check out the star rating system that is v easy to use and configure. just download and follow the instructions to meet all your needs for star rating system in ur site.
http://boedesign.com/lab/ajax-star-rating/
u can also use this to fetch the favorites by using getTopRated function
to add few extra lines from me is that check out the implementation in my site
http://www.muslim-baby-names.com/muslim ... =boy&chr=A
i used the following line to call the pullrating function
pullRating(mysql_result($result, $i, "nameId"),true,false,true);
happy programming
any question please do ask...