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Creating a 'Like' button

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 12:17 pm
by geko21
Hi guys, bassically I want to create a Like button for my website so people visiting dont have to comment the content they can just click a button to say they like it and also display the amount of people who have clicked the button aswell (bit like what facebook has done with the buttons). Im not sure how to start this so if anyone can help me it would be great.

heres an idea of what im trying to do

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Re: Creating a 'Like' button

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 10:32 am
by social_experiment
A database can work in this instance. When a visitor clicks the link you can increase an amount already in the database and then display that value back (X people likes this). You should also check that a user can only 'like' once per day to make your results more 'accurate'.