Is it possible with the rating module to simply display stars (or whatever graphic to indicate the rating) only and not allow users of the site to write reviews? I’m only looking to allow visitors to rate weblog entries, and that’s it. I could possibly add review functionality in later, but not now.

Similar to what I’ve got here on this site of mine: http://www.nicestylesheet.com? with the rating stars? This site is just some custom stuff with javascript and php to make the ratings work, but it’s not easy for me to deal with since I don’t know javascript or php (someone else helped with this aspect of the site). I’m hoping the rating module can duplicate this so that I manage everything a little easier and actually follow some documentation.

Thanks

Deron,

You can use the Rating module for this. You can get code for that star hover / rate effect from several of our sites. The most recent is fanhub.com. Reviews are not required when submitting.

mk

Mitchell,

Long time no talk! Thanks for getting back with me on this. That sounds great. I should have went this route with NiceStylesheet I think. I instead went a custom route and had to jump through major hoops to get everything working. Oh well, live and learn I guess. Fanhub looks good, that would be exactly what I need I believe.

A couple last questions, I notice that you’re giving a 30 day money back guarantee on the rating module. Is this because you typically see a lot of people struggling with getting the rating module implemented and give up?

Also, when I purchase the rating module, am I free to use it on multiple sites, or do you require multiple purchases for multiple sites? Sorry if this is obviously written somewhere on your site, I didn’t see it.

Thanks,
Deron

deronsizemore - 13 February 2008 08:34 AM

A couple last questions, I notice that you’re giving a 30 day money back guarantee on the rating module. Is this because you typically see a lot of people struggling with getting the rating module implemented and give up?

Certainly not!
The Rating Module (like most other Solspace modules) is very easy and straightforward to set up. The 30 day money back guarantee is available on all products as a generosity
If you find out a certain Module isn’t what you we’re looking for, or, if you do have too much difficulty with it, we will refund your payment

deronsizemore - 13 February 2008 08:34 AM

Also, when I purchase the rating module, am I free to use it on multiple sites, or do you require multiple purchases for multiple sites? Sorry if this is obviously written somewhere on your site, I didn’t see it.

No problems!
A purchased license is required for each installed instance of this software. One license grants the right to perform one installation. Each additional installation of this software requires an additional purchased license.

Pie Man - 13 February 2008 08:43 AM

Certainly not!
The Rating Module (like most other Solspace modules) is very easy and straightforward to set up. The 30 day money back guarantee is available on all products as a generosity
If you find out a certain Module isn’t what you we’re looking for, or, if you do have too much difficulty with it, we will refund your payment

hehe, good to know! I just hadn’t noticed the 30 day money back guarantee on any of the the other downloads, so that got me curious.

Pie Man - 13 February 2008 08:43 AM

No problems!
A purchased license is required for each installed instance of this software. One license grants the right to perform one installation. Each additional installation of this software requires an additional purchased license.

Sounds good. That’s what I assumed, but never hurts to ask I guess.

Thanks

Hey Deron,

Always good to hear from you sir. Kelsey has everything correct there. Using the Rating module at its basic level is pretty easy for someone with EE templating experience. Some people who are just starting on EE have found it challenging. It comes with the territory of what the module can do I think. At the more advanced level of the module things can get convoluted, but again, that’s at the power user level where you’re doing a fanhub.com type thing and collecting a bunch reviews across different attributes and such.

30 day refunds make life easy for everyone.

Cheers!

mk

Back with more questions.

In discussing the ratings module in the EE forums: http://expressionengine.com/forums/viewreply/353333/

The first part of the reply says that the ratings module is a members only module...but then in the second part the author says that anytime they allow guests to to rate entries the allow_duplicate parameter seems to be ineffective.

I have a need for this module, but I don’t want to require membership to rate and I also would definitely need to disallow duplicate votes from the same person whether that be by IP address, cookie, or however. These possible?

Just use these parameters:

and

Nice! Thanks.

So, using

will actually disallow people from rating twice? Where I’ve not used the module and these are all purely off the top of my head questions, it seems like

make it so people couldn’t rate more than once since “no” would indicate that I’m not allowing duplicates?

Correct…

It’s funny, because looking at the documentation, there’s also this parameter:

The ‘anonymous’ parameter allows you to tell the Rating module to accept ratings from non-logged users.

Unless I don’t understand correctly, this seems a little redundant with:

If the ‘require_membership’ parameter is set to no, non-members or logged-out members will be able to post ratings regardless of the preference set for the weblog to which the entry belongs.

In both senses, EE would read the logged out member or guest as Guests.

Yeah, that does seem redundant.

Thanks for the help. At least I know this is possible now. I’ll probably grab the module here soon and try it out. I’ll post back with anymore questions.