Rating Code
I am trying to develop a system using ColdFusion that produces a quick graphical view of a site's rating.
The sytem I have in place at the mo can be viewed here. If you look to the far right of each resource you will see the rating after a certain no. of votes. This doesn't look particuarly appealing, especially if a resource has not been rated yet.
The effect I would like to achive is similar to the one used at aspin.com where a graph is displayed varying in height dependant on the site rank.
I can easily get the numerical rating, i.e 9.75 after 15 votes say, but what is the easiest way to convert this to a simple gif file?
Ideally this needs to be written in CFML but I would be curious to see how it would be done in PHP. Although I don't know PHP from my elbow I should be able to adapt the code
Any ideas?
Mark Hensler posted this at 22:56 — 15th February 2002.
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You may want to think about having a set of gifs..
0.00.gif, 0.25.gif, 0.50.gif, 0.75.gif,
1.00.gif, 1.25.fig, 1.50.gif, 1.75.gif
etc. etc. etc.
9.00.gif, 9.25.gif, 9.50.gif, 9.75.gif,
10.00.gif
It'a be much easier on your server to just print the percentage in an![]()
tag.
That's probably how I would do it in PHP. The other option is to use a GD library, but that takes a bit more system resources. I only use GD when I need to make graphs (rather than simple bars). An example of a PHP/GD graph:
http://digitalart.org/artwork/artwork.php?ID=139&show_graph=1
http://digitalart.org/artwork/artwork.php?ID=126&show_graph=1
Mark Hensler
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openmind posted this at 19:26 — 16th February 2002.
He has: 945 posts
Joined: Aug 2001
Thnx Mark,
I've actually gone with the![]()
width idea where the width is the site rating 
Got it sorted though!!
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