It is possible, a bit of PHP experience will come in handy, though. Check out this page: http://www.geertdedeckere.be/shop/thumbsup/help#sorting-and-filtering-items

the dif var name is there to avoid randomizing in my list, the echo’d outputs are the same.

I just tried it myself and the ajax voting on the bottom ones seem to work fine. Did you fix it already?

idk what happened but you are correct it works =)

Answered my own question. Problem solved.

Alright, well done.

Hmm, I’ve never spotted that before, weird. I don’t know what is going on there, something with opacity, really strange…

Nothing special should be needed to make it work on Chrome mobile. Your setup looks fine. One thing I do notice, though, is that you are loading two different versions of jQuery. That should be avoided, just use one.

Thanks for the tip. I made the change to only load jquery once. I’m still not sure why the voting button isn’t working with Chrome. If you happen to think of anything that would help let me know. Thanks again for your help.

Okay, well done. As for new button designs, feel free to tweak the images or CSS for your own site design.

One more question and I’m out of your hair. I’m using the ‘thumbs_up’ template and for some reason, the count is left aligned inside the template. I’m sure it’s being overriden by my css, but not sure how to fix it. css isn’t my strong suite. I know this is more of a css question, but any help would be much appreciated.

As you said, probably a CSS conflict with the styles from your site. Easiest way to debug is to use a web inspector tool, like Firebug. Hard to tell what to change exactly without looking at the actual site.

The answer to both questions is “yes”, but I replied to your email already with a bit more explanation. Thanks.

Probably the include path that is wrong. Try different relative paths (depends on your directory setup):

include '../thumbsup/init.php';
include '../../thumbsup/init.php';
include '../../../thumbsup/init.php';

Thanks it works

First of all, you must use the ThumbsUp script in a PHP file, it will not work otherwise. So, use .php as the file extension instead of .html. The rest of your setup looks fine, from what I can see from the code you posted.

I got it to work. I have an issue with the admin page though. http://mymagspread.com/thumbsup/admin

username:demo password:demo

Unable to delete or edit and save. Brings up window “error”

You need to add “www” to the URL because that’s how you configured it.

One more question. I know my way around html code (but I’m not a programmer) and from the look of the install instructions, I’m sure I could get this set up no problem. Just curious about adding thumbs up items. I add pictures to my site daily so I would be adding thumbs up items daily. My question is, when I add a line of code for a new thumbs up item and give it a unique name, do I need to go into the database and add that name, or is it added automatically?

ThumbsUp items are added automatically if they don’t exist yet, just make sure you use a unique item name for each photo.

As for performance, vote count will need to be looked up in the database for each item, using a quick query. The script and styles only need to be loaded once regardless of the number of ThumbsUp items on the page. I remember a buyer who created thousands of ThumbsUp items without problem (can’t find his comment anymore, though). Anyway, ThumbsUp should be able to scale okay.

Hey, thanks for showing. Well implemented in the layout. Thumbs up!

You can access the properties of a ThumbsUp item object directly, if that is what you’re asking:

echo ThumbsUp::item('name')->votes_up;
echo ThumbsUp::item('name')->votes_down;
echo ThumbsUp::item('name')->votes_total;

Hello Thanks i’ll try then.

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Hello

Works great ! thanks

You need to use a single (sub)domain, Andrew, either with or without “www”: http://davidwalsh.name/no-www

Thanks for the prompt reply. Ok got that sorted but have lost the CSS. I’ll keep plodding away but if there is a quick fix I’d much appreciate a pointer in the right direction.

Many thanks Andrew

Not to worry – all sorted. Someone had set the General Settings in Wordpress to be www. Once I get rid of that, it all worked perfectly. It’s been a few days work, but I got there in the end. I wonder if I even need the rewrite in .htaccess now? Enough for now anyways… Happy days!!!

Sorry, doesn’t look like I received your email. Please, mail again.

Just sent it again via your profile page. Thank you.

Hmm, really sorry, but I didn’t receive your mail. I checked my spam folder too. I tried the contact form myself as well, and that mail did arrive. Weird. Just try geert [at] idoe [dot] be directly.

I have no experience with Laravel but I guess it shouldn’t be too hard. You just need to include the ThumbsUp classes via its init.php file.

Maybe this helps: http://forums.laravel.io/viewtopic.php?id=3130

You can use it with WordPress and in the WP loop. The key is to use unique ThumbsUp item names. You can easily use the post ID, for example, to generate these names.

I’m not sure about WP super cache. The vote buttons should keep on working but the vote count may need to be refreshed from time to time if the HTML is cached.

The script is loaded once (javascript file, css file and a few images) regardless of how many items you use it for on a single page. A database query is needed to look up the current votes for each item.

Thanks, i assume then that as I’ll be posting multiple posts per day that the homepage/category pages will have their cache’s cleared and as a result will refresh the plugins rating counts?

Are examples/instructions on how to implement the Post ID for the ThumbsUP item names included within the plugin somewhere? If not, could you fire across a quick example for me to work with?

Thanks again, Paul

Concerning the caching, that’s how I guess it will work. Got me thinking though, after a user votes the vote count will be refreshed but when a user then refreshes the cached page it won’t be updated and the “user_voted” css class may not be added. Not that the user can vote again, but it may initially look like it since the button doesn’t have a disabled look. Contact me via email if you like to do some proper testing prior to buying.

Here’s a quick example of a dynamic ThumbsUp item name, which could go in the WP post loop:

echo ThumbsUp::item('post:'.$post->ID);

If you use unique ThumbsUp item names, say for each member, you can just this script as is. If you want to assign a certain rank to a user after he got a certain number of votes, you’ll need to add a small customization. I guess the code would go into the catch_vote() method of the script. Note that I provided ample comments throughout the ThumbsUp code. I don’t do customized installations on your server, though.

HI nevermind, found it.

Good job! In case others are wondering: it’s in thumbsup/config.php.

Hmm, you need to edit the thumbsup javascript file. Search for “error” and replace the string. Be sure to change the minified js file too.

Hmm, I fixed that but now have this no sure why

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'PDOException' with message 'SQLSTATEHY000 Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)' in /homez.734/xronn/www/thumbsup/classes/thumbsup.php:70 Stack trace: #0 /homez.734/xronn/www/thumbsup/classes/thumbsup.php(70): PDO->__construct('mysql:mysql51-8...', 'xronnblog', 'timmy12345', Array) #1 /homez.734/xronn/www/thumbsup/classes/thumbsup_item.php(121): ThumbsUp::db() #2 /homez.734/xronn/www/thumbsup/classes/thumbsup.php(214): ThumbsUp_Item::load('battlearena') #3 /homez.734/xronn/www/portfolio.php(92): ThumbsUp::item('battlearena') #4 {main} thrown in /homez.734/xronn/www/thumbsup/classes/thumbsup.php on line 70

Does the server have PDO installed with a MySQL driver? If in doubt, please ask your host. Thanks.