How to display voting widget by API for nodes?

There wasn't. In your version there's no way to do that, you should download vote up down 6.x-1.0-beta6.
Now you can display your widget easily calling vote_up_down_widget_form($node).
Feel free to open this issue again if you need additional help.

Hmm - I tried that and it doesn't work when I have the alternative +1 style enabled. The function vote_up_down_widget_form() seems to have a line $style = variable_get('vote_up_down_widget_style_node', 0) == 1 ? 'alt' : '';
BUT I think it should be '_alt' instead of 'alt' in order for the $return = theme("vote_up_down_widget$style", $node->nid, 'node'); to work.

It's the same way in -dev version, too.

EDIT: ok, duplicate of http://drupal.org/node/416308

Anyone know how to do this in 2.x?

+1

+1 for the 2.x version. I don't find an easy and quick equivalent of vote_up_down_widget_form($node)...

Shame, user karma only works with the 2.x version of this module, so I can't change.

solved via contemplate...

I also wonder how to move the widget beneath the node content for 6.x-2.x-dev. Have searched heavily, but found nothing.

<?php print $node->content['vud_node_widget_display']['#value'] ?>

Thanks, kervi

one problem solved - the widget showed up. But a couple of new appeared. I added this code to my node-review.tpl.php

1) It seems it is not possible to switch off the display of the main widget via admin interface. So now I have 2 widgets of course.
2) when I add a vote +1 is added up to the "main" widget, but the one I added still shows "0".

Any ideas?

ps. the vote count in the newly added widget adds up only upon page refresh.
pps. I did not find how to hide the widget on anonimous posts. Shall I use tpl.php file for this or is there a better way?

1. try to display everything as custom cck field: for example to print body: print $node->content['body']['#value']
2. look 1. :)

And how to display widget for comment?

Yep, vud widget is shown on node template as part of $content variable.

So, if you want to custom how and where to show the widget, you need to render manually each part of the standard node $content variable (fields, body, etc)

So probably you want to:

// save the rendered value of the widget
$vud_widget = $node->content['vud_node_widget_display']['#value'];
// avoid show it twice
unset($node->content['vud_node_widget_display']);

// render each value inside $content
print $node->content['body']['#value'] ;

// print vud widget, here is the place where we want to show it
print $vud_widget

// render more values inside $content

That works great for nodes, but there is no such simple fix in comments.

Can I please get a solution for comments? This is kind of important for my theme. An alternative (which would be better for nodes too) is if the "votes" hook in the vud theme could display the whole widget in the links.

please open a new issue for comments. I think I going to maintain a handbook or include this as part of the README.txt FAQ section since many people ask it.

This is a good fix for a simple content type, but what about when you have numerous content types and numerous fields. It could be quite consuming setting up the node templates. I like the idea of including in the $links.

I've posted a patch for 6.x-2.1 that allows you to choose whether to display the voting widget in comment body or links. See: #791082: Let separate voting widget from $comment->comment

Also, here is a patch (6.x-2.1) for nodes as well, which enables the user to choose whether to display the voting widget in node content or links.

This is a cleaner solution because it keeps logic out of the templates.

Yep +1 on $links

This is an updated patch, for both nodes and comments.

This patch creates the option for users to choose whether to display the voting widget in node/comment content or links. It also adds a new permission for vud_comments 'view votes on comments' that allows you to separately control the display of widget or vote total.

This is tested against the latest 6.x-2.x-dev snapshot. If it works it's ready to be ported and included in the 6.x-2.2 release.

Note: For separate control of the widget and votes display, your widget should be configured to use a separate template for votes and widget in your widget.inc file:

function vud_plain_vud_widgets() {
  return array(
    'title' => t('Plain'),
    'widget template' => 'widget',
    'votes template' => 'votes',
  );
}

SORRY disregard that last patch, it's backwards. I accidentally reversed the original and patched versions.

Here's the latest patch. To re-cap what this patch does:

• New permission "view votes on comments."
• New admin setting to control display of voting widget.
• Changed votes display admin setting to control display for the number of total votes.
• Options for the display of widget and votes total are "Content," "Links," and "None."

Tested on my 6.19 install. If others can test and confirm let's get this added into the next 6.x-2.x release. I'll also port it to 6.x-3.x if all goes well.

please do not hijack the issues, thanks for the patches, but this issue was a support request, not a feature one.

@dreamdust ehrm, please create a new issue. I would really like to see your patch in the module. Thanks.