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@NogDogAug 22.2018 — #Do you already have something in place for user login/authentication along with other, non-rating aspects of the site, or is the whole thing still in the works? If the former, it might be easier to add a DB table or two and some code to implement the rating system, rather than trying to shoehorn a 3rd-party rating tool into your existing app. If, on the other hand, the whole site/application is still in the planning phase, then maybe it makes sense to see if there is already some sort of user rating app out there on top of which you can build your site -- but offhand I don't know of any. (But then I work on a medical provider review/rating application at my day job, so I haven't had any reason to look for anything else. ? )@NogDogAug 23.2018 — #If I were doing it, based on my experience/knowledge, I suspect I'd end up looking for a CMS of some sort that provided the general overall site functionality, and then manually create the ratings part of it (assuming the chose CMS did not already have that). The rating part would likely be one DB table with the user_id of the rater, the user_id of the user being rated, the rating number, and perhaps a comment field. There would be a unique key across the two user_id columns to enforce a user only reviewing another user once, and application code checks to confirm that the user doing the rating is not the same type of user as the one being rated. (A join on the user table could be done when fetching reviews if you want to get them for one type of user or the other.)
Sorry...rambling a bit, but not knowing your technical level, no idea if that makes any sense, or is just "blah blah blah blah blah". ?
Rating system
I need a rating system. Let me explain. I need to allow users the ability to create two different types of accounts service providers and service users. I need the ability for both parties to able to interact with each other and rate their experience in interacting with the other. Is there something like that already exists partially or do I have to create everything from scratch?
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@NogDogAug 22.2018 — #Do you already have something in place for user login/authentication along with other, non-rating aspects of the site, or is the whole thing still in the works? If the former, it might be easier to add a DB table or two and some code to implement the rating system, rather than trying to shoehorn a 3rd-party rating tool into your existing app. If, on the other hand, the whole site/application is still in the planning phase, then maybe it makes sense to see if there is already some sort of user rating app out there on top of which you can build your site -- but offhand I don't know of any. (But then I work on a medical provider review/rating application at my day job, so I haven't had any reason to look for anything else. ? )0
@NogDogAug 23.2018 — #If I were doing it, based on my experience/knowledge, I suspect I'd end up looking for a CMS of some sort that provided the general overall site functionality, and then manually create the ratings part of it (assuming the chose CMS did not already have that). The rating part would likely be one DB table with the user_id of the rater, the user_id of the user being rated, the rating number, and perhaps a comment field. There would be a unique key across the two user_id columns to enforce a user only reviewing another user once, and application code checks to confirm that the user doing the rating is not the same type of user as the one being rated. (A join on the user table could be done when fetching reviews if you want to get them for one type of user or the other.)Sorry...rambling a bit, but not knowing your technical level, no idea if that makes any sense, or is just "blah blah blah blah blah". ?