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VOTItaly - Rebuild Joomla! Rating System
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The "VOTItaly" Plugin by JOOMItaly is the evolution of the default Joomla! voting/rating system. The plugin is an eye-candy "star rater", which uses AJAX technology to seemlessly process your visitor votes on your articles (content items) without reloading the page. It's probably the coolest way to add voting functionality to your Joomla! website.

This extensions is released for Joomla! 1.5.x and is published under GPLv2.

See the "VOTItaly" Plugin in action in our exclusive demo site HERE!

 

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Features

  • Mootools v1.11 compatible - It uses Joomla! core files
  • Ajax rating system
  • Possibility to choose what to show: stars, number of votes, average
  • Full customization of the stars description
  • No components required

 

Installation

You can install VOTItaly for Joomla! 1.5 in few steps, just go into the administrator panel and:

  • Select from the top menu: Extensions -> Install/Uninstall.
  • Click on Upload Package File button.
  • Select plg_ji_votitaly_v1.2_j1.5.zip from your local drive.
  • Click Upload & Install button.

VOTItaly is now installed. You can customize your new plugin accessing from: Extensions -> Plugin Manager, where it's listed as "Content - VOTItaly".

 

Usage Instruction

After you install the plugin using the "Joomla! Installer", go to Extensions -> Plugin Manager, where you need to

  • publish Content - VOTItaly (JOOMItaly)
  • unpublish Content - Rating

Now, enable rating on your contents or your menu to see it in action. That's it! Now visit your website and you will see that the voting (rating) system is enabled!

 

Plugin Uninstall

To completely remove the plugin, from your Joomla! 1.5 administration, you have to follow these two steps:

  • Extensions » Install/Uninstall » Plugin » check Content - VOTItaly (JOOMItaly) » Uninstall
  • Open your Database Control Panel and launch the following query: "DROP TABLE `jos_vi_rating`" (if necessary replace "jos" with your Joomla! 1.5 Database prefix)

 

Upgrade

To upgrade to the latest version please uninstall all previous versions of VOTItaly and install the new package.

 

Changelog

Version 1.2 (released on August 27th, 2009)

  • The plugin allow now to limit the rating submission to only registered users.
  • The plugin can accept periodical rating submissions from registered users (the interval is configurable in the plugin preferences).
  • New languages compatibility added (da-DK, el-GR, pt-BR, sv-SE).

Version 1.1 (released on January 6th, 2009)

  • The plugin makes now valid XHTML 1.1 content.
  • Full customizable content rating description.
  • Fixes an Internal Server Error (e500) problems with some servers.
  • New languages compatibility added (de-DE, es-ES, fa-IR, nl-NL, pl-PL, ru-RU, zh-CN, zh-TW).

Version 1.0 (released on July 01th, 2008)

  • First stable version of the "VOTItaly" Plugin released.

 

 

 

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written by info , September 22, 2008
would be great if its possible tha tonly members can comment.
right now people can comment useless posts and spam.

also would be great if and admin can approve comments first, before it will be posted to the website.
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written by dh , October 12, 2008
More star image option would be great smilies/wink.gif how can we create our own star image?
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written by cichy , January 21, 2009
Hi i Have one problem with this plugin, when i enable global rating in joomla votitaly doesn't work, but when i enable rating manually for some content everything it's ok. i don't understand this.
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written by Silvio Zennaro , January 21, 2009
You have to check your content section and category configuration, You probably force not to show stars in that configuration.. If you have more questions please post in the forum... smilies/wink.gif
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It doesn't work
written by banchow , January 23, 2009
I do as writen: ..." go to Extensions -> Plugin Manager, where you need to
* publish Content - VOTItaly (JOOMItaly)
* unpublish Content - Rating
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Than on every article put Article Rating Show, but there are no stars?

Where is mistake?

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written by Silvio Zennaro , January 23, 2009
@banchow: try to look at http://www.joomitaly.com/compo...d,618/#684
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nice system
written by Marc , January 28, 2009
The only thing I would improve is this:

A lot of Review sites (like for example mine, which review cds), would need a double rating system: One for the people to rate the cd, and one fix, that only the Admin can use. The admin stars should be in a different colour than the visitors votes. That would be a great improvement, but thanx anyway for the extension!
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written by Natouriano , February 21, 2009
Its really a great plugin and it works in a very nice way..

Just FYI and as a feedback to you, it seems there is a conflict between VOTItaly and JoomlaComment smilies/cry.gif since it did not work on my website after JoomlaComment was installed and active.


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Ratings at the bottom of articles
written by Nicolai , March 06, 2009
Thank you for a great plugin smilies/smiley.gif

Is it possible to get the stars to appear at the bottom instead of the top??
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written by Lorinc , March 12, 2009
I'd like too if it'd be possible to change the position to the bottom of article.
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universal playground
written by flaco , March 24, 2009
Just two notices.
1) This module seems to conflict in articles with universal playground flickr plugin (Stars drawn, but I can't register vote).
2) If I open image in lightbox, stars remain in foreground...

Firefox 3.0.7
Bye
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written by timm , May 07, 2009
Hello, I have one question:
does ajaxifying your joomla template improves performance in any way? I mean if it reduces bandwidth use by not-loading-whole-page, just the needed element. Or is it just user experience that is improved, and the transfered data amount is the same? Thanks in advance!
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Voting Doesn't Register
written by Lost Lion , July 26, 2009
This was simple to install and looks great on the page. But when I click to vote it just keeps 'updating' forever and votes are not added. I checked the support forum and found that someone else posted about the same problem almost 4 weeks ago and has not received a single reply although he helpfully included a pic of the problem. Rather than post a "me too" type post to the forum, I've decided to look elsewhere for my needs. I've linked to my website if anyone is interested in seeing the problem, or if I can't get it fixed, the solution that I decided to use instead.

I also noticed a post in the forum where someone complained that voters could vote more than once if someone else voted in between the time that they last voted. A solution to include a bunch of html code was posted, but as far as I can see, this updated feature never made it into an update of this module. It looks like this module has a lot of potential, but poor support. That's quite sad since the front end/ back end demo was one of the best demos I've seen, allowing us to take it for a thorough test drive.
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written by AlvynK , September 19, 2009
The plugin just does not work! J1.5.14 php 5.25
I installed and uninstalled 6 times, still can't get this to work. Checked my phpmyadmin and did not find any "jos_vi_rating" table in my sql. Could that be the problem? Any assistance will be much appreciated.

Stars appeared only in some articles but not others (which they are from the same categories and sections which I selected to appear). After clicking on the stars, it just did not register the vote. Guess it had no "jos_vi_rating" to store the data.

If I create manually the table of "jos_vi_rating", will it help? I just did not know what parameter to set for that table coz I am not familiar with programming, may be just a little nit of self learned experience.

Please help! Thanks in advance.
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written by PeO , September 27, 2009
Ciao, ho lo stesso problema di
"Voting Doesn't Register
written by Lost Lion , July 26, 2009


e non riesco a trovare soluzione, qualche novità??
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written by Silvio Zennaro , September 28, 2009
In the VOTItaly administration panel check the field "Check DB Table" to be set to "Yes". Then submit a vote in frontend. Then you can switch to "No" that field in administration.

Note that to work properly, your joomla database user need to own CREATE TABLE privileges.
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written by Alvyn , October 01, 2009
It seems like no answer been given to whether the rating start can appear at the bottom of article instead of the top. So, can it be done on both "top & bottom", when come to long article, you do not want the reader to come back up again to vote?
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written by François , October 19, 2009
Hi !
This is a nice plugin and I like it !
My question : I develop a GNU/GPL component and want to have the possibility to use your plugin in it (with your license of course). But I can't include it in a component, just in an article/content...
Is-there a possibility to do it ? (what fonctions to call and how ?)
Can I have informations to help me ?
Thanks.
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written by programad , October 19, 2009
Hey, this is a GREAT extension. Now, the community just needs a TOP VOTItaly rated module.
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written by Mohammad , October 31, 2009
I am using this Great Plugin in my site, but recently i found that It does not WORK with Superfish Menusmilies/sad.gif


please help me. I need this Plugin smilies/sad.gif



BEst Regards.
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written by ivajlo yanakiev , November 26, 2009
Hello all,

I use this plugin and can share with you :

1. problem with upload forever is only releated to Internet explorer. It work for me in Mozilla.
2. You can put stars up or down. I can not recall but try order in plugin configuration !!!1


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written by ivajlo yanakiev , November 26, 2009
Any one !!!
how to translate status ?

I also need module for most reated artucle !!!!!
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written by timo1979 , November 27, 2009
This is a great plugin but it could be much better if it had a position option ( top or bottom of the article).smilies/grin.gif
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written by Herbert , December 07, 2009
"To upgrade to the latest version please uninstall all previous versions of VOTItaly and install the new package." Are all votings deleted then ??
Or are the votings safe ?
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written by Maciek , January 04, 2010
It doesn't work with MultiThumb plugin smilies/sad.gif
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written by NeoMod , February 14, 2010
Same problem as many users here, and similar to that one reported in many forums: after clicking on star to vote the system keep saying "Saving your vote.." but nothing appends! And also, in my database I can not find ant vi_rating table.
Developers, I beg your attention...could you please solve this bug? even because after installing VOTItaly and having this issu, if we want ot get back to standrd rating component we can not! Neither that one will work!!!

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written by NeoMod , February 14, 2010
FOR ALL OF THOSE HAVING PROBLEMS WITH THIS MODULE:

in particular, those reporting ( like me!!) problems when casting vote and Joomla beeing stuck on "Saving..." process: i finally managed to find a solution!
You must log-in into your site via FTP and then locate VOT Italy Plugin Files ( usually Joomla-->Plugins-->content. Here you will find a couple of files, while another file is in /joomla/plugins/content/ji_votitaly/js ).
One you located each file (*.php and *.js ) set proprietes to enable right of execution for anybody smilies/smiley.gif
Et voilà...plugin is now working!!!

MODERATORS PLEASE ACCEPT THIS COMMENT!! Since there are thousands of users working hard to find a solution!!!

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written by cbcbcb , February 16, 2010
....purtroppo ancora nulla. settato tutti i file su chmod 777 e poi su 755. Nulla da fare non funziona. Ma perchè nessuno dei moderatori ci da una mano???

....unfortunately nothing had been solved, i set chmod on 777 and then i try with 755. Nothing to do. Why moderators doesn't write to help us?


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written by Silvio Zennaro , February 16, 2010
To everyone is encountering problems with permissions, sometimes the chmod command does not resolve it.
However this is not a VOTItaly problem and for that the JOOMItaly staff can't help you.

Please ask to your hosting provider to resolve that problem.
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written by ivn , February 20, 2010
Plugin bellissimo e funziona molto bene!
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written by aquarelle , March 03, 2010
how can Y change to spanish?
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written by Haris , March 06, 2010
Ins't supported this plugin for IE6? It has a grey box around the stars.. Can you inform me plz?

Thank you very much..
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written by Dhaval , March 15, 2010
How can I reset the rating ....????

Plz some body help me.... smilies/sad.gif
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written by Silvio Zennaro , March 22, 2010
To everybody is looking for help with VOTItaly we've just re-opened our forum. smilies/wink.gif
To anyone needs help with JMovies please use our customer support ticket system instead.

In any case you can start from the JOOMITALY SUPPORT PAGE
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written by Rob , May 17, 2010
Find this a great plugin! Only thing I would like to see is that you have the option to show 0 stars if an article has no votes yet. I have articles layed out in such a way that I have to vote for a article myself at least once for the layout to be correct. This is truly a great addon though!
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written by Guest , May 20, 2010
For people that want the plugin at the bottom of the Articles go to and edit
/plugins/content/ji_votitaly.php

Edit line 15 that says $mainframe->registerEvent( 'onBeforeDisplayContent', 'plgVotitaly' );

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$mainframe->registerEvent( 'onAfterDisplayContent', 'plgVotitaly' );


Happy times! smilies/grin.gif
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written by SkyRocket , June 01, 2010
that worked a treat - thanks 'Guest'. Thanks also to JOOMItaly for the VOTItaly plugin - best I've tried yet for Joomla 1.5 smilies/smiley.gif
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written by djepy , June 14, 2010
Very nice plugin. Unfortunately, seems to be conflicting with Simple Image Gallery, which I'm using on my site. Still looking for a fix, but I'm afraid I will have to make a choice between those 2 plugins...
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written by arts , January 04, 2011
I have a problem: can not disable the selected articles by rating, already tried everything. Help.
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