hypejunction/elgg_stars

Star rating widget for any Elgg entity — annotate, aggregate, and display.

7.0.0 2026-05-24 09:12 UTC

Requires

• php: >=8.3
• ext-intl: *
• composer/installers: ^2.0
• elgg/elgg: ~7.0.0

GPL-2.0-or-later

• Ismayil Khayredinov

• plugin
• stars
• ratings
• elgg

README

Star rating widget for any Elgg entity — annotate, aggregate, and display.

Features

• Drop-in interactive star rating widget (jQuery RateIt) for entities of any type/subtype.
• Multi-criterion ratings — register any number of annotation names.
• Aggregated stats: per-entity count, sum, and average.
• Admin UI to enable per-type/subtype, per-criterion rating.
• River entries for new ratings.
• "Highest Rated" widget for profile, group, and dashboard contexts.

Installation

Via Composer (recommended):

composer require hypejunction/elgg_stars

Manual:

Download the zip, extract into your Elgg mod/ directory, and activate in the admin panel.

Usage

Render a rating form

echo elgg_view_form('stars/rate', [], [
    'entity' => $entity,
    'annotation_names' => ['starrating'],
]);

Display a read-only rating

echo elgg_view('output/stars', ['value' => $entity_rating]);

Programmatic rating values

$rating = elgg_stars_get_entity_rating_values($entity, ['starrating']);
// $rating = ['count' => N, 'sum' => N, 'value' => avg, 'min' => 0, 'max' => 5, 'step' => 1]

Compatibility

Plugin version	Elgg version
current	7.x
6.x	6.x
5.x	5.x
4.x	4.x
3.x	3.x

Credits

• RateIt — jQuery star rating plugin (bundled in vendors/rateit/).

License

GPL-2.0-or-later