jQuery star rating problem with brackets []

If you used the star rating plugin of jQuery in cakePHP, you might experienced that the hover effects are not working properly. This is because one of the class name used to identify the buttons uses the radio button name. This will be a problem in cakephp because we use brackets in names.

<input type="radio" name="data[Model][field]" class="star" />

In order to fix that, we need to remove them. Here is quick fix. Open file

jquery.rating.js

:

from (line 97):

// grouping:
  var n = this.name;

to:

// grouping:
  var real_name = this.name;
  var n = real_name.replace(/[^A-Za-z0-9_\-]/g, '-'); // remove unwanted characters

from (line 108):

$.rating.groups[n].valueElem = $('<input type="hidden" name="' + n + '" value=""' + (settings.readOnly ? ' disabled="disabled"' : '') + '>');

to:

$.rating.groups[n].valueElem = $('<input type="hidden" name="' + real_name + '" value=""' + (settings.readOnly ? ' disabled="disabled"' : '') + '>');

I have reported this in the bugtracker and I hope it will be included in the next release.

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Tags: bug fixes, jQuery, star rating

by rachel CakePHP 1.2, Helpers Comments 3 Jul 28th, 2008

3 Responses to “jQuery star rating problem with brackets []”

1. links for 2008-07-29 « Richard@Home Says:
   July 29th, 2008 at 12:31 am [...] Promet CakePHP Source» Blog Archive » jQuery star rating problem with brackets [] Handy, I was about to implement this in a soon to be released project (tags: cakephp jquery star rating) Posted by Richard@Home Filed in 15 [...]
2. Richard@Home Says:
   August 5th, 2008 at 9:22 am Looks like your bug report has been dealt with. I downloaded the latest version of the jquery.rating.js and it has your suggested fix in place.
3. rchel Says:
   August 14th, 2008 at 11:02 pm thanks for the update Richard!

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