Allow fivestar rating in a block [#150679]

I wanted fivestar in a block instead of in the content of a node, so I added this function to my copy. It seems to work, but I'm not a very advanced Drupal developer right now, so a sanity check would be a good idea. I stole the form of this from community_tags, which can be inline or in a block, so it seemed like a good place to start.

function fivestar_block($op = 'list', $delta = 0, $edit = array()) {
  global $user;
  switch ($op) {
    case 'list':
      $block[0]['info'] = t('Fivestar: Rate This');
      return $block;

    case 'view':
      if (user_access('access content') && user_access('rate content')) {
        if (arg(0) == 'node' && is_numeric(arg(1)) && (arg(2) == '' || arg(2) == 'view')) {
          $node = node_load(arg(1));
          
          $block['subject'] = t('Rate This');
          $block['content'] = fivestar_widget_form($node);
          return $block;
        }
      }
      
      break;
  }
}

Comment	File	Size	Author
#2	fivestar_0.patch	1.04 KB	chellman

Comments

Comment #1

chellman commented 11 June 2007 at 16:16

Better version of the same thing, which also validates whether the content type supports voting.

function fivestar_block($op = 'list', $delta = 0, $edit = array()) {
  global $user;
  switch ($op) {
    case 'list':
      $blocks[0]['info'] = t('Fivestar: Rate This');
      return $blocks;

    case 'view':
      if (user_access('access content') && user_access('rate content')) {
        if (arg(0) == 'node' && is_numeric(arg(1)) && (arg(2) == '' || arg(2) == 'view')) {
          $node = node_load(arg(1));
          
          if (_fivestar_validate_target('node', $node->nid)) {
			  $block['subject'] = t('Rate This');
			  $block['content'] = fivestar_widget_form($node);
          }
          
          return $block;
        }
      }
      
      break;
  }
}

Comment #2

chellman commented 7 July 2007 at 03:52

Title:	Fivestar in a block (with patch!)	» This time the patch is really a patch
Version:	5.x-1.5	» 5.x-1.7

Status	File	Size
new	fivestar_0.patch	1.04 KB

It's not a huge deal to add this into each of the releases, but maybe making a proper patch out of this will get some more attention. Even the kind of attention where someone says "come on, this is a lame patch, you can do better". I think having fivestar rating capability in a block is useful, so I'm keeping at it.

This patch is against version 1.7.