viewCategories.asp - error fixed

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   V3.5.  I was having a dickens of time for the past 2 days trying to get the display of more than 1 column of subCategories to display.

I turned off error handling in the CP but the errors that page was showing were of the useless "last query run ..." type.  Plus it was showing the error as being in viewCategories.asp when a global search for the query placed it in the include file "pcShowCategoryX".  I removed the error handling from those two include files to try and view the real error, with page and line number, and low and behold that fixed the original problem too.

There's rich irony in error handling being the cause of errors. 

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cmason Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 18-June-2008 Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote cmason Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: viewCategories.asp - error fixed Posted: 17-December-2008 at 10:15am
	V3.5. I was having a dickens of time for the past 2 days trying to get the display of more than 1 column of subCategories to display. I turned off error handling in the CP but the errors that page was showing were of the useless "last query run ..." type. Plus it was showing the error as being in viewCategories.asp when a global search for the query placed it in the include file "pcShowCategoryX". I removed the error handling from those two include files to try and view the real error, with page and line number, and low and behold that fixed the original problem too. There's rich irony in error handling being the cause of errors.

Greg Dinger Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Certified ProductCart Developers Joined: 23-September-2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 238	Post Options Post Reply Quote Greg Dinger Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 17-December-2008 at 10:35am
	Next time you get that deep, save yourself some trouble. Besides turning off error handling in the CP, at the top of /productcart/includes/opendb.asp is this statement: on error next Change that to this: 'on error next Now you will see the actual error and (hopefully, but not always) the line number. It will make life much easier for you to debug.

cmason Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 18-June-2008 Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote cmason Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 17-December-2008 at 11:08am
	When I'm in development mode, like now, I always comment out "on error next". I forgot to include that I did that, but it's a part of my workflow.