Ok, so I need to create a page for my job where people can leave reviews on books that they've read.

I'd like them to be able to enter free text, and also rank the book 1-5 stars.

The hard part is that I dont want it to automatically post it to the page, I want to be able to approve the post before it's posted. (again, this is for a work intranet page).


I'm by no means a web developer, but I do have a basic working knowledge of html and java.

Can someone point me in the right direction? Or have a link to some code that could be modified or something to accomplish this all?

3/4/2007 8:34:58 PM

php and sql, allow submissions into the db with a flag value of off, review yourself and turn them on if you allow them and delete it from the db or just leave it off otherwise

3/4/2007 8:43:40 PM

attempting to write this yourself from scratch would be a mistake... try sourceforge.net and see if you can find anything similar to what you need

3/4/2007 8:49:44 PM

I'm not knowledgeable of these things ... but wouldn't a wiki (with a bit of customization for the ratings) provide this functionality?

3/5/2007 6:25:50 AM

yeah if you want something that will take all the ratings and add them up, give you an average, show books by order of rating, ect, then you will definately need to turn this little site into a webapp using php/mysql(generally the easiest to implement).

If I have time later, I will look for some free apps already created that you could tweek.

3/5/2007 7:44:12 AM

I definitely dont need anything that involved.

I dont need averages, etc.

Our library here at our RTP site only has about 10 books.

Each book will have its own page with a short description, and I want users to be able to leave a book review and rating on that page only. It's unnecessary to have rankings, averages, etc.

[Edited on March 5, 2007 at 8:21 AM. Reason : .]

3/5/2007 8:19:50 AM

well, still need either to implement a database, with a simple input text field for reviews for that book entry in the db, or just install wordpress, create a blog, and have a blog entry for each book, and let users comment on the books in the comments section. Thats probably an easy way around it...

Wiki might work too, but once again, you will probably have to install something premade unless you are getting something out of doing it all yourself.

3/5/2007 12:41:15 PM

you could use a text file for the storage. in that case you'd only need Java or PHP to interface with the text file.

it can be done but it will not be anywhere close to the most efficient, scalable, or elegant system ever made.

3/5/2007 12:45:10 PM