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VotingAPI helps developers who want to use a standardized API and schema for storing, retrieving and tabulating votes for Drupal content.

Please view the API de votación page for more details.

Usos

General

VotingAPI uses a flexible, easy-to-use framework for rating, voting, moderation, and consensus-gathering modules in Drupal. Module developers use it to focus on their ideas (say, providing a "rate this thread" widget at the bottom of each forum post) without worrying about the grunt work of storing votes, preventing ballot-stuffing, calculating the results, and so on.

Basic Concepts and Features

VotingAPI does NOT directly expose any voting mechanisms to end users. It is a framework designed to make life easier for other developers, and to standardize voting data for consumption by other modules (like Views).

Two kinds of records are stored: individual votes by each user on each piece of content, and cached "result" records. The cached records aggregate calculated values like the average vote for a piece of content, how many people voted on it, etc. Each time a user votes, the cached result records are automatically recalculated. This means that no "on-the-fly" calculations have to be done when displaying content ratings.