Blog Rating using Masuga Designs’ Unobtrusive Ajax Star Rating

So here’s the scoop on the open source script that I used for our Blog Rating.

Masuga Design Unobtrusive Ajax Star Rating.

This is a rating bar script done with PHP and mySQL that allows users to rate things like can be done on Netflix or Amazon, all web 2.0-like with no page refresh. It is a major improvement on the previous version because it is now unobtrusive, meaning that if Javascript is off it will still work…

There are other sites using this script such as Design Fest, CSSRemix, and Sci Talks.

They’ve all modified the stars and the script… I don’t know who can simply plug and play other then a Word Press plug-in for rating posts or similar rating scripts with one line of code.

I opted for these files because it was using php and interacting with MYSQL database info. All of which was incorporated into our current database. I had to modify my current function which creates the list of recently updated blogs with the rating function.

Total amount of time playing with the code was about 12 hours… on and off for 5 weeks… I finally sat down and re-wrote the function today.

The one thing that I have noticed before is that in any Internet Explorer older than version 7.0, the stars do not appear correctly. Perhaps that is my CSS file but I’m not messing with it anymore.

One of these days I’ll re-launch the option to create your own wordpress blog on BlogsDominicanos. I need to clean that old database and work on the files again…