markivanowich / mji-moviereview

Following along with a laravel online course

MJI Movie Review

An example Laravel Movie Review application.

Started 2024-06-23

The course is building a book review app, and I've decided to change gears to a movie review app. I want to show that I'm not copying the code verbatim.

There are a few key differences with my version vs the instructors. One of which is my preference to show both the filtered and the total ratings simultaneously.

mji-moviereview's Issues

Ratings different filtered and unfiltered

The instructor's app will filter the reviews for a movie, which is misleading.

For example, when filtering by popular last month, a movie may say it has 3 reviews. Clicking on that movie will show it actually has 22 reviews!

Whats happening is the app is filtering the reviews and recalculating the rating based on that when in the list, but not filtering when viewing. I created two new scopes along the lines of return $query->withAvg('reviews as all_reviews_rating', 'rating'); which will keep both the filtered and unfiltered ratings.

What needs to be done is redesigning the view for a visual representation of the filtered rating and the unfiltered rating;
"2/5 stars from 3 filtered reviews, 4/5 from 22 total reviews"