infeeds / voting-mechanism

Infeeds voting mechanism breakdown; built with PHP, MySQL and jQuery.

Infeeds Voting Mechanism Basics

Backend of Infeeds Voting Algorithm. It is a simple git to help understand how different scripts work in sync with each other to get wonderful results.

Contents

Project includes index.php (main INDEX file for demo), my_db.php (for MySQL database connection), increment.php (the script called via AJAX to make changes in the DB) and js/incremento.js (contains a small jQuery function to request click actions response).

Key File

incremento.js

function makeChange(id,type){
	$.post('increment.php', {id:id, type:type}, function(data){
			$('#'+id+'_'+type+'s').text($.trim(data));
		});
}

That's all is the main part of the project, a simple AJAX POST request to increment.PHP file and trimmed response inserted where needed. Here's an example how to implement this; For Likes:

<a href="javascript:;" onClick="makeChange('*unique_id*','like');">
	<span id="*unique_id*_likes">Like *likes_count*</span>
</a>

For Dislikes:

<a href="javascript:;" onClick="makeChange('*unique_id*','dislike');">
	<span id="*unique_id*_dislikes">Disike *dislikes_count*</span>
</a>