Solspace Rating stars alternative output

Question

I'm trying to find out if there's a way to output alternative markup for the {stars_overall_avg} and the {stars}{rating}{/stars} rating tags.

Instead of the images, I'd like it to output a set of tags I can hang classes from.

Cheers Brendan

Answer 1

It's possible to ignore the built-in {stars} and {starts_overall_avg} tags and just output the numbers using the {rating} and {overall_avg} tags instead.

This allows you to do some clever things such as add variable class names to elements depending on the rating. Your CSS can then use these class names to alter the display of the data. For example:

<p class="star-{rating} rating">{rating}</p>

You can now use the CSS class to affect how the number is displayed by showing images other than stars and hiding the rating number using CSS text replacement techniques if desired.

Answer 2

You would probably have to hack mod.rating.php to make that happen. search for stars_avg_rating I don't think this would be a small undertaking.