When I choose: Rating Access - Registered

[Cason]

Hi! I have a really important question:

In your plugin I chose "Rating Access - Registered" because I wanted to restrict the voting to one vote per visitor, so the best reliable way is of course to attach each vote to a user and to keep track of his votes.

But now to my surprise I fear that actually the only thing that choosing the option of "Rating Access - Registered" doing is just allowing a vote by logged in users - but it doesn't mean that the same user can't vote twice (after someone else voted from another IP address)...

Am I right in my suspicion about this? Is that the case, that a looged in user can vote twice?

And if so, is there a way to change something in order to allow each registered user only one vote in total?

Please let me know. This is EXTREMELY important for me.

Thank you!

Craig

[chus]

This plugin uses joomla's core 'jos_content_rating' database table which only stores the last ip and no other record.

You can read more about it at:

http://joomla.vargas.co.cr/documentatio ... -vote-work

[arthur_abraham]

hi chus

extravote is infact one of my favourite extensions ... it's just loveable!

What Cason asks has already been asked in this thread i guess (multiple voting)
http://joomla.vargas.co.cr/forum?view=topic&f=16&t=2356

would it be possible to assist us on how to change the code to store all ip's in database?

I fully understand if you write that you don't have time for that. I would only love to hear your opinion on that and if it is possible.

best regards,

arthur

[arthur_abraham]

hi

i didn't get a reply so i might explain myself more clear. i hope you don't mind.

every answer is cool chus. even if you only wrote 5 words its accepted. but please
try to answer to make it clear if we can rely on a little help from you or if we stand
alone. if you want to consider this as commercial paid, i would be happy to
contribute. just let us know please

thx for an answer and anyway for all your rocking extensions (xmap, extravote, dinamods)

[arthur_abraham]

hello?

is there a particular reason why you don't answer?

it should take you less than 1 minute, so please do me this favour.

[chus]

Hi!

would it be possible to assist us on how to change the code to store all ip's in database?

I'm sorry but I don't know what's the best way to do that.

Best Regards!

[arthur_abraham]

hi

no problem and thank you for the honest answer.

by scaning the forum i found a thread with a promising approach
by simply creating an additional mysqltable with the rows IP and contentID and then
just inserting the values on every vote and checking this table before every vote:

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$query = 'INSERT INTO log_rating  (IP, content_id )' .
     'VALUES ('  . $db->Quote($userIP) . ',' . (int) $content_id . ')';
$db->setQuery($query);
$db->query();

.....

what do you think about this kind of approach?

atm i am thinking about paying a coder for implementing this lines correctly.
Unfortunately im not very skilled and i have high respect from people like you
coding such awesome extensions. If i will hire a coder, i will be happy to share
the code here for all the community.

take care people