Is there any way to create a rating system?

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1

Can Cockpit do this? I’m thinking about a system that user can click on star or thumbs button and this is sent to backend. When another user load the page, the rating code shows the new rating.

2

Yes. create a collection "ratings" with a rating field (text field).

Also install the custom “Moderation” addon if you want an admin to moderate before a rating is published. In that case, 1) add a "published" field to the ratings collection with fieldtype “moderation” and 2) add the following to /addons/Moderation/bootstrap.php in order to make sure that the field never can be set to published without moderation:

// Include actions.
if (COCKPIT_API_REQUEST) {
  // continue logic.
  include_once __DIR__ . '/actions.php';
  // force the Draft status when posted by API:
  $app->on('collections.save.before.ratings', function($name, &$entry, $isUpdate) {
    $entry['published'] = 'Draft';
  });
}

Create an additional user i.e. “api-rating” in the cockpit user accounts. Add a new users group in config.yaml, call the group i.e. “apipostcalls”. Make sure to add this user to the “apipostcalls” group in the user accounts --> user (api-rating) --> groups on the right side. Also, copy the APITOKEN from this user.

Now, go to the permissions tab on the collections settings (collections --> edit). There you see the newly created group and have to activate "create entries" on this group.

You can create new entries with a POST call, i.e. with axios:

    axios
      .post(
        "/api/collections/save/ratings?token=ADDYOURAPIRATINGUSERTOKENHERE",
        {
          headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json" },
          data: {
            name: this.name,
            rating: 5,
            published: "Draft"
          }
        }
      )
      .then( response => {
        console.log(response)
      })
3

Thank you for your help!
I forgot to ask. Is it possible to limit how many times a user can vote on each product? What I mean is a way to use click once and it’s done. Maybe with cookie or ip?