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[garryn]

This is an auto-generated support/comment thread for CSS Star Rating.

Use this forum to post any comments about this addition or any questions you have regarding its use.

Brief Description:
This snippet lets visitors to your site vote on your web articles using a completely CSS based star rating.

[Marschant]

I seem to be getting a url error when using this with friendly urls and friendly paths enabled:

an example of the url being generated by the makeurl function:

Code:

http://localhost/development/swellguys.co.za/new.html?starvote=2&pid=263

which should be:

Code:

http://localhost/development/swellguys.co.za/dev/new.html?starvote=2&pid=263

[garryn]

Hi Marschant,

If you substitute any occurrences of $modx->documentObject['alias'] in the makeUrl calls with an empty string ('') then that should solve the issue.

Thanks for the bug report ... any problems then let me know. I will get the main package updated tomorrow with this fix.

[Marschant]

Confirmed, did this last night and it worked, might I suggest checking the "use friendly alias path" settings and outputing different url strings based on that?

[garryn]

No need ... removing the alias value will allow it to be used for all combinations of friendly url settings.

[Deep]

Hi,
First of all, thanks for developing such a cool snippet.

I have facing one strange problem with it, I added the star_rating with onevote parameter but it still allows me to vote more than one time i.e. it counts the 2nd vote...

I have used following parameters:

[!star_rating? &onevote &docID!]

I also tried using: [!star_rating? &useSession &docID!]

but none of them helped me.

Please suggest the solution.

Thanks
Deep

[davidm]

I never used Start Rating, but usually snippet calls need a value assigned to the parameter... I guess you're still learning MODx there. Check out the doc, it helps getting through the basics

If you look at the snippet page, you'll see that the &onevote parameter seems to be a boolean : i.e can only be either set to true or false &onevote=`1` or &onevote=`true` I guess. When the parameter is set to true, it seems the snippet uses cookies to remember the vote (thus, not allow multiple votes).

The &docID parameter is optionnal, only if you need to retrieve the star rating from another document. Then you should use it like this &docID=`5` if the document you want to use has the ID : 5 (see in the document tree the number in parentheses).

I'll let those who actually used the snippet get into more detail.
Hope it helps

[Deep]

oh my bad, you were right. I missed the ='1'

Thanks
Deep

[davidm]

Glad I could help

[garryn]

lol, I just typed out almost to the word what David said in his post - beat me to the posting though

It doesn't matter what value the &useSession and &onevote parameters are given, the fact they are specified in the snippet call will trigger the relevant functionality.

The &docID parameter is, as David mentioned, for remote page voting and was something that was used in the designing of the MODx Repository. I know that somebody did once mention a Ditto/Star Rating combo but I'm not sure if they ever got anywhere with it ...

Glad you got it working Deep!

 

[heliotrope]

Hi,

First of all, thx for this great addition.

Is there anyway to allow votes from List view build with ditto (star_rating is called from the ditto tpl chunk).
For now, if you vote for an item in the list, it will be counted several times (equal to &summarize parameter in ditto call)

Any clue ?

thx :-)

[garryn]

Hi heliotrope, it should work okay with Ditto listings as it should unset all the vote values on the first pass of the update routine. I'm not really sure why that isn't the case.

Could you post your Ditto tpl chunk that you're using and I'll try and run a few tests on the snippet.

Cheers, Garry

[heliotrope]

Hi garryn,

thx for replying.

Here are my elements

ditto tpl:(starRating call inside)

Code:

<div class="photoVig">
<h4><a href="[~[+id+]~]">[+title+]</a></h4>
<a href="[~[+id+]~]">[+tvthumbImg+]</a>
<p>
[+date+]
[[StarRating? &docID=[+id+] &useSession=1 &onevote=1 ]]
[+starRating+]
[+totalVotes+]
</p>
</div>

ditto snippet call:

Code:

[!Ditto? &startID=`[*id*]` &summarize=9 &paginate=1 &tpl=`photolist` &debug=0 &datetype=createdon &dateFormat=`%a-%e-%b` &multiLevel=1 &mode=`production` &filter=`parent,[*id*],=|isfolder,0,=` &hiddenTVs=`thumbImg` !]

Thx for your help

:-)

[garryn]

Well, I tried the Ditto call above, and apart having to remove the Ditto filter settings (couldn't get them to work for some reason) the CSS Star Rating worked as it should.

I will try on a different setup but won't be able to do it until tomorrow evening now. If anybody else wants to give it a blast as well to see if it works then it would be appreciated.

[heliotrope]

I was trying on local environment (OSX/Apache).
Everything works fine on a remote server.

:-)


EDIT:
The snippet has to be called cached from the ditto chunk to work. But you have to disallow vote from the list view or else it will be added as many times as you &summarize param in ditto call.