Comments on: Showing all reviews and ratings on a page in Magento

By: Michael C.

Michael C. — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:38:58 +0000

Just wanna say thanks for posting this. It saved me from potentially hours of fruitless work. The code worked perfectly. I plan to use this to display reviews inline with a product, and also add an AJAXified rating/review widget.

By: Cristi

Cristi — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:10:16 +0000

I suppose you would like to only show the reviews of a certain list of products. You could try to filter by the product id. Quickly checking the Mage_Review_Model_Mysql4_Review_Collection class, there's no way to do that, so I went up the class hierarchy and found the method addFieldToFilter in Varien_Data_Collection_Db. This should probably do the trick: $reviews->addFieldToFilter('entity_pk_value', array('in' => array( ... list of product ids ... )))

By: Aknal

Aknal — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:33:23 +0000

How to get reviews for group of product ids

By: Cristi

Cristi — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:48:25 +0000

i think $_prod->getName() and $_prod->getImage() (or getSmallImage()) should work fine inside that loop.

By: Laurent

Laurent — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:58:59 +0000

Hi Guys,

Thank you for this post.

However, it works displaying the reviews but I can’t get the product name and product image. Here is my php file:
getResourceCollection();
$reviews->addStoreFilter( Mage::app()->getStore()->getId() )
->addStatusFilter( Mage_Review_Model_Review::STATUS_APPROVED )
->setDateOrder()
->addRateVotes()
->load();

return $reviews;
}

function getProduct( Mage_Review_Model_Review $review ) {
if( !isset($this->_loadedProducts[ $review->getEntityPkValue() ]) ) {
$this->_loadedProducts[$review->getEntityPkValue()] = Mage::getModel(‘catalog/product’)->load( $review->getEntityPkValue() );
}

return $this->_loadedProducts[ $review->getEntityPkValue() ];
}

function getAverageRating( Mage_Review_Model_Review $review ) {
$avg = 0;
if( count($review->getRatingVotes()) ) {
$ratings = array();
foreach( $review->getRatingVotes() as $rating ) {
$ratings[] = $rating->getPercent();
}
$avg = array_sum($ratings)/count($ratings);
}

return $avg;
}

}

And here is the phtml file:

Title
Details
Nickname
Date
Product Name
Product Image
Avg. Rating

getReviews() as $review) {
$review_prod = $this->getProduct($review);
$_prod = $this->getProduct( $review );
?>

getTitle()?>
getDetail()?>
getNickname()?>
getCreatedAt()?>

http://mandagreen.com/anatomy-of-a-magento-extension/

By: Daan

Daan — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 09:53:04 +0000

Any update on that ZIP? I’m just beginning with magento, but would love to study the structure, I don’t know how to add a custom module, and the tutorials on other sites doesn’t get me in the right direction..

By: Paul Bates

Paul Bates — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 09:10:19 +0000

@Cristi I fully understand where your coming from Cristi, to prove my request wasn't just laziness I did follow up and investigate creating blocks and templates etc. and discovered the ModuleCreator Ext. unfortunately I wouldn't run and documentation is limited. If you can get a zip to download it will be more appreciated than you can imagine. Thanks.

By: Cristi

Cristi — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 23:25:57 +0000

I’ve removed the links, I think the url field should be enough to link to your website(s).
Regarding your problem, I agree that most of the time a zip would save a lot, I also prefer to check full code too. However, in this case I didn’t have enough time to “extract” the files from the project that it was developed on.
On the other hand, if you’re not comfortable with creating a block & template in magento, I advise hiring a pro or at least someone who knows what they’re doing. there are freelancers all over the place now (elance, odesk, rent a coder), more or less reliable and more or less expensive. i’ll see if i can zip this the following days and will leave a comment if I do.

By: Paul Bates

Paul Bates — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 20:16:22 +0000

Sounds all good, unfortunately most of it went over my head (I’m getting old and simplicity reigns supreme).

Personally I would love to have a nice zip file to download so I could study the structure with clarity. Instructions like “You’ll only need to manipulate a block and a template.” are although simple very confusing to us whom have little tinkering knowledge within magentos’ code.

Before I spend some hard earned on a widget I wonder if any indian givers can put me out of my misery and send the code for me to hack about.