Module for rating posts
Posted by Mensler
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Module for rating posts August 17, 2006 07:39PM |
As I had nothing to do in holiday, I wrote a simple module for rating posts.
It's not as comprehensive as discussed here, but it's a start and you're welcome to contribute your ideas :-)
For now, a post can be rated as positive or negative and an indicator shows the rating. It's written as a "self-stabilizing system". It takes note about the amount of rated messages and total ratings so it can calculate the average amount of ratings per message. The goal is, that a post with hundred positive ratings looks more positive (more green :-)) than a post with only one positive rating.
I'm still not sure if this works as planned, I'll keep an eye on this in my Forum.
Only registered users can rate a post once. They are not able to rate the first post in a thread or their own posts.
To install it, unzip the file in your mods folder, enable it in the admin.
If you disable the option to add the rating elements to the message body add the following code to your read.tpl somewhere you like after {LOOP MESSAGES}:
(in my forum it's inside a <div class="readSubject"></div>)
Here's an excerpt of my stylesheet where I format this part. Of course you have to change this to fit your needs:
Instead of the text links (+/-) for rating you can use the icons created by momo (
). Simply change the option on the settings page or the template.
If you'd like to show the indicator image on the list page (I think this makes only sense in threaded view), add the following code to list_threads.tpl and read_threads.tpl:
The additional table head column:
The column itself (somewhere after {LOOP ROWS}) in list_threads.tpl:
The column in read_threads.tpl (somewhere after {LOOP MESSAGES}):
If you'd like to show the indicator image on any user's profile, add the following code to profile.tpl:
You can see the indicator image in my forums on [www.webplain.de]. Hopefully it was used a little bit already, I installed it a few hours ago.
Try it out if you like :-)
Greetings,
Clemens
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Clemens Weiß
Webplain.de
Edited 12 time(s). Last edit at 12/04/2006 02:33AM by Mensler.
It's not as comprehensive as discussed here, but it's a start and you're welcome to contribute your ideas :-)
For now, a post can be rated as positive or negative and an indicator shows the rating. It's written as a "self-stabilizing system". It takes note about the amount of rated messages and total ratings so it can calculate the average amount of ratings per message. The goal is, that a post with hundred positive ratings looks more positive (more green :-)) than a post with only one positive rating.
I'm still not sure if this works as planned, I'll keep an eye on this in my Forum.
Only registered users can rate a post once. They are not able to rate the first post in a thread or their own posts.
To install it, unzip the file in your mods folder, enable it in the admin.
If you disable the option to add the rating elements to the message body add the following code to your read.tpl somewhere you like after {LOOP MESSAGES}:
{IF MESSAGES->mod_rating_img}
<p>
{IF MESSAGES->mod_rating_neg_url}
<a class="rateNegative" href="{MESSAGES->mod_rating_neg_url}" title="{LANG->mod_rating->RateNegative}">-</a>
{/IF}
{IF MESSAGES->mod_rating_pos_url}
<a class="ratePositive" href="{MESSAGES->mod_rating_pos_url}" title="{LANG->mod_rating->RatePositive}">+</a>
{/IF}
<img src="mods/rating/images/{MESSAGES->mod_rating_img}.png" alt="{MESSAGES->mod_rating_img_title}" title="{MESSAGES->mod_rating_img_title}" height="14" width="41" />
</p>
{/IF}
(in my forum it's inside a <div class="readSubject"></div>)
Here's an excerpt of my stylesheet where I format this part. Of course you have to change this to fit your needs:
.readSubject p {
margin: 0;
float: right;
line-height: 75%;
}
.readSubject p a {
text-decoration: none;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 85%;
}
.rateNegative {
border: 1px solid red;
padding: 0 0.5em;
color: red !important;
}
.ratePositive {
border: 1px solid green;
padding: 0 0.3em;
color: green !important;
}
.rateNegative:hover {
background-color: red;
color: black !important;
}
.ratePositive:hover {
background-color: green;
color: black !important;
}
Instead of the text links (+/-) for rating you can use the icons created by momo (
). Simply change the option on the settings page or the template.
If you'd like to show the indicator image on the list page (I think this makes only sense in threaded view), add the following code to list_threads.tpl and read_threads.tpl:
The additional table head column:
<th class="PhorumTableHeader" align="center">{LANG->mod_rating->Rating}</th>
The column itself (somewhere after {LOOP ROWS}) in list_threads.tpl:
<td class="PhorumTableRow<?php echo $rclass;?>" style="text-align: center">
{IF ROWS->mod_rating_img}
<img src="mods/rating/images/{ROWS->mod_rating_img}.png" alt="{ROWS->mod_rating_img_title}" title="{ROWS->mod_rating_img_title}" height="14" width="41" />
{/IF}
</td>
The column in read_threads.tpl (somewhere after {LOOP MESSAGES}):
<td class="PhorumTableRow<?php echo $rclass;?>" style="text-align: center">
{IF MESSAGES->mod_rating_img}
<img src="mods/rating/images/{MESSAGES->mod_rating_img}.png" alt="{MESSAGES->mod_rating_img_title}" title="{MESSAGES->mod_rating_img_title}" height="14" width="41" />
{/IF}
</td>
If you'd like to show the indicator image on any user's profile, add the following code to profile.tpl:
{IF PROFILE->mod_rating_img}
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap">{LANG->mod_rating->UserRating}: </td>
<td><img src="mods/rating/images/{PROFILE->mod_rating_img}.png" alt="{PROFILE->mod_rating_img_title}" title="{PROFILE->mod_rating_img_title}" /></td>
</tr>
{/IF}
You can see the indicator image in my forums on [www.webplain.de]. Hopefully it was used a little bit already, I installed it a few hours ago.
Try it out if you like :-)
Greetings,
Clemens
--
Clemens Weiß
Webplain.de
Edited 12 time(s). Last edit at 12/04/2006 02:33AM by Mensler.
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August 18, 2006 07:10AM |
Thanks for taking this one of my list! It's one of the features that I had planned for my own website :-)
One idea (since I am very much in favour of real drop-in mods that do not need changes in templates at all): put the voting buttons at the bottom of the message body using the format hook. The stylesheet could go in {HEAD_DATA}. There could be an option in the settings to override this behaviour in case the webmaster wants to put it in the templates manually (this is what I did with the Forum Jumpmenu module, so maybe peek at that one to see what I mean). For most users of the mod, the defaults are probably good enough to go with.
If you don't want to put this in the mod this way, then it's no problem of course. I'll probably get around to doing this myself once I start using it.
Maurice Makaay
Phorum Development Team
my blog 
linkedin profile 
secret sauce
One idea (since I am very much in favour of real drop-in mods that do not need changes in templates at all): put the voting buttons at the bottom of the message body using the format hook. The stylesheet could go in {HEAD_DATA}. There could be an option in the settings to override this behaviour in case the webmaster wants to put it in the templates manually (this is what I did with the Forum Jumpmenu module, so maybe peek at that one to see what I mean). For most users of the mod, the defaults are probably good enough to go with.
If you don't want to put this in the mod this way, then it's no problem of course. I'll probably get around to doing this myself once I start using it.
Maurice Makaay
Phorum Development Team
my blog linkedin profile secret sauce
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