AJAX Star Rating helper

An AJAX Star Rating Helper based on link1 and link2.

Installation instructions.
1) Download + install CJS Templates version 2.1 from cakeforge snippets
2) Copy star CSS file to app/webroot/css/star_rating/star_rating.css
  and add the line “overflow: hidden;” to .star-rating
3) Copy star Image file to app/webroot/css/star_rating/alt_star.gif
4) Copy the helper to app/views/helpers/star_rating.php

Usage example: include the helper and in your view file:

echo $starRating->display(‘Post/rating’,”/posts/rate/$id”)

It will create a star rater for the field Post/rating. An AJAX call will be made to /posts/rate/$id/$rate_value ( /$rate_value is appended to the CakeUrl that you pass to display function )

<?php
/**
 * Star Rating Helper
 *
 * @author RosSoft
 * @version 0.1
 * @license MIT
 *
 * @link http://www.naffis.com/blog/articles/2006/08/31/rails-ajax-star-rating-system
 *
 * Copy star CSS file to app/webroot/css/star_rating/star_rating.css
 * and add the line “overflow: hidden;” to .star-rating
 *
 * @link http://komodomedia.com/blog/samples/star_rating/example2.htm
 *
 *
 *
 * Copy star Image file to app/webroot/css/star_rating/alt_star.gif
 * http://komodomedia.com//blog/samples/star_rating/alt_star.gif
 *
 * @package helpers
 *
 * Usage example: include the helper and in your view file:
 * echo $starRating->display(‘Post/rating’,”/posts/rate/$id”)
 * It will create a star rater for the field Post/rating. An AJAX call
 * will be made to /posts/rate/$id/$rate_value
 * ( /$rate_value is appended to the CakeUrl that you pass to display function )
 */

class StarRatingHelper extends Helper
{
    var $helpers=array(‘Head’,’Util’,’Page’);

    /**
     * Pixels of star width
     */
    var $_star_width=25;

    var $ratings=array(
        array(    ‘title’=>’1 estrella de 5’,
                ‘class’=>’one-star’),

        array(    ‘title’=>’2 estrellas de 5’,
                ‘class’=>’two-stars’),

        array(    ‘title’=>’3 estrellas de 5’,
                ‘class’=>’three-stars’),

        array(    ‘title’=>’4 estrellas de 5’,
                ‘class’=>’four-stars’),

        array(    ‘title’=>’5 estrellas de 5’,
                ‘class’=>’five-stars’)
        );

    function _width($score)
    {
        if ($score >=0 && $score <=5)
        {
            $width = $score * $this->_star_width;
        }
        else
        {
            $width=0;
        }
        return $width;
    }

    /**
     * Creates a star rater.
     * @param mixed $value Model/field of the actual rate or the rate in float [0..5]
     *     Examples:
     *   3.5
     *   Post/rate
     * @url Url to be called through AJAX
     *  Example: if you need to rate the post id 3
     *     $url=’/post/rate/3′
     *  Then when clicked the 5 stars, the url called will be /post/rate/3/5
     * @return string The html code for the star rater
     */
    function display($value,$url)
    {
        static $index=0;
        $index++;

        $this->Head->css(‘star_rating/star_rating’);
        if (!is_numeric($value))
        {
            $score=$this->Util->retrieve_value($value);
            $id=$this->Util->fieldname_to_formid($value);
        }
        else
        {
            $score=$value;
            $id=”star_$index”;
        }
        $width=$this->_width($score);
        ob_start();
        ?>
        <ul class=’star-rating’ id='<?php echo $id?>’>
            <li class=’current-rating’ style=’width:<?php echo $width?>px;’></li>

            <?php for ($i=0;$i<5;$i++):?>
                <li><a href=’#’ onclick=”return false;” title='<?php echo $this->ratings[$i][‘title’]?>’ class=’star <?php echo $this->ratings[$i][‘class’]?>’><?php echo($i+1)?></a></li>
                <?php echo $this->Page->event(“#$id .{$this->ratings[$i][‘class’]}”,’click’,$this->Page->remote_url($url . ‘/’ . ($i+1),array(),false))?>
            <?php endfor;?>
        </ul>
        <?php
        return ob_get_clean();
    }

    /**
     * Change the number of stars of a displayed star rater
     * @param string $dom_id The DOM ID of the star rater to change
     * @param float $score The score from 0 to 5
     *
     * @return string HTML-Javascript Code
     */
    function change($dom_id,$score)
    {
        $width=$this->_width($score);
        $css=”#{$dom_id} .current-rating”;
        $js=”_elem.style.width='{$width}px’;”;
        return $this->Page->for_each($css,$js);
    }

    /**
     * Creates an effect of highlight in a displayed star rater
     * @param string $dom_id The DOM ID of the star rater to change
     * @param float $duration Duration of the effect in seconds
     *
     * @return string HTML-Javascript Code
     */
    function highlight($dom_id,$duration=0.3)
    {
        return $this->Page->effect(
            array(    “#$dom_id .current-rating”,
                    “#$dom_id”)
            ,’Highlight’,array(‘duration’=>$duration));
    }

}
?>