I'm actually working with this as we speak, I'm tweaking a plug-n-play php rating script to work dynamically, but currently I'm having issues with it messing up my folderblog template. Any help would be appreciated. My folderblog is http://gallery.bleary-eyed.net and the script's url is here.

After 8 hours of tweaking, I think I have it completed. Contact me if you want it, in the meantime I'll be creating a page for the hack. View my rating system here and here.

I finally finished a rough draft of the tutorial, which can be found here. Give me feedback and tell me what problems you encounter.

So far I've had issues with errors occuring on photos that had apostrophes in the titles. There were only three photos, though, so I just changed the titles and left the bug. lol!

Hi Sarasnee,
I am unable to use the rating system.
Please help me. The link for blog is:
http://www.ee.iitb.ac.in/uma/~saurabhg/shutterbug

For rater folder is:
http://www.ee.iitb.ac.in/uma/~saurabhg/shutterbug/rater

I get an error message when I try to run test.php or rater.php file.

Error message:
Warning: fopen("rater/item_1.rating", "w") - No such file or directory in /mount/ug/dd/saurabhg/public_html/shutterbug/rater/rater.php on line 85

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource in /mount/ug/dd/saurabhg/public_html/shutterbug/rater/rater.php on line 86

Yeah, I've had that error as well. It's because you have slashes in the rating file name, so it's looking for another /rater/rater/item_1.rating instead of /rater/item_1.rating. It happened when I used #fbname# instead of #fbnumber# in the code inserted in the template.

Too bad it doesn't work that way, though.

Oh, you may also have put rater.php in the rater folder. It goes in the main directory. If you look at the first line of the "don't edit below this" line in rater.php, it already knows to go to /rater/ for the rating files, so you can put it in the main directory.

Yeah, you have it in the rater folder. I changed the tutorial so maybe it's more clear now. Good luck!

Hi!
I have put rater.php in main folder..
and i use #fbnumber# in y template_main page.

Two problems:
1) the rating does not appear on my pages
2) when i try to access it using http://www.ee.iitb.ac.in/uma/~saurabhg/shutterbug/rater.php

I can see the rating but when I try to click it< i get the previously mentioned error.

You don't access the ratings via rater.php. rater.php is included dynamically in your main page of folderblog once you insert that little code (code #2) into your template_main page. Or so it should. o.O

I should read what you post before I jump to conclusions, lol. Now I'm thinking perhaps you haven't done a CHMOD on your /rater/ folder. It needs to be writeable. But I'm still not sure why it's not showing up, it should be.. Are you using a different template and not the template_main?

Oh, you may also want to change your image locations on your rater.php so that they show up. Right now it's pointing to ee.iitb.ac.in/rater/img/00star.gif instead of /uma/~saurabhg/shutterbug/rater/. So you'll have to go in under // assign star image and change the directory.

Sorry about all of these bumps, this is all new for me. :)

Vikram, I've tweaked the image area of rater.php on the tutorial if you'd rather just copy that. Images should work for you then. According to your index.php source code, I think you've pretty much excluded the code from your page. I think you should either put the code in your table or clean up the tables themselves, that might be the problem.. because it's there and it recognizes your photos, it just doesn't display. CHMODing might fix this as well, though. Email me at sara@bleary-eyed.net if you want some direct contact, although I'm leaving and won't be back until tomorrow. Good luck!