Do you know how Rating Scripts helps developers?
It basically allows website owners to understand their audience of their sites and the feedback to enhance their business.
Rating is the best way to build a long-term relationship with potential customers and improve revenue for your business. In this article, I have collected some of the PHP scripts that will aid your development jobs and make your work smooth enough.
Following scripts will gear up your visitor’s mood and let them stay on the website!
So, let us begin:
Ajax-PHP Star Rating Scripts – Add star ratings to website content
It is a rating system with 5, 7 or 10 stars to rate messages, articles, videos, games or any element in pages of your website. This star rating script is made of Ajax and PHP with OOP (Object Oriented Programming) concepts which can be written in either in a .html file or .php file.
Why use it?
The rating data can be saved in TXT files on the server, or in a MySQL database. You can use the script to add a rating system to one or more elements in a web page.
Product Highlights: Basically a Star Rating Script to allow logged users to rate.
SeeMeLikeMe – Allows voting website content
SeeMeLikeMe is a small and compact application that works with both static, as well as, dynamic data-driven content. It allows you to share insight data with your visitors or content publishers. It is important to note that it requires access to Google maps and charts API.
You can refer here to start with SeeMeLikeMe.
Why use it?
One of the most effective features is geo-location map to show where traffic is coming from and track the number of visitors. Adding to this, it can track votes by IP or PHP user session.
Product Highlights: It is a small and compact application that allows you to give your users the chance to vote on the content on your site.
PHP A/B Testing –Organize A/B Test on your Website
PHP A/B Testing is a free PHP script that allows you to structure A/B tests on your website so swiftly. The script can be run in test mode to discover out if the discrepancies are functioning fully and, if it is, can be transferred to live mode.
Why use it?
It influences your customers by incorporating Google Analytics taking test deeper and effective. This script can run the test to discover out the variation.
Product Highlights: A high-performance script to simply test anything and allow Google Analytics integration.
Minty Ajax Ratings-Fast Script to add ratings
This script works with or without My SQL database. If you wish, you can customize it with simple CSS. It records the ratings submitted by the user.
Why use it?
It is very simple to use with a clean interface. Being effectively fast in remembering ratings it is very much considered for your website. Using this script, adding a rating to the page is as simple as adding the tiny HTML snippet.
Product Highlights: It registers the ratings without refreshing the page.
Commentics- Designed to get Integrated into your Website Pages
It is a free and professionally written open source code with multiple features such as integrable, secure and customizable. It serves as the best choice to deliver fresh and relevant content to your visitors keeping search engines interested.
Why use it?
The scripts have numerous safety features like captcha or swear/spam and anti-flooding filters. You can use it on your articles or even as standalone comments page. Till date, it has been an ideal choice for developers.
Product Highlights: Being very secure and scalable to use it is easily integrated into website pages.
PHP Poll Script
PHP Poll Script to create multiple-choice polling questions with one or more possible answers, schedule polls, limit votes and customize poll appearance. You can manage polls and options through an easy administration page.
Why use it?
It depends on voting statistics and also prevents spam votes. With a single PHP Poll Script installation, you can create as many online polls as you want and embed them into your website. Moreover, it is very easy to install and handle.
Product Highlights: It comes in multiple languages and smart polling schedules.
Advance Rating System-Star rating scripts with 5 main shapes
This script uses PHP, MySQL, and CSS3 and is completely AJAX based without any reloads. You can display ratings using 5 random shapes (star, heart, sun, circle, and crown) 8 colors and 3 sizes (with PSD files). The most uncommon feature is Cookie or IP protection.
Why use it?
It has multiple browser compatibilities (Google Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Opera, and Internet Explorer) with IP protection and rate tracking.
Product Highlights: It comprises of single line code with social media integration and language control.
ThumbsUp –Lists the top item with PHP voting script
In Thumbs there is an admin area with six templates and a separate config.php file. ThumbsUp stores everything it needs in two tables: “thumbsup_items” and “thumbsup_votes”. A developer will need PHP5 OOP code concepts with PDO and a database (MySQL or SQLite).
Why use it?
One can easily install ThumbsUp and set up with a database as it seems comfortable to use. It is very flexible Php voting script that allows visitors to vote for anything you want on your website.
Product Highlights: It has a functionality of IP and User ID check, Sorting Items, and Custom Result Formats
Closing Note
To my humble opinion, the above given is the best-picked bunch of PHP Rating Scripts. Feel free to get some of these and go ahead to add scripts to your website.
Do let me know in the comment section below in case of any queries or to add something new to the list.
Till then stay tuned for some more stuff such as one.
Go easy with scripting!
Thanks for reading.☺
Author Bio:
Anil Parmar is the co-founder of Glorywebs that aims to help clients with PHP web development services, mobile app design & development, digital marketing etc. Websites we develop have a common # 1 goal: Keep it as simple as possible for technical as well as non-tech geeks. Find him on Twitter @abparmar99 & say Hi!
