Hide rating form after submit and only show results

Hi damshaw,

There’s a code snippet you can use in the Pro version, but not the free version as it does have in built functions to checks ratings exist against a user.

Here’s a code snippet for the Pro version you can use:

<?php
// get post id - assumes in WP loop
global $post;
$post_id = $post->ID;
	
// get default rating form for post, this checks the filter settings, post meta and general settings
$rating_form_id = MRP_Utils::get_rating_form( $post_id );
	
// get current logged in user
$user_id = 0; // anonymous
$user = wp_get_current_user();
if ( $user && $user->ID ) {
	$user_id = $user->ID;
}
	
// show rating form if user has not yet rated, otherwise show rating item 
if ( ! MRP_Multi_Rating_API::user_rating_exists( $rating_form_id, $post_id, $user_id ) ) {
	mrp_rating_form();
} else {
	mrp_rating_result();
}

Some documentation on template tags in the Pro version here

Daniel

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A couple of other options for the free version if needed.

1. You can check whether a rating has been submitted recently for that post by checking if the IP address and cookie has already been logged. But this is not reliable and cookies expire. See class-utils.php file and function validate_save_rating_restricton() for an example.

2. The user id is stored in the rating entry table, so you could also write a database query to check as well.

Oh and to display the rating form in the free version, it’s easier to use echo do_shortcode( ‘[mr_rating_form]’ );

Cheers,
Daniel

Thanks for the quick response!

I bought the pro version and it works perfectly.

Any chance the following feature is int the pipeline would be great to have!

The ability to have a user just click on a star to automatically submit the rating without the need for the submit button.

Cheers
Adam