Number of Stars

[wchild]

I just installed Extra Vote and I'm not sure what the different #s do at the end of the code. For example I have {extravote 6}. What is the difference if I have another number besides 6. Also, I'm getting 6 stars instead of 5 stars. How do I change that?

[chus]

Hi,

It doesn't matter what number you type, as long as you don't repeat it in the same article. It is just an id to which assign the rating for a specific part of your content. It is also important not to change that number once the first vote has been stored.

I don't know why you are getting six stars instead of five... have you modified or replaced the stars images that came in the package?

[wchild]

Thanks for the information about the numbers. Here is a link to a page where I have the Extra Vote showing.
http://www.professor-mario.com/medcente ... &Itemid=29

I haven't made any changes. I have kept everything as the default install.

[butters]

Hi,
I love this plugin; it's so simple and works really well.
One person's 'bug' is another person's 'feature'; I need more than 5 stars so I can guarantee greater differentiation between results. I need to be able to have ratings out of 10 stars.
Is this possible? If so, how do I achieve it?

Thanks for your help!
Andrew

[skint]

Butters,

I need more than 5 stars so I can guarantee greater differentiation between results. I need to be able to have ratings out of 10 stars.
Is this possible? If so, how do I achieve it?

Thanks for your help!
Andrew

I was in the same boat, here's what I did to enable 10 star voting:

I edited both of the extravote.php and backup.php files in the same manner, I'm pretty sure only $site_root/plugins/content/extravote.php needs to be edited though. The other two files are in $site_root/plugins/content/extravote/.

line 96 change:

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intval( $rating_count ))*20

to

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intval( $rating_count ))*10

and after line 116, add rating counts and associated CSS classes for ratings 6 - 10. My choices were pretty cheesy after 5, so you might to pick something else.

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<li><a href=\"javascript:void(null)\" onclick=\"javascript:JVXVote(".$id.",6,".$rating_sum.",".$rating_count.",'".$xid."',".$counter.");\" title=\"".JTEXT::_('Super Good')."\" class=\"ev-six-stars\">6</a></li>
    118 <li><a href=\"javascript:void(null)\" onclick=\"javascript:JVXVote(".$id.",7,".$rating_sum.",".$rating_count.",'".$xid."',".$counter.");\" title=\"".JTEXT::_('Even Better')."\" class=\"ev-seven-stars\">7</a></li>
    119 <li><a href=\"javascript:void(null)\" onclick=\"javascript:JVXVote(".$id.",8,".$rating_sum.",".$rating_count.",'".$xid."',".$counter.");\" title=\"".JTEXT::_('Still Better')."\" class=\"ev-eight-stars\">8</a></li>
    120 <li><a href=\"javascript:void(null)\" onclick=\"javascript:JVXVote(".$id.",9,".$rating_sum.",".$rating_count.",'".$xid."',".$counter.");\" title=\"".JTEXT::_('Excellent')."\" class=\"ev-nine-stars\">9</a></li>
    121 <li><a href=\"javascript:void(null)\" onclick=\"javascript:JVXVote(".$id.",10,".$rating_sum.",".$rating_count.",'".$xid."',".$counter.");\" title=\"".JTEXT::_('The Best')."\" class=\"ev-ten-stars\">10</a></li>


line 45 in ajax.php change:

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if (($user_rating >= 1) and ($user_rating <= 5)) {

to:

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if (($user_rating >= 1) and ($user_rating <= 10)) {

You'll need to extend the widths inside extravote.css to double their normal size and adjust width settings for ev-one through five to 10%. Here is the end result:

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ul.extravote-stars{height:25px;width:250px;padding:0!important;margin:0!important;}
ul.extravote-stars-small{height:22px;width:220px;padding:0!important;margin:0!important;}
.
.
.
li a.ev-one-star{width:10%;padding:0;margin:0;z-index:11;}
li a.ev-two-stars{width:20%;padding:0;margin:0;z-index:10;}
li a.ev-three-stars{width:30%;padding:0;margin:0;z-index:9;}
li a.ev-four-stars{width:40%;padding:0;margin:0;z-index:8;}
li a.ev-five-stars{width:50%;padding:0;margin:0;z-index:7;}
li a.ev-six-stars{width:60%;padding:0;margin:0;z-index:6;}
li a.ev-seven-stars{width:70%;padding:0;margin:0;z-index:5;}
li a.ev-eight-stars{width:80%;padding:0;margin:0;z-index:4;}
li a.ev-nine-stars{width:90%;padding:0;margin:0;z-index:3;}
li a.ev-ten-stars{width:100%;padding:0;margin:0;z-index:2;}


Not sure if you need to edit en-GB.plg_content_extravote.ini, but I put my vote text in there just in case.

Hope that helps.

-skint