txp:css_rating

css_rating is a Ajax rating system for Textpattern based on Unobtrusive AJAX Star Rating Bar

<txp:css_rating_bar /> is used to draw voting bar
Attributes:

id: default is current article id (uses $thisarticle[‘thisid’]) and most of the cases you don’t have to specify this. If you want to show rating bar for a diffent article find its article id on articles list. e.g. on index: vote for my awsome “AAA Titled” article <txp:css_rating_bar id="x" /> where “x” is my “AAA Titled” article id (integer)
units: number of rating units you want to use, default is 10. 10 is upper limit.
unitwidth: Width of a rating unit in pixel, default is 30. Note that unitwidth is not used for styling, in rating.css default value 30px used so if you change it you shoul edit the rating style sheet
firstvote: Give your fist vote for all articles, default 7

<txp:css_rating_js /> is used for neccesary javascript and css files. This should be placed in <head> </head> tags
Attributes:

Upload css_rating_sql.php ~~and rating.php~~ to your Textpattern directory. (You can skip this see 8)
Upload 2 images in images folder to images directory.
Upload the rpc.php to root directory (it handles ajax requests)
Go to css_rating_sql.php e.g. http://www.yoursite.com/textpattern/css_rating_sql.php
Delete css_rating_sql.php when you get the success message
Install css_rating
Upload the rating.js file in files folder via Textpattern interface or directly to files folder.
Creating Rating MySQL table (Optional, skip this if you do 1. step) Following table is used for rating data you can run this sql code via phpMyAdmin
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `txp_ratings` ( `id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL, `total_votes` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL, `total_value` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL, `used_ips` longtext NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`id`) ) TYPE=MyISAM;

<txp:css_rating_bar id="84" units="8"/>

Rating: 6.0 (541 votes)

<txp:css_rating_bar id="80" units="5" />

Rating: 4.0 (438 votes)