I tried rating a resource, and got the following notice:

Unkown Tag: R

I clicked back, and tried again and it said I'd already rated it recently, so apparently, it went through, but what is wrong that it shows the Unkown Tag: R thingy? What can I do to fix that?


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--Sanguinarius
The Real Vampire Directory
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The 'R' variable is part of the external rate it script. If you are trying to display the rating received <%R%> on the page, it can't be recognized unless you add %rec, to sub home_site_html_rating_form_success in site_html_templates.pl. If you still have problems, check the instructions to be sure you didn't miss something else:
speculativevision.com/rateit/rateitmod.shtml

I don't think this is necessary for the non template version.

OK, all I do is add the following:


to sub home_site_html_rating_form_success in
site_html_templates.pl right? That's all? That will get rid of the unkown tag: R thing? OK.

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--Sanguinarius
The Real Vampire Directory
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%rec is already there:


I think I got the error when I was trying to rate it from the Directory, anyway. So what do I do now?

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--Sanguinarius
The Real Vampire Directory
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Ah-ha...it sounds like your added the <%R%> variable to your normal rate success template. That won't work. The R is a special variable that only exists when you run the remote ratings script. I'm not sure off the top of my head what the variable in the regular ratings script is, but try taking the <% R %> out of the regular rate success template and see if that eliminates the error.

But I never _added_ the %R% tag to begin with; it was already there when I got the script. *whimper* Should I still take it out?

I'm sorry if I'm sounding incredibly stupid, I don't know about these things...

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--Sanguinarius
The Real Vampire Directory
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*sigh* Well, should I? I don't really know what I'm doing and the last thing I want to do is screw up my scripts so they don't work. :/

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--Sanguinarius
The Real Vampire Directory
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Sorry...missed your reply

I don't know why it would be in your downloaded templates, but if the <%R%> is in ANY template other than remote_rate_success.html, take it out and it should work.

If you still have trouble, let me know.

OK, the <%R%> tag was found only in rate_success.html and remote_rate_success.html templates in the form of the following line:


It must have come in rate_success.html (and remote_rate_success.html, for that matter) because I sure didn't put it in there. Should I take it out of rate_success.html ? Why would that make any difference in how it worked? If it works in remote_rate_success.html why wouldn't it work in rate_success.html ? I mean, it's just feeding the person back the rating they submitted...

I'm kinda confused...(did she say "kinda"?)

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--Sanguinarius
The Real Vampire Directory
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 Yes.

It's because the R variable is not a "standard" part of links. It was made up by MRaburn when he came up with the original remote ratings script...I kept it in the templates version. The R variable is ONLY created by the remote ratings script, then "fed" directly to remote_rate_success.html. No R variable is created by the regular/internal ratings script, so there is nothing to pass to rate_success.html. In essence, when Links trys to parse rate_success.html, its getting to the %R% call and coughing up an error at you to say "hey, what do you expect me to do with this non-existent variable?".

Hey, whaddaya know. I took it out and didn't have any problems rating stuff after that! Thanx!

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--Sanguinarius
The Real Vampire Directory
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