In this tutorial, we are going to learn how to create a poll script for rating using PHP. In a previous tutorial, we have seen PHP star rating using jQuery. In this example poll script, there are questions with multiple options to add user rating in a poll. After submitting the poll rating, the overall rating percentage for all the options will be shown to the users.
In this script, I have used jQuery AJAX to show set poll options and save user poll options into the backend database tables. The user session id is defined in the beginning and the poll rating is saved into the database for the user session. On clicking next, the next unrated question will be shown to the user.
When a user chooses an option above, a function called "getVote()" is executed. The function is triggered by the "onclick" event:
The page on the server called by the JavaScript above is a PHP file called "poll_vote.php":