Unrated Stories

Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 2:16 pm

I don't know if this bothered anyone else, but I didn't like it that a story with no votes would show a rating of "0". I searched around, and didn't see a change for this, so I made one myself, and just thought I would share, incase someone else wanted it.

I changed it to read "Be the first to rate this story".

In modules / News / language / lang-english.php
Added:

Quote:

define("_FIRSTTORATE","Be the first to rate this story");

In modules / News / index.php
Changed:

Quote:

if ($score != 0) {
$rated = substr($score / $ratings, 0, 4);
} else {
$rated = 0;
}

To:

Quote:

if ($score != 0) {
$rated = substr($score / $ratings, 0, 4);
} else {
$rated = "$story_link"._FIRSTTORATE."</a>";
}

In modules / News / article.php
Changed:

Quote:

if ($ratings != 0) {
$rate = substr($score / $ratings, 0, 4);
$r_image = round($rate);
if ($r_image == 1) {
$the_image = " <img src=\"images/articles/stars-1.gif\" border=\"1\"></center> ";
} elseif ($r_image == 2) {
$the_image = " <img src=\"images/articles/stars-2.gif\" border=\"1\"></center> ";
} elseif ($r_image == 3) {
$the_image = " <img src=\"images/articles/stars-3.gif\" border=\"1\"></center> ";
} elseif ($r_image == 4) {
$the_image = " <img src=\"images/articles/stars-4.gif\" border=\"1\"></center> ";
} elseif ($r_image == 5) {
$the_image = " <img src=\"images/articles/stars-5.gif\" border=\"1\"></center> ";
}
} else {
$rate = 0;
$the_image = "</center> ";
}

To:

Quote:

if ($ratings != 0) {
$rate = substr($score / $ratings, 0, 4);
$r_image = round($rate);
if ($r_image == 1) {
$the_image = " <img src=\"images/articles/stars-1.gif\" border=\"1\"></center> ";
} elseif ($r_image == 2) {
$the_image = " <img src=\"images/articles/stars-2.gif\" border=\"1\"></center> ";
} elseif ($r_image == 3) {
$the_image = " <img src=\"images/articles/stars-3.gif\" border=\"1\"></center> ";
} elseif ($r_image == 4) {
$the_image = " <img src=\"images/articles/stars-4.gif\" border=\"1\"></center> ";
} elseif ($r_image == 5) {
$the_image = " <img src=\"images/articles/stars-5.gif\" border=\"1\"></center> ";
}
} else {
$rate = "Be the first to rate this story";
$the_image = "</center> ";
}

Luna Faye

Captain Joined: Dec 19, 2004 Posts: 663 Location: Canada

hey nice hack. I already implementited it. Smile

But my rating is not working. It could be other problem. Thanks