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Spry Ratings Widget

Posted At : February 29, 2008 10:10 AM | Posted By : Gary Gilbert
Related Categories: Spry,Coldfusion

The release of Spry 1.6.1 didn't ensure the continued support for Adobe AIR but also came with a new widget called the ratings widget.

A little Ajax widget with some potential to be entirely over-used at least by me. As with most Spry widgets its ridiculously easy to use and setup. But not wanting to stop there I decided to create a custom component that would make it even easier oh and hook into a database to save the results (mySql only at this point).

I still need to clean up the code a little bit and add a few more features, but will put it up on RIAForge when it's prettier and documented :).

Currently to create a Spry Rating Widget you need one line of code:

<cfoutput>#createobject("component","rating").newWidget('ratingwidget','Rate this Post!',5,'../assets/js/','../assets/css/')#</cfoutput>

Resulting in widget that looks like:

The function header looks like this:

I decided to make the path to the Spry CSS and JS as separate arguments to provide the most flexibility in directory structure. The argument list will probably grow a little bit more as I add a few more features but those will probably become optional parameters.

Happy coding...