Drupal Creating Votes in Voting API Through Code - api

Question

I have a custom module I'm writing, part of what I want it to do is create a vote associated with a node, I'm trying to figure out how to call the voting API from my module. I loookd in the documentation but it's a little sparse.

Answer 1

Here is an example from a module I wrote a while ago.
while ($data = db_fetch_object($result)) {
$node = node_load($data->nid);
$node_terms = taxonomy_node_get_terms($node);
$vote['value'] = 0;
$vote['value_type'] = 'points';
foreach ($node_terms as $term) {
$vote['value'] = $vote['value'] + $users_tags[$term->name];
}
$vote['content_id'] = $node->nid;
if (isset($vote['content_id'])) {
votingapi_set_votes($vote);
}
}

Answer 2

Just another example of using this:
function _ept_set_vote($nid, $status, $uid = NULL) {
global $user;
$vote = array(
array(
'entity_type' => 'node',
'value' => 1,
'entity_id' => $nid,
'uid' => (!$uid) ? $user->uid : $uid,
'tag' => $status
)
);
votingapi_set_votes($vote, array());
}
I call it like this:
switch($task_status){
case('start'):
_ept_set_vote($nid, "Start");
break;
case('completed'):
_ept_set_vote($nid, "Completed");
break;
}