I personally prefer voting mechanisms that display how many votes have
been cast. If you keep the thumbs_up separate from thumbs_down, you can
figure the total number of votes. Otherwise, you will not be able to
know whether the author is *really* average or just never voted for.
Steven J. Walker
Walker Effects
www.walkereffects.com
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On Saturday, February 23, 2002, at 11:45 AM, Erik Price wrote:
On Saturday, February 23, 2002, at 02:42 PM, Nick Wilson wrote:
I'd like to add a simple 'thumbs up, thumbs down' vote mechanism to it.
The (simplified) table looks like this:
id | authId | title | tip
The only way I've come up with so far is to add two more fields
(thumbs_up and thumbs_down). Then
each time someone votes...
get the current value of the field (say thumbs_up)
use php to increment it's value and
pop it back in the db.
What if you made the field a signed INT field, and used PHP to subtract
one from the current value of the field every time someone chose
thumbs down or add one to the current value of the field every time
someone chose thumbs up. This way you could have a level of how
well the author stacks up.
This is just another idea shooting the moon, the truth is that it would
probably be fine either way. A matter of personal preference.
Erik
Erik Price
Web Developer Temp
Media Lab, H.H. Brown
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