Star rating image

[unitedlocalbands]

I have been searching the web for a way to take an average number from my database and repersent it on a 5 star image.

For instance if a band on my website has an average rating of 3 then three stars will be yellow and the other two will remain gray.

Right now I'm trying to do it with just css.

Any suggestions would be great.

Thanks a bunch.

[Twey]

Er, CSS can't touch databases. You can fiddle with the images though (try having a pixel-sized element with background-repeat: repeat-x; and resizing it).

[djr33]

Putting that together with the database will work fine, too.
For example, http://php-mysql-tutorial.com

[unitedlocalbands]

Thanks for the responses.

I just found a css based star rating script at

http://komodomedia.com/blog/index.php/2006/01/09/css-star-rating-part-deux/


If works great, and its free. I use coldfusion to retrive data from mysql.

trying to get it to work right know, we'll see what happens.

here is the css and html,




<style type="text/css">
.star-rating,
.star-rating a:hover,
.star-rating a:active,
.star-rating a:focus,
.star-rating .current-rating{
background: url(../images/star_rating.gif) left -1000px repeat-x;
}
.star-rating{
position:relative;
width:125px;
height:25px;
overflow:hidden;
list-style:none;
margin:0;
padding:0;
background-position: left top;
}
.star-rating li{
display: inline;
}
.star-rating a,
.star-rating .current-rating{
position:absolute;
top:0;
left:0;
text-indent:-1000em;
height:25px;
line-height:25px;
outline:none;
overflow:hidden;
border: none;
}
.star-rating a:hover,
.star-rating a:active,
.star-rating a:focus{
background-position: left bottom;
}
.star-rating a.one-star{
width:20%;
z-index:6;
}
.star-rating a.two-stars{
width:40%;
z-index:5;
}
.star-rating a.three-stars{
width:60%;
z-index:4;
}
.star-rating a.four-stars{
width:80%;
z-index:3;
}
.star-rating a.five-stars{
width:100%;
z-index:2;
}
.star-rating .current-rating{
z-index:1;
background-position: left center;
}

/* for an inline rater */
.inline-rating{
display:-moz-inline-block;
display:-moz-inline-box;
display:inline-block;
vertical-align: middle;
}

/* smaller star */
.small-star{
width:50px;
height:10px;
}
.small-star,
.small-star a:hover,
.small-star a:active,
.small-star a:focus,
.small-star .current-rating{
background-image: url(../images/star_rating.gif);
line-height: 10px;
height: 10px;
}
</style>

<ul class='star-rating'>
<li class='current-rating'> style='width:105px;' Currently 3.5/5 Stars.</li>
<li><a href='#' title='1 star out of 5' class='one-star'>1</a></li>
<li><a href='#' title='2 stars out of 5' class='two-stars'>2</a></li>
<li><a href='#' title='3 stars out of 5' class='three-stars'>3</a></li>
<li><a href='#' title='4 stars out of 5' class='four-stars'>4</a></li>
<li><a href='#' title='5 stars out of 5' class='five-stars'>5</a></li>
</ul>

[vanbao]

Did you get this to work.

[jscheuer1]

There is a supposedly better method listed on that very page at this address:

http://komodomedia.com/blog/index.php/2007/01/20/css-star-rating-redux/

Doesn't work in Opera. In FF it works, but rating the next thing cancels any previous rating you made. I didn't even bother checking with IE.