1) No, that's an essential part of the install, to keep the x-cart database connection alive.
2) Can you reproduce your issue on my
demo ?
3) It's possible to display ratings on the same product page with a nifty bit of jQuery, see the
demo
Eg. in skin/common_files/customer/main/product_details.tpl
Before...
Code:
{if $active_modules.Extra_Fields}
{include file="modules/Extra_Fields/product.tpl"}
{/if}
Insert...
Code:
<tr>
<td class="property-name">Rating</td>
<td class="property-value" colspan="2"><div class="comments_rating"></div></td>
</tr>
Then at the end of the template insert...
Code:
{literal}
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
var c_rating = $("div.average_rating_block").html();
$("div.comments_rating").html(c_rating);
});
</script>
{/literal}
To display ratings on other pages would be more complex, maybe ask on the
forum. I tried
this post, but couldn't get it working.