Ratings added to CFLib

This morning I pushed up ratings to CFLib. CFLib used to have ratings some time ago, so this is actually an old feature coming back. I used the same jQuery plugin that SlideSix uses (http://php.scripts.psu.edu/rja171/widgets/rating.php). To be honest, I really don't like this plugin. Turning off the cancel was a pain in the rear. I would have used the Spry rating widget instead, but I really wanted to give jQuery ratings a try. At the end of the day though it works, so I'll leave it be. One nice thing about it though - I can pass it a rating value of X.2 and it rounds it down to X starts. Pass it X.5 and it correctly shows a half star.

Later this week I'll be adding a right hand list of the top rated UDFs.

Oh, and in case folks are curious, I did not add any protection from multiple voting. I originally used code that stored your rankings in a session variable. I turned that off during testing and didn't bother re-enabling it. I figure it someone is so bored they want to cheat their UDF up, more power to em. ;)

Archived Comments

Comment 1 by salomoko posted on 12/31/2008 at 8:10 AM

quick concern.

is cflib.org written in any framework?

Comment 2 by Raymond Camden posted on 12/31/2008 at 8:19 AM

Model-Glue and Transfer and ColdSpring.

Comment 3 by salomoko posted on 12/31/2008 at 8:23 AM

right on! obviously with some coldcourse action right...?

good job! I like it!

cheers

Comment 4 by Raymond Camden posted on 12/31/2008 at 8:24 AM

I have to admit - I don't know what coldcourse is. Obviously I'm not using it. ;)

Comment 5 by salomoko posted on 12/31/2008 at 8:34 AM

hah! sorry I may have it wrong myself, but never the less, I was getting at how you handle your SES urls?

sorry

Comment 6 by Raymond Camden posted on 12/31/2008 at 8:36 AM

On my local dev environment, I use Apache, and SES URLs are built in. Production is IIS and I use IIRF, a free URL rewriter plugin. In general I don't recommend using a different dev web server than production, but it's just my personal sites.

Comment 7 by salomoko posted on 12/31/2008 at 8:40 AM

cool thanks.

http://coldcourse.riaforge....

c'mon man, you don't know every single project by heart on riaforge? ;-)

Comment 8 by existdissolve posted on 12/31/2008 at 9:31 AM

I've been using Spry's rating widget for a while now, and I've been quite pleased with it. As with all things Spry, it is ridiculously easy to implement, and works quite nicely with the server-side interactions as well.

Comment 9 by Erik Vold posted on 12/31/2008 at 11:47 AM

Sweet thanks!