How to create a star rating system

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Hi All,
I’ve begun creating a star rating system but am unsure how to go about the actual storing and recalling of information when the user selects the number of stars. You can see a very stretched out .swf file here of what I am trying to do. I am not sure whether I need the as3 to write the data to a text file then pull the data from the same file? Any ideas would be great.
Thanks in advance,
BC

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I don’t know if this is what you are looking for…
Storing local data

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You’re going to need some sort of server side interaction to keep track of the data. Could be something very simple like PHP writing to a flat text file.

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  1. use graphics as you want to show the ranking.

  2. have radio buttons laid out for the user to select the ranking.

  3. when the user selects a radio button and submits… change the scene and show him/her that thank you for rating…

  4. in background use URLloader to send the radio buttons value to php /whatever at server end. php will put it up in database/textfile

  5. the stars set should be a parallel swf which loads data from a server end file php or whatever.
    on page load swf uses URLloader to load data from php … which in turn fetched that data from database/textfile.