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Chapter 1. EXT: Ratings

Extension Key: ratings

Copyright 2007-2009, Netcreators BV, <extensions@netcreators.com>

This document is published under the Open Content License

available from http://www.opencontent.org/opl.shtml

The content of this document is related to TYPO3

- a GNU/GPL CMS/Framework available from www.typo3.com

1.1. Introduction

What does it do?

This extension provides:

  1. A frontend plugin for displaying and adjusting ratings

  2. An AJAX-based voting (extremely fast!)

  3. A highly customizable look for ratings (template and/or css file)

  4. Several image sets for ratings

  5. An API for other extensions to integrate ratings into their records (for photos, news, articles, comments, etc)

  6. A set of hooks to popular extensions to enable the rating functionality inside of them

The extension requires PHP 5.1 or newer. It will not work with PHP 5.0 or older versions. There is no direct dependency on the TYPO3 version but bugs are not accepted if the TYPO3 version is older than current official major TYPO3 version (4.1 in January 2008).

This extension was created by Dmitry Dulepov for Netcreators BV.

Screenshots

Default view, user did not vote yet:

Default view, user already voted:

The following images are shipped with this extension to use in ratings:

The first  image column describes the  “not voted” state, second is “votes” and the images in third column appear when a visitor hovers over the voting bar. All these images are either licensed under GPL or the Creative Commons license. The respective Copyright information is provided in the CSS file that use these images. See the Configuration section for details.