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LexRating (by goldsky) is a jQuery's star rating plugin, based on rateit.codeplex.com (by gidon).

For MODX implementation, this extra uses AJAX to store the rating.

All issues can be notified in its github's page.

You can get it by downloading it via Package Manager.

There are 2 snippets for this package:

  1. LexRating,
  2. LexRatingList, to list the rating results.

There is a Quip's hook: LexRatingQuipPostHook, to create a star rating on each comment. Think about a comment based star rating.

LexRating

This snippet offers web visitor to give a rating into an object/item, based on the given name. This snippet checks the visitor's IP address, and if visitor logged in, the visitor's ID

Properties

Name Description Example Default Value Options
name Defines the name of the rating's item &name=[[*pagetitle]] [[*id]] string
group Defines the rating's group name.
This will be useful to compare the results using LexRatingList &group=articles modResource string
userGroups Defines who is able to vote. &userGroups=Members empty comma separated group names
extended (@since 1.0.0-beta.2) To set and get an additional extended parameter of individual vote account &extended={"quipReplyId":"[[+idprefix]]``[[+id]]"} empty practically any string
initialAjax Load the initial values using Ajax &initialAjax=1 1 1
readOnly (@since 1.0.0-beta.2) read only mode &readOnly=1 1 1
tpl Template chunk for the output, can be chunk or file based chunk. &tpl=``[[++core_path]]templates/blabla.tpl lexrating chunk name or file path
css CSS filename &css=assets/templates/css/blabla.css assets/components/lexrating/default/css/lexrating.css string
js Javascript filename &css=assets/templates/js/blabla.js assets/components/lexrating/default/js/lexrating.js string
loadjQuery Auto load/disable jQuery &loadjQuery=0 1 1
phsPrefix Prefix for placeholders &phsPrefix=blabla. lexrating. string
toArray Return an array of placeholders &toArray=1 null 1
toPlaceholder Save the output into the given name placeholder &toPlaceholder=my_rating null string

Placeholders

To get the complete placeholders, just use &toArray=1 to spit out the keys.

Name Description
[[+lexrating.name]] The name you specify in the snippet
[[+lexrating.group]] The group name you specify in the snippet
[[+lexrating.total.voters]] Total number of the voters
[[+lexrating.initialAjax]] The property you set in the snippet call

Example

[[LexRating?
&name=`[[*pagetitle]]`
&group=`articles`
&userGroups=`Members`
]]

If you just want to display a rating of an item, use this

[[LexRating?
&name=`[[*pagetitle]]`
&group=`articles`
&initialAjax=`0`
&readOnly=`1`
]]

LexRatingList

This snippet retrieves the items of the LexRating's results based on the given group name.

Properties

Name Description Example Default Value Options
group The group name to be retrieved &group=articles modResource string
limit Limit the number of ouput &limit=10 10 int
offset Query's limit offset &offset=10 0 int
sort Sorting direction &sort=asc desc asc (lo-hi)
tplListWrapper Template chunk for wrapper, can be chunk or file based chunk &tplListWrapper=lexratinglist.wrapper lexratinglist.wrapper chunk name or file path
tplListItem Template chunk for each item, can be chunk or file based chunk &tplListItem=lexratinglist.item lexratinglist.item chunk name or file path
css CSS filename &css=assets/templates/css/blabla.css assets/components/lexrating/default/css/lexrating.css string
js Javascript filename &css=assets/templates/js/blabla.js assets/components/lexrating/default/js/lexrating.js string
loadjQuery Auto load/disable jQuery &loadjQuery=0 1 1
phsPrefix Prefix for placeholders &phsPrefix=blabla. lexrating. string
toArray Return an array of placeholders &toArray=1 null 1
toPlaceholder Save the output into the given name placeholder &toPlaceholder=my\_rating null string

Placeholders

To get the complete placeholders, just use &toArray=1 to spit out the keys.

WRAPPER:

Name Description
[[+lexrating.list.items]] The holder of the list of the items

LIST:

Name Description
[[+lexrating.name]] The name you specify in the snippet
[[+lexrating.group]] The group name you specify in the snippet
[[+lexrating.total.voters]] Total number of the voters
[[+lexrating.initialAjax]] The property you set in the snippet call

Example

[[LexRatingList? &group=articles]]

LexRatingQuipPostHook

This hook requires quip's thread name. This only works once for each IP Address + userID. So any logged in user can not vote twice.

On the quip's call, try to use this as an example:

[[LexRatingList? &group=`articles`]]

LexRatingQuipPostHook

This hook requires quip's thread name. This only works once for each IP Address + userID. So any logged in user can not vote twice.

On the quip's call, try to use this as an example:

<p>Total Rating:</p>
[[!LexRatingList?
&name=`threadNameHere`
&group=`Overall Rating`
]]
<br />
[[!Quip?
&thread=`threadNameHere`
&tplComment=`lexrating.quipComment`
]]
<br />
[[!QuipReply?
&thread=`threadNameHere`
&postHooks=`LexRatingQuipPostHook`
&tplAddComment=`lexrating.quipAddComment`
&redirectTo=`[[*id]]`
]]

You can sync the connection between the thread's name (eg:threadNameHere) with the LexRating inside the other chunk, lexrating.quipComment Basically, it only adds up the LexRating call but with the proper properties to make this works:

[[!LexRating?
&group=`Overall Rating`
&name=`[[+thread]]`
&extended=`{"quipReplyId":"[[+idprefix]][[+id]]"}`
&readOnly=`1`
&tpl=`lexrating.quip`
&js=``
&loadjQuery=`0`
&initialAjax=`0`
&_toArray=`1`
]]

&group is for the title, &name must be as same as the quip's thread name

What &extended does is only to identify each of the vote. You can change it anything, as long as it's the same with what the lexrating.quip needs for its placeholder.

data-rateit-extended="[[+lexrating.extended]]"

You must specify different names for the quip's thread names, remember to change/duplicate part of the chunks:

the duplicate of lexrating.quipAddComment

<!-- replace lexrating_groupName's value with what you have as the &group -->
<input type="hidden" name="lexrating_groupName" value="Overall Rating" />

<!-- but leave this one untouched because the &name is using the same placeholder [[+thread]] anyway -->
<input type="hidden" name="lexrating_objectName" value="[[+thread]]" />

the duplicate of lexrating.quipComment

&group=`Overall Rating` // <== replace this

You need to empty out the database when testing, because LexRating fills up the data automatically, while the access is limited to once per IP/user ID

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