Star Rating Module

[double]

I'm creating a star rating system for PW. I haven't found one. I would greatly appreciate your feedback.

Star Rating

Current Features:

• IP Checking: Prevents multiple votes from the same user.
• Displaying Stars and Rating Form: The star ratings are displayed on the pages with shortcode.
• Average Rating Calculation and Vote Counting: Calculates the average rating based on the votes.

Known Bug:

Currently the stars are not highlighted when a user hovers over them.

Plans:

• Improved Styling: Enhance the visual appeal and user interface.
• AJAX Support and Feedback: Implement AJAX functionality to allow submiting ratings without page reload. Add a feature to provide users with immediate feedback after submitting their rating
• Structured Data Schema Support: The ratings are picked up by search engines for rich snippets, enhancing SEO and visibility.
• Cookie Checking: To further prevent multiple votes.

Usage:

The database table star_ratings is created during the installation. When you uninstall it drops the table.

Add the following shortcode to the desired location within your template:

<!--StarRatingForm-->

StarRating.module.php

[bernhard]

@double thx for sharing! Have you seen 

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[Jan Romero]

Neato ? You may want to turn this into a FieldtypeMulti to let PW take care of some of the database paperwork and get selector support for free.

[double]

AJAX Voting: You can now submit ratings without refreshing the page.

Cookie Checking: It checks if a user has already voted by using cookies.

Hover Effect: A hover effect has been added. If a user has already voted, the hover effect will be disabled for them.

It needs some work b efore it’s ready for use on sites.

Update: I've updated the code to store the average rating, vote count and rating sum in a separate table. Now it retrieves the data directly from this table instead of recalculating each time

StarRating.module.php

StarRating.module.php

Edited July 27, 2024 by double