Using simplevote on comments?

I was actually trying something very similar. I tried to do use hook_comment but that is only called when a comment is being created or changed, not viewed.

It sounds like I am trying to do something a bit different, though. I want people to be able to vote in the comments on the node itself, as in Amazon.com.

I have tried to create a new templete (using phptemplate), such as comment-simplevote.tpl.php.

I inserted a line to call the voting function.

 print theme('simplevote_widget', $nid);

It is calling the widget, but it is not passing the node id, so I am not getting the right url address to register the vote.

I don't know if this would help you. Perhaps some good samaritan might come along and help us both.

Near Raleigh, NC, USA

thanks for the help on this. i had been wandering in the dark, learning as i went, but i still missed a couple of key items. below is a hack just for me so i changed some stuff to disconfuse me, but it may help another newbie like me put up a x.x out of 5 rating with a count of the number of votes in brackets.

i'm still working on a way to show the vote AND some how indicate they haven't voted yet, either in one control or using two a la the voting module that uses flash.

here's the hack...i know zero php! sorry!

thanks again to all.

function theme_simplevote_widget($cid, $type) {
  // Get the current vote. It should come in as a percentage,
  $vote = votingapi_get_voting_result($type, $cid, 'percent', 'vote', 'average');
  
  if ($vote) {
    $stars = round($vote->value);
  }
  else {
    $stars = 0;
  }
  $score = number_format(round($stars / 20, 1), 1, '.', '');

  $count = votingapi_get_voting_result($type, $cid, 'percent', 'vote', 'count');
  $votes = $count->value;
  $output = '<div class="simplevote_widget">' . $score . ' [' . round($votes) . ']';

  for ($i = 20; $i <= 100; $i += 20) {
    $output .= theme('simplevote_icon', $type, $cid, $i, $stars >= $i);
  }
  $output .= '</div>';
  return $output;
}

hey thanks again to all for this thread. i don't know if this is of use to anyone or if it's any faster or better, but i made a mod and thought i'd share it.

my little star graphics are 14x14, not whatever the little stars were originally, so that explains some of the difference in numbers.

anyway, i made a single graphic called starsemptyfullhover.png that had a grey then a green then a magenta star object, representing empty, full and hover stars. this was instead of two graphics in the original module. my graphic is 42x14 WxH. i use code below to build the vote display.

i'm not knocking anything about the original and i can't say this is any better. i wondered if this idea might be ajaxable somehow. i don't know a thing about it. i'll learn. i've studied some of the mediumvote code but it's crypto to me.

another thought came to mind about how to represent partial star objects. i wondered if it might work to make a 140x14 with five green (full) stars on the left and five grey (empty) stars on the right. it seems one could grab as many pixel columns from the left as needed to get green wheels, then grab 70 minus that many pixel columns from the far right for the empty ones, abutting the two. at this point i think i might go with 10x10 stars for a 100x10 image. just a thought, and that leaves out hovering and some other issues. a single hover star, an eleventh star, could fit in between the left and right dual pairs of five if there was benefit in doing this with one graphic.

the same partial pixel grab should be possible even in the current iterative routine perhaps, as well. in other words, if the score is 3.5, perhaps on the fourth pass one could display 7 leftmost full pixel columns, then do 7 rightmost grey pixel columns (using my 14x14 setup as an example), then finish with empty stars if needed.

if i follow up on any of these i'll post results.

in the present state, i wonder if there's a way to make hover tooltip text that says either "please vote" or "you may change your vote of x.x" or whatever. i will learn these things.

here's the simplevote.css code such as i'm able to write it. i'm assuming those last two could be expressed more compactly as well, but i'm not very aware on php, css, mysql. yet.

.simplevote_widget {
  float:left;
  padding:1px;
  margin:1px;
  border:0px;
}

.vote-on, .vote-off {
  float:left;
  width:14px;
  height:14px;
  border:0px white solid;
  text-decoration: none;
}

.vote-on {
  background: url(staremptyfullhover.png) no-repeat -14px 0px;
}

.vote-off {
  background: url(staremptyfullhover.png) no-repeat -0px 0px;
}

a.vote-on:hover {
  background: url(staremptyfullhover.png) no-repeat -28px 0px;
}

a.vote-off:hover {
  background: url(staremptyfullhover.png) no-repeat -28px 0px;
}

i haven't tested but i assume from looking at some of the css above that i could replace the last two hovers with...

a.vote-on:hover, a.vote-off:hover {
  background: url(staremptyfullhover.png) no-repeat -28px 0px;
}

thanks again.

is it possible in Simplevote to allow anonymous user to vote?