Does anyone have experience of setting up a user rating system, preferably with provision for user comments? Specifically, the idea is to run a survey among visitors to www.yachtpilot.net to rate sailing facilities 1 to 5 stars in a particular part of the country. Visitors would also be able to add short comments on aspects of the facilities. Preferably the system should prevent people voting more than once and allow blocking of votes from certain quarters (e.g. owners of the relevant facility). There also needs to be provision for editing or removal of comments. The best script I’ve found so far seems to be Star Rating System Pro by GraFX at http://www.grafxsoftware.com/ I don’t know how reliable this is or how easy to use. Any ideas?
What if any server scripting languages are you familiar with? If you head over to http://hotscripts.com you can pick from many different languages like PHP, Ruby, Perl, etc. and find free or paid scripts to do darned near anything.
If you find one or more that look likely, post a message on the Dynamo list, where there’s a lower geek / designer ratio (often within individual members) and you can get some advice on threading the code into your layout.
I’m not very familiar with any scripting languages though I have used JavaScript (i.e. adapted ready made scripts). Thanks for the info on hotscripts which certainly has a number of rating scripts. I’m also keen to allow people to post comments which seems to be a bit rarer.
I’m not sure you’ll find both in the same script. I’ve never seen that
combo myself. But you might be able to put one script in for each and
just track them separately.
Walter
On Nov 22, 2009, at 3:24 PM, Rod Lord wrote:
I’m not very familiar with any scripting languages though I have
used JavaScript (i.e. adapted ready made scripts). Thanks for the
info on hotscripts which certainly has a number of rating scripts.
I’m also keen to allow people to post comments which seems to be a
bit rarer.
For discussion only, Disqus is a great solution. It’s a hosted (free) application that you add to your page using one line of JavaScript. Once a person has an account on Disqus, they will be recognized automagically on any Disqus powered page, so no additional login needed. There’s a good-quality CAPTCHA built in, so you should have a fairly high signal to noise ratio.