig


Try to add vm_num_ratings_show in vmconfig. In this case default seems to be three.

regards

Jörgen @ Kreativ Fotografi

Thanks, Im looking at same file, and already changed:

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$showall = vRequest::getBool( 'showall', FALSE );
to

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$showall = vRequest::getBool( 'showall', TRUE );


Which directly removes the initial limit of 3 and gest rid of the "more reviews" link, I tried changing the number of the code you suggested but doesn't seem to affect in the global number of reviews shown.

I tested in default beez template and it limits reviews displayed to 10 also so seems to come directly from VM... but where?

Regards

[Jörgen]

Hello

You are correct, I can´t see any limitation in the template file. I checked the model that load the ratings:

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administrator/components/com_virtuemart/models/ratings.php

But I can´t say that I can see any limitation there either. Are You sure You have more than 10 published reviews ?

regards

Jörgen @ Kreativ Fotografi

[lindapowers]

Yes, take a look

http://www.comenaranjas.com/en/shop/oranges/table-oranges-kg-detail.html

And another one

http://www.comenaranjas.com/en/shop/oranges/juice-oranges-kg-detail.html

In the backend I have nearly 30 reviews for one of them and like 20 for the other one.

A bit strange that both show exactly 10 no?

I even checked in the database table for vm config but don't see any limit there either.

Regards

[Jörgen]

Hello again

This is strange, I have now added new entries into the database, duplicating an already entered review and I can see a total of 11 entries. Don´t see any limit of 10. You have no other thing affecting this. I noticed the review module. Is it possible this is interfering with Your other reviews ? Try unpublishing this module and test again. Don´t forget to clear cache.

regards

Jörgen @ Kreativ Fotografi

[lindapowers]

Thanks, I tried unpublishing the module but without effect.

I can't think of anything that could affect the max reviews shown per product... an X-file seems, if you tell me you can show more than 10.

Strange thing is that rich snippets in google actually read all the reviews but in the page only 10 are displayed per product max hmmmm.

Regards

[GJC Web Design]

the ratings query uses the stock vm query function

$this->exeSortSearchListQuery(0,' r.*,pr.`product_name` ',$tables,$whereString,'',$this->_getOrdering());

the last parameter isn't passed

public function exeSortSearchListQuery($object, $select, $joinedTables, $whereString = '', $groupBy = '', $orderBy = '', $filter_order_Dir = '', $nbrReturnProducts = false )

so it takes it from your pagination setting

if($nbrReturnProducts){
         $limitStart = 0;
         $limit = $nbrReturnProducts;
         $this->_withCount = false;
      } else if($this->_noLimit){
         $this->_withCount = false;
         $limitStart = 0;
         $limit = 0;
      } else {
         $limits = $this->setPaginationLimits();
         $limitStart = $limits[0];
         $limit = $limits[1];
      }

assume that's 20?

[lindapowers]

Hi GJC

Thanks! You found it, we had 10 set in frontend default items per view



Increasing that number increases the reviews shown,

Regards

[GJC Web Design]

I guess a separate config would be nice for this.....

in config

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vm_num_ratings_show=xx

components\com_virtuemart\views\productdetails\view.html.php ~ line 234

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$this->rating_reviews = $ratingModel->getReviews($product->virtuemart_product_id, 0, VmConfig::get( 'vm_num_ratings_show', 10));


administrator\components\com_virtuemart\models\ratings.php ~ 144

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function getReviews($virtuemart_product_id, $virtuemart_vendor_id = 0, $num_ratings){

administrator\components\com_virtuemart\models\ratings.php ~ 168

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$reviews[$hash] = $this->exeSortSearchListQuery(0,$select,$tables,$whereString,'',$this->_getOrdering(), $num_ratings);


[Milbo]

Thank you,

added VmConfig::get( 'vm_num_ratings_show', 3 ) to getReviews function

[lindapowers]

Thank you,

added VmConfig::get( 'vm_num_ratings_show', 3 ) to getReviews function

Hello I just installed 3.0.14 but I can't find an option in the backend to set the max reviews shown.

Is there a new setting for this somwhere?

Regards

[Milbo]

is a hidden one atm

[lindapowers]

is a hidden one atm

Thanks, I tried to add:

vm_num_ratings_show=xx

In virtuemart.cfg but didnt work for me,

Regards

[Studio 42]

@lindapowers : Have you save the config ?