jQuery: writing a star rating plugin
I’m “in” jQuery for a while now, and I must admit I like it very much. It’s lightweight, crossbrowser and very easy to extend and write. We had an discussion last week about moving from Prototype to some other library, and I decided to write a simple plugin to show how jQuery behaves in a real world example.
Logic was simple, write a plugin:
- that overrides original markup so users with disabled js would get a form with radio buttons or dropdowns so they can vote too
- so we can quickly change url of a file that handles db connection and data
- so we can quickly change maximum vote number
- that has the option to get current score of something on startup
User is remembered by a cookie so he can chage his vote whenever he wants.
Check out the demo please, or the plugin itself. You can extend and change it, feedback is a must :) Note that this is initial stage of the plugin and there is (always) room for improvements.
I am interested in your opinions on jQuery and/or other libraries, and especially if you are using jQuery how is jQuery behaving in medium or large scale projets.
Great, simple, nice!
Could you be so kind to give us a simple example of test.php
I mean some code for connecting with the database, etc.
I even have no idea what kind of post request this great thing makes :(
You catch the post data as you would in any other “normal” way. Read any ajax tutorial out there and you will get it :)