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We just upgraded to the latest version.

While we appreciate Jon continuing to develop this invaluable mod, we miss one of our requested features a while ago: Rating/Voting of articles.

But this is where Phil comes in with his Ajax Product Rating mod:http://www.xcartmods.co.uk/x-cart-ajax-product-rating-system.html

It is easy to integrate into xCMS:

If you want to display the rating feature on the Article List, add the code to the following template:
xcms_customer_display.tpl
{rating_bar id=$xcmsEntry.entryid}

If you want to display the rating feature on the article page, add the code to the following template:
xcms_customer_display_entries.tpl
{rating_bar id=$xcmsEntries[entry].entryid}

While Phil's mod is for xcart 4.1.x, it's easy to figure out how to make this work for 4.5.x

Note: Make sure you don't use Phil's mod for any other ratings, such as products ratings. Otherwise you will have to change the productID variable.

Caution: Googlebot and others are rating automatically. Haven't found out yet how to prevent this. Just like xcart out of the box, ratings are spammed.

We are now trying to figure out how to get google news snippets to pick up the article ratings... hope to post a solution in this thread once we find a solution... unless Jon jumps in