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I solved the problem! Instead of using

<a href="<?php bloginfo('url') ?>/wp-admin/post-new.php"></a>
Instead use:
<a href="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/wp-admin/page-new.php"></a>

I solved the problem! Instead of using

<a href="<?php bloginfo('url') ?>/wp-admin/post-new.php"></a>
Instead use:
<a href="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/wp-admin/page-new.php"></a>

This is a great plug-in. I hope the support and updates will last.

Hi. Did you ever get this figured out?

I wasn’t aware of that. Thanks for the info. I’ll get right on it.

Correction.

For those who want to know, you can use this line of code.
‘<script type=”text/javascript” src=”<?php bloginfo(‘template_url’); ?>/js/maxrating.js”></script>’

Do not just use that line of code. Replace it with your own path and file name.

Okay. Well I appreciate your time. Have fun.

Hey. Thanks for helping out. I forget that others have the luxury of work. I’m unemployed and I promised my wife I would learn a new career so I’m spending all of my time learning WordPress, PHP, MySQL and Javascript. I am working on this about 15 hours a day so I’m sorry that I made it sound if you were not helpful. I’m getting the hang of how this forum works. I know not to bump an issue too. Anyway. What you said above

it seems to me that it might be best to leave at least part of it in a separate file.

seems to be true. I replaced the call to the file ‘submitRating.php’ from the javascript file and left the class in the functions.php file and everything worked fine. Should I post the entire php class in the bin or just certain lines? Thanks again for helping.

Let me try this again. Since I didn’t explain the issue to well last time and I think apljdi gave up on me.
I have a star rating package that is not a plug in. The package has three files that interact with each other from a template file created by me under a WordPress theme.
One of the tree files is a php file that holds a php class. with all the needed functions. I copied the class and placed it in my functions.php file so it could be called from my template file.
The second file is a text file that gets ip addresses and rating scores written to it by the php class.
The third file is a javascript file that is called by the header of the template file and also has a function that submits the rating to the class in the functions.php file which then writes to the results.txt file.
Okay. The first thing I did was copy the class into the functions.php file and theen fired up the package with a call from my template file with this line of code.
‘<?php $handler->displayRating(‘Book1′,5); ?>’
which creates a new class for rating but threw this warning on my page.

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in wordpress/wp-content/themes/mytheme/functions.php line 26

which is this line of code.
‘foreach ($fileContent as $line) {‘.

I traced the code back to the creation of the $fileContent variable which had it’s roots in this line of code that creates a class variable with the results.txt file as the value.
‘var $RATES_RESULT_FILE = “results.txt”;’
I then changed that line to this.
‘var $RATES_RESULT_FILE = “wp-content/themes/mytheme/results.txt”;’ with the result of no error and the rating blocks being displayed. As I tested I realized I was able to vote more than once which was a bug. In the javascript file there is a function that controls the submit rating action. Within this function I found that it had a line to open the original file that stored the php class which I had copied to the functions.php file. Here is the original line of code.
‘httpObject.open(“GET”, “submitRating..php?item=”+item+”&rating=”+rate+”&max=”+max, true);’
I changed it to this line of code.
‘httpObject.open(“GET”, “https://localhost/wordpress/wp-content/themese/mytheme/functions.php?item=”+item+”&rating=”+rate+”&max=”+max, true);’
I reloaded my page without error. I moused over the rating block no error. I clicked on the rating block and got two warnings.

Warning: fopen(wp-content/themes/mytheme/results.txt) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\wamp\www\wordpress\wp-content\themes\mytheme\functions.php on line 107

Here is line 107
‘$f = fopen($this->RATES_RESULT_FILE,”a+”);’

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in C:\wamp\www\wordpress\wp-content\themes\mytheme\functions.php on line 26

Now we have come full loop with the same error I started out with due to this line of code.
‘foreach ($fileContent as $line)’.
Sorry this is so envolved. I just wanted to be clear and concise. I would paste more of the code but I was told not to paste large blocks of code here.
All I’m really trying to achieve here is to learn about WordPress and how it deals with paths and how I can deal with such issues in the future. If I wanted to go the easy route I would just get a plugin.

Thanks in advance if you can help or willing to try

Is this– var $RATES_RESULT_FILE = TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/results.txt’;– part of a javascript function?

No it’s part of the class located in the functions.php file.

Well It was working until I realized that the javascript wasn’t working correctly as it was letting me vote several times and not updating. So I wrote a direct path from the javascript file using
httpObject.open("GET", "https://localhost/wordpress/wp-content/themes/modernscribe/functions.php?item="+item+"&rating="+rate+"&max="+max, true);
Then I got this error
Warning: fopen(wp-content/themes/modernscribe/results.txt) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\wamp\www\wordpress\wp-content\themes\modernscribe\functions.php on line 107

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in C:\wamp\www\wordpress\wp-content\themes\modernscribe\functions.php on line 26
Sorry I didn’t include all that earlier.

Here is the call from the javascript file that lives in a js folder

httpObject.open("GET", "https://localhost/wordpress/wp-content/themes/modernscribe/functions.php?item="+item+"&rating="+rate+"&max="+max, true);

Here is the referance to the text file that is a writable file to write rates and ip addresses to. The way I’m using it now and it works.
var $RATES_RESULT_FILE = "wp-content/themes/modernscribe/results.txt";
Here is the way I tried to do it using TEMPLATEPATH:
var $RATES_RESULT_FILE = TEMPLATEPATH . '/results.txt';

I’ve tried TEMPLATEPATH but that didn’t work. Maybe I didn’t use the correct syntax.
Along the same subject there is a line in the javascript that calls the class from the functions file and I don’t know how to get there regarding the path issue. If you can help I’d appreciate it.

Thanks

Thanks for the encouragement.

t31os_. That was exactly what I was looking for.

Each PHP function and WP function has an associated document (songdogtech provided one for WP_Query), but i don’t think you’ll make any sense of them without reading through each (it would be a little like explaining what a steering wheel is to someone who has no idea what a car is)… bad analogy aside, hope that helps..

. As I am studying both WP and PHP I have been referring to both set of documents as I want all of the details I can get. Sometimes a breakdown like you provided makes the clouds part and lets the light of the code shine through.
Thanks again.

I’m aware of the codex. Thank you. I”m looking for a more down-to-earth breakdown.