This snippet lets visitors to your site vote on your web articles using a completely CSS based star rating.

Description

This CSS Star Rating snippet is derived from the komodomedia star rating code.

It allows for a star rating to be included for web articles that you have on your website.

Yes, you might have guessed it already but if you want a Demo URL then look no further ... this snippet is used on the MODx Repository :)

Instructions

Installation

1.Extract all the files into a 'star_rating' folder under 'assets/snippets/'.
2. Copy and paste the contents of star_rating.snippet.tpl into a new snippet title 'star_rating'.
3. Setup a 'text' Template Variable and assign it to the required template. (default TV name used in the snippet is 'star_rating')
4. Add the CSS link into the head of your template.4. Call the snippet uncached on the required document.

Snippet Parameters

• &tvName - Template Variable name where data will be stored (optional, use only if different from 'star_rating')
• &starTpl - Chunk name containing custom template
• &useSession - Whether to only one vote per session (optional)
• &docID - Retrieve star rating from a different Document ID (optional)
• &viewOnly - Disable voting (optional)
• &cssFile - Integer value of alternate css to be used (optional, css paths need to be added to the cssFile array in the snippet)
• &imgWidth - Get the image width, used when displaying current rating (only needed if image width is not 25px)
• &onevote - Use cookie restrictions to only allow one vote
• &ovtime - Cookie expiry time in seconds (default:expire in one week)

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