# How to create a star rating system
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-create-a-star-rating-system/261269
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [May 25, 2008, 1:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-create-a-star-rating-system/261269 "2008-05-25T13:13:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@RIT\_FlashKid](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/RIT_FlashKid)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2008, 1:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-create-a-star-rating-system/261269/1 "2008-05-25T13:13:21Z")
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](http://bjcmedia.com/starrankingsystem.swf) 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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### Author:  [@yaim0310](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/yaim0310)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2008, 6:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-create-a-star-rating-system/261269/2 "2008-05-25T18:56:06Z")
I don’t know if this is what you are looking for…
[Storing local data](http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Parts&file=00000319.html)
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### Author:  [@Anogar](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Anogar)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2008, 7:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-create-a-star-rating-system/261269/3 "2008-05-25T19:04:16Z")
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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### Author:  [@sparkdemon](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sparkdemon)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2008, 8:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-create-a-star-rating-system/261269/4 "2008-05-26T08:07:48Z")
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.