New 5 Star Rating System

New5starRating Version 1.0
Developed by Joe Pieruccini
under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 Australia License at www.maniacomputer.com
email : jp50@maniacomputer.com

Price :  Free

Updated :  10-04-2009

User Guide

Introduction

This rating system has been developed using  template files and the PHP code is completely separated from the HTML  and a very little knowledge of PHP is needed to make things run smoothly .As you will see later in the User Guide this system is very flexible and it can be customized in any way to meet your website look, easy and quickly . Of course, being a dynamic application your webpages must be capable of parsing PHP,in other words they must have a .php extension or even .html or .htm and your webserver must be configured to parse PHP with such extensions .For more details about this issue visit this page.
You can add this rating system to your webpages just copying ant pasting  a couple of lines of code.

Features

If you decide to use this application , you may show your visitors not only how the page is rated but also the date it was first added and how many clicks,obviously you can choose not to show them, and also a chart with a detailed rating situation by vote just clicking Show Details.See screenshots of a banner 400X140 below


Or you can look at this example

You can also choose a default template Vertical Banner (120 x 240) like the screenshot below.In this case the chart opens in a new small window.
  
Also you can choose to add the rating system to a single page that will be stored in a table by the page name or to rate multiple items on a dynamic page like pictures, directories, tutorials, software (.watch this sample) that will be stored in a table by the item id.A classic utilization example is a database driven website with a list of items that have to be rated by visitors.

The installation is very simple with a very intuitive visual interface ,where you enter all the initial setting and it will do all the work including database and tables, if you aren't confident with MySql .After the installation you can change your configuration from the Control Panel

See User Guide for more

 

Have a look at the Control Panel example here .

To access the admin Control panel  user admin  password admin

You may also customize the look by editing the .s file or change it in the way you think better for your web site without seeking my permission. All I ask you is a link back to http://www.maniacomputer.com

If you download this script, please take a second, Rate it

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Download New5StarRating 1.0

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 Australia License.