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Drupal Fivestar - Custom Label?

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idefix

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Is there a way for me to change the default fivestar label "Average:" to something of my own choosing? I searched the Drupal support page for Fivestar and was unable to come up with a solution.

As far as I can tell, users won't necessarily know what the fivestar rating widget is for if the label is simply "Average:". I'd rather it say something like "Rate this article:"

Posted 1 year ago #
Posted 1 year ago
Anonymous
It appears that at the time there's no option for this but to hack the code. Here's how we added a custom label for our fivestar rating:
- Search for all instances of t('Average') in /modules/fivestar/fivestar.module
- Replace the following instances (not all of them) with a label of your choice:
line 1238:
```
switch ($settings['style']) {
    case 'average':
      $form['vote']['#title'] = t('Rate this article');
```
line 1248:
```
case 'smart':
      $form['vote']['#title'] = $values['user'] ? t('Your rating') : t('Rate this article');
```
line 1269:
```
$form['average'] = array(
        '#type' => 'markup',
        '#value' => theme('fivestar_static_element', $static_average, $settings['title'] !== FALSE ? t('Rate this article') : NULL, $static_description),
```
Note that the line #'s may differ depending on the version of the module you're using. This was for // $Id: fivestar.module,v 1.13.2.72 2009/10/04 17:16:48 ezrag Exp $.

Hope that helps!
Posted 1 year ago #

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