Rate this Topic 1.1a

This hack allow your visitors to rate every topic from 1 (worse) to 5 (best) on your board.

New in 1.1a: Option which allows topic starter to disable rating.

Download

Philipp

[ April 02, 2001: Message edited by: Philipp ]

what is the url

*NM I see you added it*

[ March 23, 2001: Message edited by: M2sc-com ]

Very Nice work, I love this hack.

demo?

Great Hack! Works perfectly on my board. Thanks!

Andrus

i belive UBB DEV use this addon, as i saw it at the bottom

~RATE THIS TOPIC~

i saw it on the whos online, chapter 2.

Also nice work, this mod sounds pretty spiffy, i will install it very soon, i gotta move my site to a different host first

Two problems/questions on this hack.

First--does it work in both 6.0 and 6.01 or only 6.01?

I tried adding it to 6.0 and almost got it to work (see next comment below) but after trying to rate a topic, received a cgi error code about being unable to open line 63 in ubb_rate_topic.cgi. I can post the exact error message here later if you want to see it.

Second--is there an error in the readme.txt file?

You say the following in that file...

########################################
public_forum_page.pl (Templates)
--------------------------------
########################################
Find
########################################

<TD align="center">
<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="$vars_style{TableStripTextColor}" FACE="$vars_style{FontFace}">
<B>$vars_wordlets{total_replies_header}</B></FONT>
</TD>

########################################
and add the follow
########################################

<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="$vars_style{TableStripTextColor}" FACE="$vars_style{FontFace}">
<B>$vars_wordlets_rate{rating_column}</B></FONT>
</TD>

---
Should there be an extra <td> tag at the beginning of that last text? My formatting didn't work properly until I added another <td> tag.

Found a typo in the instructions:

########################################
public_forum_page.pl (Templates)
--------------------------------
########################################
Find
########################################

<TD align="center">
<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="$vars_style{TableStripTextColor}" FACE="$vars_style{FontFace}">
<B>$vars_wordlets{total_replies_header}</B></FONT>
</TD>

########################################
and add the follow
########################################

<TD align="center">
<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="$vars_style{TableStripTextColor}" FACE="$vars_style{FontFace}">
<B>$vars_wordlets_rate{rating_column}</B></FONT>
</TD>

LOL twinspin at the same time

Yes this is a typo in the readme. I just updated the ZIP.



Did you create a thread_ratings folder (CHMOD 777) in your Members directory?



There is no demo except on my local machine but here a screenshot:

this addon is sweet man, it works great, and looks very nice aswel, very good work!

what to you hope to do in the next release, beta/final?

Philipp

Can you make rate this topic a choice for the topic starter? On my board some people opt not to be rated. Please me know if you have will include in your next release.

Great Hack!!!

One question, I also have the gradient hack installed, and really hate to fool with this all since it's working, do you know where in your code, I need to add the gradient call, so I have a consistant bar?

Phillip,

Yes I do have the threads_rating folder in my members directory and proper permissions.

Any other thoughts?

The next version (Maybe next week) comes with a few control panel options.



I didn't tried the gradient hack yet but I check it out.



Thats odd. I don't know what this cause. Do you use mod_perl?

I noticed that the rating ends up equalling the last rating. I tested it out on my board and another board and saw same results. I looked at the files in the thread_ratings folder and they are still registering 1 vote even thought the topic has received multiple ratings. Anyone else getting the same issue?

Stang5_0, the gradient coding would go in this section

<TD align="center" your gradient coding here>
<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="$vars_style{TableStripTextColor}" FACE="$vars_style{FontFace}">
<B>$vars_wordlets_rate{rating_column}</B></FONT>
</TD>

Magnum

Stang5_0 - my apologies for adding a rating on your topic on your board but you have the same problem as me. I rated a topic that was previously rated a 5. I rated it a 1. It should average the 2 ratings and come up with 2.5 (rounds to 2) but the new rating is a 1.

Perfect, thanx Magnum!


Thats ok Garland, maybe there will be a fix and I can fix it hehehehe

[ March 24, 2001: Message edited by: Stang5_0 ]

Stang5_0

Take a look in the thread_ratings folder and see if it shows two votes. If we both have the same problem I would say it is a bug in the code. Thanks.

Jim