jQuery: Gmail Star?

Question

I was wondering if anyone had any good tutorials around creating a gmail inbox star (favorite) ?

EDIT:

I guess I want to create something just like the stackover

Answer 1

I'm assuming you want less of a "rating" system (as mentioned in the other answers) and more of a "add this to favorites" system?

Something like this should get you started in the right direction. Others, feel free to chime in with other best-practices if you have them.

foo.html

jquery.make_favorite.js

(function($){
  $.fn.make_favorite = function(){

    var callback = function(response){
      console.log(response);
    };

    return this.each(function(){

      $(this).click(function(){
        var params = {
          item_type:  $(this).attr('href').match(/\w+/)[0],  // 'article'
          item_id:    $(this).attr('href').match(/\d+/)[0]   // 15
        };

        $.post('/favorite.php', params, callback, 'json');

        // stop event propagation
        return false;
      });
    });
  };
})(jQuery);

favorite.php

 true, 'message' => 'Huzza!');
}
else {
  $response = array('ok' => false, 'message' => mysql_error());
}

// the magic?
echo json_encode($response);

?>