Sometimes logical steps, which we use every day to find solutions for our problems, fail us without a single word of warning. Let me explain. Sudden need for a nice star rating system tutorial, which could be used as a basis for a custom made rating control, resulted with poor response from our mighty search engines. High expectations ended up pretty quickly, and all I could find was either unusable, either poorly documented or broken, or just back linked to previous ones, which is even worse. But, after additional filtering I’ve managed to isolate four tutorials that are worth checking out, and from which we can all learn a thing or two.
Oh yes, one more thing. Please, don’t take this short list personally if some possibly even better tutorials were missed and not included. As I’ve already mentioned, the list is based purely on search engines results, and if you happen to know some other good tutorials with this subject, or you even made one of them, please let me know and I will gladly expand the list, and publicly admit my poor searching skills. Now, lets see what we can use.
Building a 5 Star Rating System with jQuery, AJAX and PHP
Tutorial found at net.tutsplus.com
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to build a rating system with AJAX, PHP, and jQuery. Votes will be recorded and updated in real-time with the magic of AJAX, and we’ll also leverage the power of PHP so that you don’t even need a database!
5 star rating system in PHP, MySQL and jQuery
Tutorial found at webtint.net
I’ve been experimenting with rating systems recently, in jQuery and whatnot, and I thought I’d share the results with you. You can easily expand upon what I’ve made here, to make a more complex system than the basic one I have made. It’s also pretty easy to implement into whatever system you have running. Enjoy!
How to Build a Star Ratings jQuery Plugin
Tutorial found at switchonthecode.com
Lately I’ve been working with jQuery plugins and I decided to create a tutorial demonstrating how to use the jQuery plugin system to build a simple star ratings control.
jQuery Tutorial : Simple ajax star rating with php
Tutorial found at sandbox.ronggur.com
I made this simple ajax star rating for my latest poject. And now i want to share it to you. Let’s start it.
Michael Pehl on June 23, 2010
Thanks for sharing, have to check them out