﻿/*
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| Dynamic Star Forum Thread Ratings for PHP-Fusion 7
+-----------------------------------------+
+-----------------------------------------+
| Copyright © Fangree Productions  2010
| Developers: Fangree_Craig
| Web: www.fangree.co.uk
| Email: admin@fangree.co.uk
|-----------------------------------------+
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|    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify        |
|    it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as              |
|    published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the          |
|    License, or (at your option) any later version.                             |
|                                                                                |
|    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,             |
|    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of              |
|    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the               |
|    GNU Affero General Public License for more details.                         |
|                                                                                |
|   You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License     |
|    along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.       |
|                                                                                |
==================================================================================
|-----------------------------------------+
| PHP-Fusion
| Copyright © 2002 - 2010 Nick Jones
| http://www.php-fusion.co.uk/
|-----------------------------------------+
*/


GENERAL:
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The Dynamic Star Forum Thread Ratings gives users the ability to Rate forum threads on a 1 -5 star basis.

Features
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- Non-obtrusive (works with javascript disabled)
- Does not allow multiple ratings – checks against IP and cookies
- Tested in IE 6, IE 7, Firefox 2.x, Opera and Safari & Google Chrome
- Places Rating bar in the top of view thread
- Pre-loads all images
- Easily style text and colours using the stylesheet
- Precise rating to a 2 decimal place
- Checks not only against IP upon rating but also a cookie check
- Shows Total Number of ratings
- Shows Avarage rating in view forum


MODIFICATION OF CORE FILES
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PHP-Fusion Core Files that are modified are

forum/viewforum.php
forum/viewthread.php


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!!!ATTENTION!!! !!!IMPORTANT!!!

!!BACKUP forum/viewforum.php AND forum/viewthread.php !!!
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You can choose to upload and overwrite the two files with the ones included in the download or you can modify the files by yourself.

If you choose modify the files yourself copy the code from the 2 included files in the download. 


The code is highlighted to make it easy to find look for...

// Dynamic Star  Forum Thread Ratings for PHP-Fusion 7 by  Fangree Productions Mod Begin

AND

// Dynamic Star  Forum Thread Ratings for PHP-Fusion 7 by  Fangree Productions Mod End

Inbetween Mod Begin and Mod End is the modified code.



INSTALL INSTRUCTIONS:
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1. Upload all files in the files folder to your sites root.
3. Done

		
SUPPORT
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http://www.fangree.co.uk


CHANGLOG
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v1.00 - first Public Release