Re: Serious bug writing to a database ...
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texte = Ken, I believe something related came up a while back and Scott knows about it. We did a series of tests where if you had a db like:ID
CAT_ID NAME 2 1 FRED 1 1 JOHN your database, and you did a search like:[search db=testdb.db&eqCAT_IDdatarq=1&eqIDdatarq=1] [founditems][name] [/founditems] [/search]It should return just JOHN, right.? It doesn't. It returns both Fred and John.Scott, is this fixed in version 5?thanks, Donovan Kenneth Grome wrote:> I found a serious bug in webcat. It writes data to the wrong db > field sometimes! > > My form has a resumeEmail field, but my db has a resumeEmail1 > field -- and these field names are NOT the same. Nevertheless, > webcat writes the form field value to the resumeEmail1. > > This is bad because webcat should never write data to any db field > unless the field names match exactly. And in this case they do not > match, which leads me to the conclusion that this is a bug. > > Sincerely, > Kenneth Grome > >-- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------<><> Donovan Brooke <><>->ï ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/
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Ken, I believe something related came up a while back and Scott knows about it. We did a series of tests where if you had a db like:ID CAT_ID NAME 2 1 FRED 1 1 JOHN your database, and you did a search like:[search db=testdb.db&eqCAT_IDdatarq=1&eqIDdatarq=1] [founditems][name] [/founditems] [/search]It should return just JOHN, right.? It doesn't. It returns both Fred and John.Scott, is this fixed in version 5?thanks, Donovan Kenneth Grome wrote:> I found a serious bug in webcat. It writes data to the wrong db > field sometimes! > > My form has a resumeEmail field, but my db has a resumeEmail1 > field -- and these field names are NOT the same. Nevertheless, > webcat writes the form field value to the resumeEmail1. > > This is bad because webcat should never write data to any db field > unless the field names match exactly. And in this case they do not > match, which leads me to the conclusion that this is a bug. > > Sincerely, > Kenneth Grome > >-- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------<><> Donovan Brooke <><>->ï ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/
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