tigralt / ezrating

A simple and fast implemented Symfony bundle for user rating management

EZRating

A light bundle for implementing user rating in a Symfony application.

Install

In the console use the command

composer require tigralt/ezratingbundle

Or in your composer.json add the requirement

"require": {
    "tigralt/ezratingbundle": "dev-master"
}

Then register the bundle in your AppKernel

public function registerBundles()
{
    ...
    $bundles = array(
        ...
        new Tigralt\EZRatingBundle\EZRatingBundle(),
    );
    ...
    return $bundles;
}

Information

The rating architecture is divided in two objects:

• The rating thread
• The user rating

A rating thread is a type of rating. For example: An user is rated on his activity, then a rating thread named "Activity" will be created to contain all rating about "Activity". A user rating is the rating from an user.

Data

Rating thread:

• Name
• Associated ratings

Rating:

• UserID
• Rating
• Comment
• Metadata

---

The metadata in the rating is an array that can support any type of data.

Usage

In order to use the rating bundle, you have to call the rating manager in your controller

$rating_manager = $this->get("ezrating.manager");

Add rating thread

$rating_manager->addRatingThread("TheRatingThreadName");

Add rating

$rating_manager->addRating($thread_id, $user_id, $rating_number, "This is a comment", array("meta" => "data"));

Find all rating on a user

$ratings = $rating_manager->getAllFromUser($user_id);

Get all rating thread

$rating_threads = $rating_manager->getAllRatingThreads();