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I have a client who wants to add a difficulty rating icon to each content title. They are using their mambo content items as events and want to post a rating for each (calendar system was rejected).

In mambo 4.5.1.0.9 one could add html into the title to achieve such aims. Currently in 4.5.2.3 this seems to all get stripped out of the title.

My question is how can I achieve this? DO i need to write a mambot? Or can i hack the title field to prevent stripping out html and allow them to add a simple span and id tag to show an image? I imagine the latter means altering a core class whcih I am happy to do though i realise it is not best practice.

Any quick advice on quickest ( as opposed to best practice) solutions would be dearly welcome.

alan-s

Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you need but how about using the content rating system: Global configuration > Content > Item Rating/Voting: Show

Thanks Sebastian,
It is an interesting option indeed! I had overlooked it. I was wanting to get a rating icon specifically at the end of the title line so that in a category listing you could see that item.

So the question might now become how can I adapt the ratings feature to appear inline with an item title in category view and only be used by admins.....

I'll go make another coffee.....

You can change the access level in the MOS rating mambot to special to allow admin access only.
To change it's position though, I think your going to have to start editing the mosvoting.php.

Was I quicker than you could make coffee?

Quicker than coffee yes!
BUt the admin priveleges unfortunately are not granular enough for voting. It has to be seen by public but done by admins in the back end. However, I am now digging into the mosvote.php.......

ta

I see, it's do-able, you could probably write a simple hack, if the gid is higher than 19 (admin) then show the voting, else just show the vote results.