Re: [Sandweb-users] Installation problems

[Bryce H. <br...@os...>]

On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, Nick Jennings wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 12:07:58PM -0700, Rob Helmer wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 10:51:59AM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> >
> > > For some reason that I could not determine, the javascript for one of
> > > the tests in repository.js always fails.  This is the
> > > isEmpty(document.repository.repo_root.value) validation command.  The
> > > other validation commands work fine.  I tried it on Konqueror and
> > > Netscape 4.x.  I ended up just commenting it out.
> >
> > I only test SW with IE and Mozilla, last I checked it worked in
> > Konq but it could use testing. I'll try to reproduce this.
>
>  Hmm, I didn't catch this in the first email. Bryce, if it's possible
>  to use a fairly recent Mozilla, at least for cross-testing purposes to
>  find the problem, that would be great.

I also tested with Mozilla, forgot to mention that.  Probably not
terribly recent though.

I believe most of your browser-dependency issues would disappear if use
of javascript in the entry forms was avoided, especially for the submit
buttons.  There are also some techniques for making javascript that'll
run on a wider variety of browsers.

> > > I was getting errors when trying to update user info and it wasn't
> > > "setting".  On line 2977 it sets the user params via:
> > >
> > >       $user->{'personal'}->{"$param"} = param("$param") || '';
> > >
> > > However there was no $user->{'personal'} value in the $user hash at this
> > > point so it failed.  To fix this I added above the loop:
> > >
> > >       $user->{personal} = { };
> >
> > Hmm... haven't seen this before.
>
>  My guess is the hash structure did not exist because it wasn't reading
>  the config file correctly, if at all.

This was my take as well.

Bryce