Load review form on external page

Question

By default the Magento URL for the review form is:

www.domain.com/(producturl)-reviews#review-form.

But in this page the review-form is a section in the reviews page.

I want to load the review-form in unique page with a URL something like:

www.domain.com/(producturl)-review-form.

This review-form will only be the form for this product.

How can I achieve that?

Answer 1

If this exact url structure is an requirement, you could solve this by implementing an own router.

the xml needed is something like

<config>
    <default>
    <web>
        <routers>
            <my_review>
                <area>frontend</area>
                <class>My_Review_Controller_Review_Router</class>
            </my_review>
        </routers>
    </web>
    </default>
</config>

this class needs to extend from Mage_Core_Controller_Varien_Router_Standard and overwrite the match method.

You can then parse the url, if it ends with -review-form you can extract the product part, and see if you have a product with this url-key or look in the rewrite table for it, not sure what is more stable. If it does not match, exit the function with a return. If it matches, I would suggest to an internal redirect to a route of your controller which is implemented as the others suggested.

The performance impact is nearly nothing, as you dont cause a database query for the initial -review-form test, and trough the internal redirect towards a normal controller you keep the additional complexity low.

Answer 2

Setting up exactly like that could involve a bit of messy looking coding, since you would need to override some controllers to interpret the url and direct the user to the correct controller action.

An alternative solution would be to setup a new front end controller eg a new ReviewController, which would implement an action such as writeAction which would take a url paramater.

This would give you something along the lines of domain.com/review/write/product/16

Then from that, you can setup a layout handle for that action which will include the relevent parts of the review form in the page layout and display the form and handle as normal from there.

Answer 3

Is it a hard requirement to have that URL structure?

A more approachable method would be to have a URL structure like:

http://yoursite.com/product-reviews/id/5

You could simply implement your own controller to resolve the product-reviews segment, and then load the id of the product to get a specific product.

In the event that you want a more semantic URL, possibly:

http://yoursite.com/product-reviews/id/purple-little-widget

You could try loading the product by name and some string manipulation. This would require a predictable and consistent product naming structure.

// how you manipulate the `id` param to match your product name is probably something like this
$name = uc_words(str_replace('-', ' ', $this->getRequest()->getParam('id')));
$product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load($name, 'name');

As @JohnCuthbert mentioned, using the URL like you described would require doing some awkward things. I'm thinking you would need to create your controller as the first example I listed, and then create URL rewrites for every product. I'd work, but I'm not really fond of that approach.

Answer 4

[Edited]

In this case,it will better idea to create custom route like Mage_Cms module.

Where depends on request path using Custom route match internally set the request path

• modules ->Mage_Review

• controller ->ProductController.php

• Action ->listAction.

Customer will see that like

http://www.domain.com/laptop1-review-form

but internally it hit to

http://www.domain.com/review/product/list/id/33661/

Here

`laptop1` is  `product url_path` value
 `33661` is `product id` 

 `-reviews-form` suffix for review url as you want

1. create custom font router for this custom module

<frontend> <routers> <productview> <!-- router identifire --> <use>standard</use> <args> <modules> <module>Dev_Productreview</module> <frontName>productreview</frontName> </modules> </args> </productview> </routers> </frontend>

Refernce

2. Add an observer on controller_front_init_routers

<controller_front_init_routers> <observers> <add_review_route> <!-- observer identifier --> <class>Dev_Productreview_Controller_Router</class> <method>initControllerRouters</method> </add_review_route> </observers> </controller_front_init_routers>

This observer add new routers

public function initControllerRouters($observer){
        $front=$observer->getEvent()->getFront();
        $front->addRouter('productreview',$this);
    }

3.add router class

. Now you need define router class at Controller folder not controllers folders

Where using match () check the request path match with your pattern (producturl)-review-form.. check string review-form exits in this request path() reference

$requestPathInfo=trim($request->getPathInfo(),'/'); 
    if(strpos($requestPathInfo,'-review-form')==false):
            return  false;
        endif;

4.Get product url from request path and save it

If request path contain review-form then then save require an variable then remove review-form from this string.

$producturl=str_replace('-review-form','',$requestPathInfo)

6. Check product exits in current store

Then using $producturl check this path for which product

$Rewrite=Mage::getModel('core/url_rewrite')
                    ->setStoreId(Mage::app()->getStore()->getId())
                    ->loadByRequestPath($identifier);

7. Set internal request Module,controller,Action name

If product is exits then module,controller,action for this request. which will be hit

Mage_Review Module ProductController at listAction

$request->setModuleName('review') 
            ->setControllerName('product')
            ->setActionName('list')
        ->setParam('id', $productid);

8. Finally now set request alias as producturl-review-form thus customer can only laptop1-review-form as review page.

Hope this will help you

you can get full module at Github

In this module i have make review like :

http://YOurmagentoInstanceurl/linen-blazer-585.html-review-form

whenerever product url is

http://YOurmagentoInstanceurl/linen-blazer-585.html

note: pattern match by string -review-form in request url

Answer 5

I believe all you want is to show only review section when clicked on review this product, even though the url remains same.

If that's the case then just go to- theme/layout/review.xml and find <review_product_list> and edit as you wish.

Basically you are removing few unwanted blocks.