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Drupal 7 Business Solutions

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Drupal 7 Business Solutions

Overview of this book

You can use the Drupal 7 content management system to build a small business website quickly. You may add blogs, images, maps, e-commerce, social application integration, and more to your site to connect with your customers and make more money from your business. Drupal 7 Business Solutions will give you hands-on practical tutorials on how to build a rich and dynamic website for your business quickly using one of the most popular tools in open source. You'll start by adding blogs and images to your website. Then you'll learn how to add a VIP section to your site so that you can give your logged in users special discounts and other VIP freebies. Next, you will learn to send your customers e-mail newsletters and show them a dynamic events calendar. The book will then teach you to add e-commerce to your site so you can sell your products online. You'll add YouTube videos and Google maps to help enhance your business site. You will then learn to incorporate feedback mechanisms for your customers. The book also explains how to maintain your site, upgrade it, and continue adding dynamic content to it.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Drupal 7 Business Solutions
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Set up user ratings for content


Baker James wants feedback about the baked goods he creates because he wants to know what should be kept on the menu and what could be rotated off. He would like to allow visitors to add some more information about the baked good when they rate it, so we will enable ratings when the visitor adds comments.

To set up a rating system, we're going to install and configure the Fivestar rating module. Fivestar is currently in development status for Drupal 7 but we can use and test the module in our localhost environment before deploying it to a production website.

Add Fivestar content ratings to a node

This task will explain how to implement user ratings. For the client site, this will demonstrate how to allow users to rate menu items.

Goal

Allow customers to rate their favorite menu items so that Baker James can get feedback on his food, keep popular meals, and remove unpopular food.

Additional modules needed

Fivestar (http://drupal.org/project/fivestar) and the Voting...