DIY Tripadvisor

[Windy]

As i also run a listing site with lodges on our park on it it occurred to me that it might be worth out tripadvisoring tripadvisor and adding a review facility to it.

Normally i can hunt down some free PHP or JS to do stuff I want but I've drawn a blank here. Does anyone have any ideas?

[e-richard]

I've actually written my own review page (twice now), and I think with some tidy up it could be installed elsewhere (requires a few lines of code change and manually set up a mySQL database):

BUT:
The first time I used it, was for my daughter's wedding pages (http://tessajay.co.uk/guestbook.php). This only lasted 1 month before it was just overtaken by spammers adding junk content. I did not have any CAPTCHA, and don't really know if that would help ?

The second one (PIMS reviews) is behind a login, so that works fine, and you can see the results at http://www.holidayrentalmanagement.com/reviews.php

I wonder if there is a business opportunity here?

The questions are:
What sort of controls do you need to verify reviews?
Is a hosted solution desirable ?
Hasn't someone else already done this (hosted solution)? (vague memories of a discussion on LMH some time ago)

[Windy]

Interesting Richard

Actually something like your Pims review page with the

the facility for a user to join and login , or a good captcha (reduce spammers)
add a review to one of a limited list of properties
display reviews for a particular property on it's page
display all reviews together
filter reviews before publishing

would be great.

[e-richard]

Hasn't someone else already done this (hosted solution)? (vague memories of a discussion on LMH some time ago)

Found it: Vouch For This

waddyathink ?

[Windy]

Thx Richard - will take a look and get back