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August 2009
Displaying Star Rating using CSS Sprites
Recently, I have been working on an Application which involved rating system. There are 2 cases where we would want to display ratings. On 1st case, we would just want to display the list of contents (videos, blogs etc.) with its rating (just displayed).
On another case, show the rating and also allow viewer to rate content. There are already several blogs relating to 2nd case (CSS Star Rating), so, I will only discuss the 1st case.
jImdb: jQuery Imdb Grabber Plugin
This jQuery Plugin (jimdb) allows you to Grab Movie Details from an IMDB Webpage very easily. It grabs the basic details (Title, Director, Writers, Release Date, Tag line, Plot, Runtime, MPAA, Language, Aspect Ratio, Country) from the IMDB Page and Returns the data in JSON Format.
To overcome Javascript Cross-domain restriction, a server-side proxy file has been provided in PHP with the plugin.