This one was completely off the cuff, but it’s starting to shape up. Needs some beta testing. It’s your basic ratings module- find it there, rate it while you’re visiting (I need numbers to check the stats)- comments here. That site isn’t all that ‘live’ yet.
Requires membership to download (figure might as well test that while I’m at it)- but it’s automatic and painless, so no worries.
Actually- it requires membership to rate anything too, now that I think about it.
Well- in theory It’s pretty simple, so no reason it shouldn’t. But I don’t have a gallery up on my test site, so some intrepid soul will have to go there first.
I KNOW the main stats tag won’t show for the gallery yet- cause I hard coded it. Because I got tired. And because I’m halfway thinking of adding a second table to hold summary stats.
But- the form SHOULD show on a gallery page- and it should submit and then show the rating and average rating on the gallery page itself. So- it should. I’d like it to work with about anything- linklist, members- pretty much anything that has a unique id ought to be ‘rateable’ in theory. Of course- displaying the rating on the member templates- I don’t know. But everything else uses the basic template engine and an id in the url- so should be doable.
Need to think on how to display ave. rating on multi-entry pages. That will be tricky. But the rest is all doable. If not necessarily done.
oooh rating links, now that is cool. I actually have no personal need for this but if no one steps up to test it in the gallery by this weekend, I’ll throw it in there and see how it goes. =)
Hey- the illustration is a squiggle. I pretty much hate the design of the site- but not enough to mess with it at the moment. Maybe I’ll trade some php help to somebody with design skills- because it’s just plain ugly.
The rating module, on the other hand, is starting to come along. You want images? Try this out.. It’s buggy as hell, degrades with no grace what so ever, and as an added bonus, you can’t actually rate an id with a rate that equals the id number. I have no idea what bit of variable confusion I managed that resulted in that.
Gotta figure out how to tweak it out a lot- keep it flexible yet simple. But for my first shot at ajax, it ain’t bad.
And a tip of the hat to this css tutorial- it’s where I got the dynamic css from.
(Note- the download is still the old one. I have to clean up the variable clash and figure out how to make it accessible to non-js browsers. Once that’s done, I’ll update.) Oh- and feel free to rate anything- I keep truncating the table in testing, so nothing that goes in right now is going to stick.
Yea- it’s a fun module. Kind of exploded from the original intent, but the basics are simple so it gives me a lot of room to play with the tweaks. Like the javascript. I don’t do js much, but it’s starting to make a little more sense to me. However, once browser issues start cropping up like crazy, I’m sure I’ll hate it again.
And hey- glad my squiggle looks like something. Ghuh- I should just do the site in pure text, black borders, fixed single column- and nothing else.
And hey- glad my squiggle looks like something. Ghuh- I should just do the site in pure text, black borders, fixed single column- and nothing else.
Not a bad idea actually. I had a site like yours up once. I used it as a a place to show off things I have built, and to host tech support articles that I have written. It was black and white, and the only CSS I used was to add a navigation list on the side. I thought it amusing to be running such a bland site off a great system like Expression Engine.
Nice module. i installed it and it works a treat. I don’t have commenting turned on for the weblog I’m using so I use the {exp:ez_rate:form} tag and not the extension.
The {exp:ez_rate:form} tag is used on a comment template.
The {exp:ez_rate:stats} tag is using on the index and category template but doesn’t want to play ball and I am getting a blank display from it?
Any ideas. Congrats on a nice module. My advice would be to not get overly complicated. Maybe 2 versions simple and advanced with advanced tied into the commenting etc.
I’ve been messing with the star rating samples for the past two days with no luck. One example required query strings, so no go with EE. The other, an AJAX-based version, crapped out connecting to the db every time. I see you’ve appropriate some of that for your module. How did you integrate it? All I get with your module is an empty field, thought it would generate the stars as on your site when you say, ‘You end up with a rating form that looks like the one on this page’.
Ah- the star one isn’t up for download yet. And yea, it pretty much works completely differently than the downloadable version- ajax based, uses gets and, er- mini-templates as that was the only way I could figure out how to swap out the data dynamically.
I’ve got to finish off a couple of other projects before I can finish cleaning it up for download, though.
Could this rating module be adapted to work like digg.com? I’d like to allow my readers to “digg” an article and then have the most digged articles appear on my homepage. Or is there another module that would be more appropriate for my objective? ee poll perhaps?
I’m currently looking at using your EZ Rate extension for adding Amazon-like star ratings to registered users comments. The extension looks pretty straightforward, but what would be the variable to pull out the user’s rating (as a digit), so I can then replace them with the stars?
It’s pretty simple, so no reason it shouldn’t. But I don’t have a gallery up on my test site, so some intrepid soul will have to go there first.
It is a cable connected to LED’s or something? 
