Removing Product Review but retain the Product Rating

Question

is there a way of disabling Product Review but retain Product rating?

I already disabled the Product Review in the backend but in the frontend the ratings will not be displayed.

I would like to get rid of the review but the ratings will remain by asking the user to login first before they can rate, then after login they can give a 1-5 star for the rating to the Product. Is this achievable? Any insights? solutions? Thanks

Answer 1

It seems that when you disable Mage_Review then Mage_Rating also gets disabled.

You can manually remove the review form by editing the following template file:

app/design/frontend/YOUR_PACKAGE/YOUR_THEME/template/review/form.phtml

The review form is submitted to postAction() of class Mage_Review_ProductController (app/code/core/Mage/Review/controllers/ProductController.php).

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In postAction() function, you will see this code:

$validate = $review->validate();

You can set $validate to true:

$validate = true;

Or, edit the validate() function in class Mage_Review_Model_Review (app/code/core/Mage/Review/Model/Review.php).