I'm doing one litle project with JSP for topic Library. I want to create a rating system for books in library when end-user view detail of book and rating for this book. Can anyone give hints or tutorials how to go about this?
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A:
I'd suggest to use the jQuery Star Rating plugin for this. Check the demo page how it all look like. The JSP/HTML basically look like this (you only need to put the necessary JS/CSS/image files in the public webcontent). The magic is done by giving the radio buttons the class name star.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Star rating demo</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="jquery.rating.css">
<script src="jquery.js"></script>
<script src="jquery.rating.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<input name="star1" type="radio" class="star">
<input name="star1" type="radio" class="star">
<input name="star1" type="radio" class="star">
<input name="star1" type="radio" class="star">
<input name="star1" type="radio" class="star">
</body>
</html>
In the server side you just use HttpServletRequest#getParameterValues() to obtain multiple selections by given field name. To check the rating, just determine how many are been checked.
String[] star1 = request.getParameterValues("star1");
if (star1 != null) {
int rating = star1.length;
// ...
}
BalusC
2010-09-04 15:35:37