I was just working out how you created your search function. Whether you shared a custom field group across reviews, news etc.

you’ve lost me, my search results page is still legacy from v1 of the site and contains nothing special… It’s on my to-do list…

Happy to share code if you want to know something specific.

can you send a link to a page?..

Ah it’s ok, I was getting caught up in a more complicated way of doing things. I had a product catalogue and the client wanted other custom fields in the search results (nightmare!).

{entry_id} is available, embeds based on weblog id should work easily.. no?..

iain - 13 February 2008 02:42 PM

@deronsizemore: Both tools are members only I’m afraid… can’t imagine how favourites could work for guests. My php skills are minimal.

Ratings took 10 minutes to implement. very straight forward and well documented with examples etc. Only issue I’ve found is that if i allow guests to rate, the allow_duplicate parameter seems to be inefective… Might be me tho’, as I’ve said i haven’t had time to do much with it yet.

Thanks again everyone for the feedback.

Yeah, I’m not sure about the favorites module either. I remember at one point there was a sort of digg clone type site made with EE and the favorites module and I didn’t think you had to be a member to favorite articles (or bump them up to the top of the list like digg), but I could be wrong about that.

Thanks for the info on the ratings module. I plan on using it for non members to rate articles so I guess I’ll find out about the duplicates issue you’re having and then contact Mitchell over at Solspace if I have any problems.

Not sure if you’re talking about the same favourites module?... Solspace Favourites lets members create a list of permanent favourite entries for handy reference - like a shopping cart. I can’t see how a non-member can have this type of functionality.

It also has features like “People who bookmarked this, bookmarked this and this etc..” Each ‘favourite’ can be associated with members and via the admin you can browse members favourites…

Ratings doesn’t seem to have member data associated with it, and as far as i can see is more open for abuse - hence making it member only at this stage. I don’t want to have guests entering their name and email to make a rating also, they may as well signup and become members in my opinion…

Again, I may be wrong as I’ve only skimmed through the docs and done a quick implementation at this stage.

I’m probably just confused then about the favorites module.

I’m not quite sure what you’re referring too when you say that the ratings module doesn’t seem to have member data associated with it? Are you saying that you can only use the ratings module with a membership site where users would have to sign up for an account first before they can rate?

Do users making a rating have to enter a name and email every time they rate an entry?

EDIT: Nevermind, I reread some old posts in this thread and saw where you said both tools were members only.

deronsizemore - 14 February 2008 11:20 PM

Do users making a rating have to enter a name and email every time they rate an entry?

No, you can have guest simply submit, but i’d rather see who has rated what and want genuine rating results by genuine members.

The rating module as i see it is not as well integrated as favourites as far as member information goes, that’s all i’m saying.

You’re best to get your info from Mitchell and post on his forums, I may be incorrect.

I’ll see what I can dig up over at Solspace. Thanks for all the info.