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Geoff S
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Geoff S asked in Computers & InternetProgramming & Design · 1 decade ago

How do I create a webpage with user submissions, voting and ranking?

I'm looking to create a webpage that serves as a type of directory. Let's say for example that I want a local directory of restaurants. I'd want to be able to let the user look at all the restaurants in the directory, rate one they see that they like on a scale from 1 to 5, add comments about it or if they don't see the desired restaurant they can add it themselves. I'd also like to be able to hold new entries for moderator approval, be able to view entries by ranking, amount of votes, perhaps age of the listing, etc. Does anyone know if there already is a template for something like this that I could modify for my own needs? Optimally, some sort of web based easy site creator but if I have to copy/paste code in notepad, I'll do that too. Your assistance is greatly appreciated and I do select a best answer. Thanks!

Update:

I've searched Google and most of the results I've come up with are about how to submit a webpage you've already made to search engines to increase your ranking with their search. That's why I've resulted to asking here. I kind of figured it would require some sort of programming, cgi-bin, java, etc. If you can provide a link that has code that I can make work for this that'd be great.

I don't need help with hosting, I know what that involves as I've made several pages already but none quite this interactive. I can do HTML and some CSS but I'll be wading into new waters for myself with this one. Thanks again for the responses thus far. I'll continue watching the answers.

Update 2:

I've been using free hosting sources like freewebs, although requiring access to cgi-bin I'm sure that will highly narrow the choices available to me. If I have to I could just host it myself on my Ubuntu box!

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  • PCSetupGuide.com
    1 decade ago
    Favourite answer

    Research Joomla

    It's a great CMS - Content Management System - It's easy to copy/paste to. It's Open Source. There are tons of plug-ins, components and modules and LOTS of help in their forums. And, it's all free.

    Also, you might find Drupal works better for you. Same info as Joomla. Both good, both free.

    Source(s): http://www.joomla.org/ http://drupal.org/ http://www.pcsetupguide.com/
  • Richard in Texas
    1 decade ago

    Part of it depends on what kind of options you have on your hosting. I do alot of programming in LAMP, or Linux - Apache - MySQL - PHP. There are numerous free resources for this type of hosting.

    I have looked at several CMS, or content management systems, that have things like polls integrated. You can also look into Mambo.

    If you let me know more about hosting I can tell you more about your options.

    Source(s): pinnacledesigns dot tv
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    easiest way is to use java scripts made by other people, google search for the things u need, ull find quite a few free and easy to use

  • Kalyke
    1 decade ago

    Some form of a web blog will work, you might have to get creative and use php, or javascript for th rating system, but its shouldn't be to hard.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    first u need were to host it (u have to pay a year) then u need a program like java script

  • XAXAM
    1 decade ago

    You can use this ready to go script for ratings:

    http://www.masugadesign.com/the-lab/scripts/unobtr...

    The other stuff like allowing users to add their listings, you can create a simple script to do so.

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