How to create nice looking ranking system?

[auriaks]

Hi,
I have some files, and want them to be ranked by users... How I can do something like in this site? HERE

There you can see stars, blue line and how many votes... Something like that would fit my needs Thanks

[Nile]

What I would do is have a database looking like this:

And then, say since there are 4 votes for poll #1, I would get everyone that has 1 [true or yes], and do [number of votes for yes] * 100 / total votes, then have a div thats 100px and every percent counts as 1 px. So:
1: 50% ( 2 * 100 / 4 = 50)
2: 50% ( 1 * 100 / 2 = 50)

If you don't understand I can make you an example, also for the stars that would be 2.5 stars / 5 because:
1: 50% ( 2 * 100 / 4 = 50), 2.5 stars ( 5 * 2 / 4 )
2: 50% ( 1 * 100 / 2 = 50), 2.5 stars ( 5 * 1 / 2 )

[auriaks]

Thanks, that is a good idea...

[Nile]

Need help, or do you completely understand?

[auriaks]

I understood it nicely But it looks like in the page stars are divided into 5 stars... its javascript or what?

[Nile]

Oh - the hover effect? Yes... this is javascript. I find this very cool: http://www.nickstakenburg.com/projects/starbox/ But it uses prototype. Search around google vote rating star scripts or something like that

[auriaks]

whats the difference with prototype?

[auriaks]

Maybe there is a way to do it without the prototype?