Greetings!

My company has developed a 5-star rating widget that we think we'd like to share with the Drupal community. We started with vote_up_down.module and reworked it to use our 5 star system. You can see it in action at www.ustudio.com. (You must be logged in to actually vote...feel free to register to check it out.)

It wasn't written in such a way to keep the old vote-up-down widget at all, so it might make more sense to release it as a seperate module, but I thought I'd post here first to get ball rolling. Ultimately it seems like a general purpose voting widget would be great, allowing the users to select up/down vs. 5 stars vs. whatever else.

Ideas?

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datura-1 commented
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OK I finally got a chance to post these files.

Please realize that this is not ready for distribution, as it is basically a recoded vote_up_down.module.

At the very least it should have a different module name so that it can coexist with the original vote_up_down module; at best the two could be merged to allow voting up/down style or stars rating style.

Also, in your node template you'll likely want to wrap the widget like so:

<div class="controls">
<?php print $vote_up_down_widget ?>
</div>

and use the following css:

.main-content div.controls {
    float: right;
    margin-left: 3px;
    padding: 0;
    cursor: default;
}

Well that's a start anyway! Let me know if you try it and have problems.

Kudos to Andy (no drupal.org account yet) for doing the bulk of the work on this!

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frjo commented

Interesting example but it's not code I easily can incorporate in to this project.

What I have been thinking about is to make the voting widget more modular, making it easier to add new ones.

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senpai commented
Status: Active » Fixed

Marking this as fixed, since it won't be incorporated into vote-up_down, and if the community wants it, it can be checked into CVS as it's own project.

Interesting thoughts in this module though.

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Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.