Generating Fake Reviews for OpenCart

The "Product Reviews Generator" module is a simple tool for the OpenCart admin panel that helps you quickly and easily add reviews to selected products. This is useful for populating product cards with content before launching a store, testing a template, or migrating a catalog.

Purpose of the module

You select products, insert a list of review texts and a list of customer names, specify a date range and rating, and the module automatically creates records in the database (the review table) with a random distribution of dates.

Key Features

• Select products using auto-completion by name and a list of selected items.
• Batch adding of reviews: each review on a new line.
• Batch list of names: each name on a new line (you can specify one name for all, for example, "Guest").
• Date range "from/to" - the module automatically assigns a random date to each added review.
• Rating for reviews (1-5).
• The status of reviews after adding: enabled or disabled.
• A button for substituting basic templates for names and review texts.

What data is created

• product_id, author, text
• rating, status
• date_added and date_modified (same, random in range)
• customer_id = 0

How to apply in practice

1. Add the required products to the list.
2. Insert review texts and names.
3. Set dates, select rating and status.
4. Click "Generate reviews" to receive a message with the number of reviews added.

Recommendation: If there are more products than there are rows in the lists, the module carefully loops the names and texts to fill all selected positions without errors.