Coming from another thread, but did everyone know that the tags link on the Wiki is dead?

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The requested URL /downloads/article/ez_rate/ was not found on this server.
Apache/2.0.52 (Red Hat) Server at media-cow.com Port 80

Going to the root web yields:

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(I’ve marked the site as being currently offline in the wiki)

Some of the pMachineHosting sites are being moved this weekend. I only know this because one of the women I read mentioned it in her blog.

Sue Crocker - 04 November 2006 12:37 AM

Some of the pMachineHosting sites are being moved this weekend. I only know this because one of the women I read mentioned it in her blog.

Ah - that explains alot. Thanks greatly - most of the site is there but graphics break on some areas (the License page) and I can’t find a way to register to download the extension at all.

I’ll give it a day or two and see what happens. Thanks again.

Hey, this looks good. I am trying Solspace rating mod, but an issue is that anyone can rate something as much as they like, click away 100 times or more. Does this allow people to rate an entry only once, like the voting? I’m just too frustrated to install and try it to learn, so maybe someone can tell me, then I’ll know to jump in when it’s ready!

Thanks! Great job Robin!

This looks great, based on what I’ve read - but I can’t download it as the link is still broken.  Any ideas when it’ll be available - I’m itching to give it a try on a new project!

Cheers

Andy

Link should work now- I was actually in the midst of a move to pmh, and then I forgot to change my paths, so downloads were broken for another week.

I honestly don’t remember what this module does- it’s really simple.  Plays off of the comment form, if I recall correctly.  I need to go through it and polish it up, as I get enough hits on it to warrant it. 

There’s another ajax version which also needs polishing and releasing- but I think the simple one is actually better.

Anyhoo- a cleaner, revised version of this on is on the ‘to do’ list- about the 4th thing down on the list.  But whatever is up now works as advertised.

Fantastic - thanks for fixing that.  Downloaded, will give it a try out tomorrow.

First of all: Thanks for this nice module, exactly what I was looking for!

I have a question, though - where does the wording come from? I need to translate it to german and couldn’t find the phrases anywhere in the files.

chronistin - 21 December 2006 09:34 PM

I have a question, though - where does the wording come from? I need to translate it to german and couldn’t find the phrases anywhere in the files.

Do you look for the strings in lang.ez_rate.php?

[s]That’s the first place I looked - but it contains only the text used in the backend.[/s]

Please disregard. I was just being stupid.

I have to give a quote for integrating a rating system into a site I just recently finished. Well, now it might be time for me to dust off the ol’ Star Rating Script, update it with many of the numerous suggestions for security, etc, found on that page, and adapt it for EE. Time to eat my own dogfood, in other words. Dang thing has had enough downloads, but I’ve never actually used it on a site, myself!

I’ve just been looking into how easy it would be to integrate a rating script with EE. Looks like both Ryan and Robin are working towards the same thing with a similar starting point. (Have y’all seen the second tutorial on the komodo’s site? Adds nice fraction star ratings and a 3rd rollover state (http://komodomedia.com/blog/index.php/2006/01/09/css-star-rating-part-deux/) )

Maybe a collaboration is in order?

Robin - hope you see this thread.

I’m using EZ Rate for a client’s ridiculous demands - working very well.

Problem is, I need to pass values between -1 to 1 for their ratings calculations. So, ratings can be -1, -0.6, 0, 0.1, 0.5 etc… I’m entering these via an awful Ajax-y slider which works well, and all teh averages work out perfectly if you add positive ratings.

However, it doesn’t seem to like my negative ratings.

For example, if I starty a new article with a rating of 0, and then rate it ‘1’, I get an average of ‘1’. Add another rating of ‘1’ and my average remains at ‘1’ of course.

So, my first problem is: How can I simply add or subtract the ratings? If four people rate it an item with ‘1’ I want them all to be added up, so the rating is ‘4’, not an average of ‘1’.

Second problem: How can a rating of ‘-1’ or ‘-0.3’ be subtracted from the rating. Can negative values not be used?

Sorry about this. Awful client I’m afraid…

Scrap that. Not using negatives any more. But is it possible for me to add each rating rather than create an average?

So, if two people rate as ‘5’, the rating would be ‘10’.

Edit: Um, sorry about this. I do need to pass negative values as ratings. Oh I hate this. If I set up a new item and it is ‘0’, I then try to add a rating of ‘-5’ but the average stays at 0. Eek.

I just need to add and subtract ratings from an ongoing total.

Edit again: If I’ve rated an item as ‘-5” and the avearge shows as ‘0’, but then rate it again as ‘5’, the average is correct: ‘2.5’, so is it just a case of the stats tags not showing the right value when the average is less than zero?

mdesign,

You rating script rocks.  If you are able to adapt it to EE, I will gladly be your first customer…

I second that,
if I had the skills to do it myself, I would.

Also looking at this for a rating system on a current project… don’t know if it’s still of interest to Erskine, but negative rating values could be set by modifying the table schema in the Module’s Control Panel file.

It’s set up to store the rating as an unsigned integer, so changing it to a signed value would preserve the negative values.

You’d just need to modify the table create query in mcp.ez_rate.php, and then re-install the module.