Extra Vote Plugin

Extra Vote not only provides the ajax five-star rating feature to your Joomla 1.5 content, but it allows you to insert those beautiful voting stars anywhere else inside of your article independently, so your users can rate specific parts of it, just by adding {extravote 1}, {extravote 2}, {extravote 3}, etc, in order to id every piece of content you want people to rate.

Version updates:

• 1.2: New {mainvote} code to also show the main content rating inside of your article. Show/Hide counter option.
• 1.3: Possibility to allow only registered users to vote.

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byshlajfka on October 18, 2009
Not always counts votes.. many user complain that votes does not render propperly. It gives them report, that they are not registered, that alredy voted (but not) .. where is the problem???
I had no trouble installing and activating this nifty little plugin on Joomla 1.5.13.

Works as it says it will work, and the AJAX voting display looks really nice!
byDizzo on August 12, 2009
This rating system has much promise, but the developer must be waiting on more donations before he answers simple problem questions.

The extra vote rater will not score votes for anything and the developer just goes along ignoring many peoples request to answer why.

He would get more donations if he just put the time in to give a breif answer, explanation or even an I dont know for an answer.

I am pretty experienced with this Joomla thing and this is the first time I have actually gotten frustrated with a developer?
the extension works like expected but I really have to point out that the developer is obviously very unfriendly and does not care a rotten nut about inputs or questions about his extension. on the forum there are unsolved questions asked sometimes from more than 6 people but the developer, even if online, does not answer them constantly. i did not participate on the forum because all the questions i had were already stated multitimes without an answer. the extension also opens doors, like the core rating does too, for voting abuse since only the last ip is stored and checked. unfortunately this question for improvement was asked from more than 8 persons but never get an answer. so if you don't like arrogant and ignorant support when you'r stranded, you might chose another extension.
bymike on July 23, 2009
This appears to work great and is up and running quite fast. At first, it did not appear to do anything, as mentioned in a comment before.

It turned out that 'comments' should be enabled of course in the content preferences before the plugin is shown!
byDr.Net on July 10, 2009
Wonderful Plugin,

Work perfectly and rating by/per IP address.
I was trying to check with IE and Firefox but it's not taking.
It's real time rating plugin :-)
thanks for the good thing :)
byalmamun on June 27, 2009
Very nice voting plugin. Easy in function & nice in look. If you are looking for an article voting ext, you're in the right page.
byMoo on June 4, 2009
All I can say about this plugin:
G R E A T!!!!

It's absolutely fantastic, it works well and everything is easy to setup. The plugin looks like the one from YouTube, but I like this one more!

If you are looking for a voting plugin, don't look any further! This one you need!
bydr_dream on January 7, 2009
Works great, thank you very much and keep up the good work !

But can someone tell me how to put the Vote Counter on the right side of the stars ?
Having the Vote Counter below the stars takes a lot of space.
Hi,

I run a charity site and we wanted a simple voting system where people invovled could rate various activities. This fitted the bill perfectly!

Thanks :)

Dave.
byMadCoder on November 7, 2008
You honestly can't get any simpler than this plugin.
Installation was simple(as it should be) and simply adding
{mainvote} to my selected articles all it took.

This is a MUST have!
i was surprised with this plugin. I never thought this kind of voting system would show-up here in extension site as i have never seen sub-rating (rating/s within articles) :)
thanks a lot buddy
bypacificwalter on October 16, 2008
This little extra is very simple, very practical and very useful. It does the job simply and well.

I'm impressed that a lot of these best codes (or scripts or whatever) are free, and I'm grateful to these folks who contribute products like this.
This is really an excellent plugin.Great Looks, Great Work, No bugs, Great Support. All these for free! Great.

I asked the author if he can help me add more functionality to the plugin. I wasn't expecting reply but to my surprise in 1 day I received plugin ready with the custom functionality.

Many thanks to author.
byoavs on August 25, 2008
Great work. Thanks for the plugin. It works!!!
bykorb on August 24, 2008
This plugin is excelent!

But, it should make it possible to be called in another web applications like VirtueMart, because VirtueMart supports content plugins.

Thanks
I was precisely for this kind of plugin.
The only problem is that it conflicts with existing CSS stylesheets, at least on the theme I am using (RocketTheme Versality III for Joomla 1.5).

Tried to hack the component to fix it, but without any success.
How nice I finally find a vote plugin that works in both firefox and ie7 and in the template that I use for joomla 1.5 (let's forget about joomla 1.0 now c'mon guys!).
Just one thing though about all these voting systems, how to you rate "zero" stars? that's the only thing I would like to see.
The addition of the rating of specific parts within an article is very nice too.
Good work thanks