I am trying to create a visual representation of a user rating from 1 to 5 (including .5 values) in the form of stars and half-stars. I have already created the array of user ratings from the MySQL database, I have averaged those values to create an average user rating in the form of a number. What I would like to do is take this value..
$averageuserrating
And if that value is "1", then return this code once
echo '<img src="images/star.png" class="ratingstar" />';
If $averageuserrating is 1.5, then this code will be returned
<img src="images/star.png" class="ratingstar" /><img src="images/halfstar.png" class="ratingstar" />
And so on... Is there a way to do this without 10 nested if statements?
It can be done by something like this:
$fullStar = '<img src="images/star.png" class="ratingstar" />';
$halfStar = '<img src="images/halfstar.png" class="ratingstar" />';
$rating = 1.5;
while($rating > 0){
if($rating >= 1){
echo $fullStar;
$rating = $rating - 1;
continue;
}
if($rating >= 0.5){
echo $halfStar;
$rating = $rating - 0.5;
}
}
On a side note, this is not the best way to display a rating system.
You could use switch statement.
switch($value){
case "1";
echo '<img src="images/star1.png" class="ratingstar" />';
break;
case "1";
echo '<img src="images/star2.png" class="ratingstar" />';
break;
so on and so forth..
}
for($i = 1; $i <= floor($averageuserrating); $i++)
echo '<img src="images/star.png" class="ratingstar" />';
if($averageuserrating > floor($averageuserrating))
echo '<img src="images/halfstar.png" class="ratingstar" />';
Note: If you have averages not only incremented by 0.5, but for example you can get 1.4: Change the second condition to:
if($averageuserrating >= (floor($averageuserrating) + 0.5))
Just use str_repeat
function and a bit mathematics.
$full_star = '<img src="images/star.png" class="ratingstar" />';
$half_star = '<img src="images/halfstar.png" class="ratingstar" />';
echo str_repeat( $full_star, floor($averageuserrating) );
if(! is_int($averageuserrating) ){
echo $half_star;
}
I think it will work fine.
Here is the code for a possible solution:
$numWholeStars = (int)$averageuserrating;
$numHalfStars = $averageuserrating - (int)$averageuserrating;
for($i = 0; $i < $numWholeStars; $i++) {
echo '<img src="images/star.png" class="ratingstar" />';
}
if($numHalfStars != 0) {
echo '<img src="images/halfstar.png" class="ratingstar" />';
}
Sounds like you need to re-factor your underlying code to a) gather all the ratings b) show how many stars the rating should display. Firstly see php math - modulus
get_user_ratings($user="bob")
{
15 - the user ratings should/could be in 1 place (int)users.total_ratings
// lets say there are 15 records similar to the one below
jim, 1, bob
...
mary, 1.5, bob
// calculate the average of all votes
...
...
/* If your rating system offers the chance to rate a user 1.5 stars
use modulus to check if the rating needs half stars */
$stars = "";
if( $averageuserrating % 1 == 0)
{
for(
i=0;
i<$averageuserrating-1;
$i++;$stars .= '<img src="images/star.png" class="ratingstar" />';
)
return $stars;
}
else
{
for(
i=0;
i<$averageuserrating-1;
$i++;$stars .='<img src="images/star.png" class="ratingstar" />'
)
$stars .= '<img src="images/halfstar.png" class="ratingstar" />';
return $stars;
}
}
$fullstar = '<img src="images/star.png" class="ratingstar" />';
$halfstar = '<img src="images/halfstar.png" class="ratingstar" />';
$value=2.5;//some rating
$number = number_format ( $value, 1 );
$fs = floor ( $number ); //full stars
$hs=(($value*10)%10)/5; //half stars
while($fs>0)
{
echo $fullstar;
$fs=$fs-1;
}
if($hs==1)
echo $halfstar;