may be an actual bug.Revisited

[mediamob <mediamob@dnaco.net>]

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Back again. I have also sent this message directly to Mike - not so much
for help, but so that he knows in case I really did find a bug. If that
isn't appropriate, Mike - my apologies and I won't do it again.

I have tried a few more tests just to narrow down the problem a bit more.
For one, I corrected my HTML after Ryan Hertz' reminder. It didn't fix the
sort, but better code is better code, and I am appreciative. Assume the
code below has a ; after each &nbsp.

I have also tried numeric sorts on other fields ( new values for tf=) and
do not get the server error. On the only other numeric field I use (time)
the sort is even vaild. The only thing that sets it off is sorting on
0.

If there is no way to do this, I am soliciting workarounds - I have
thought of two:

1. A duplicate field in each record that matches the value of [code].
Major Kludge which I would like to avoid.

2. Manual sorting of products.asc so the "native" order is numeric on
[code]. Preliminary tests seem to indicate that this order is preserved
into the GDBM file, but I'd like confirmation before I start a manual sort
on that assumption.


Thanks all for your time-

Pat Santucci

Here's the original message:

Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 13:35:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: mediamob <mediamob@dnaco.net>
To: minivend-users <minivend-users@minivend.com>
Subject: This should work - may be an actual bug.


Greetings all-

I recently posted to the list with a problem sorting a search based on the
code. Mike replied that the sort was failing because code is not a named
field, but rather the key, and offered a fix that looks much better than
what I was doing. Here's the page with the fix in place:

[loop search="ra=yes/tf=0/to=n/ml=100000"]
[page href=browse1 arg=[loop-code]:1]<I>MediaMob# [loop-code]</I> &nbsp
<B>[loop-field Mobtitle]</B>
[/page] arg to browse1 = [calc][loop-code][/calc]:1
&nbsp &nbsp
[order [loop-code]]Add to cart[/order]
<B>[L]Our Price[/L] [loop-price]</B><p>
[/loop][loop search="ra=yes/tf=0/to=n/ml=100000"]
[page href=browse1 arg=[loop-code]:1]<I>MediaMob# [loop-code]</I> &nbsp
<B>[loop-field Mobtitle]</B>
[/page] arg to browse1 = [calc][loop-code][/calc]:1
&nbsp &nbsp
[order [loop-code]]Add to cart[/order]
<B>[L]Our Price[/L] [loop-price]</B><p>
[/loop]

Here's what I see in the browser when I load the page:

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was
unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, @dnaco.net and inform them of the
time the error occurred, and anything you
might have done that may have caused the error.

And here is the applicable section of error.log:

pm3-1-6.dnaco.net nYaFg77d:LOCAL - [30/May/1999:13:22:31 -0400] mobtest
/cgi-bin/mobtest/numberidx Runtime error: Bad sort routine:
> sub {
>       my @a = (split /        /, $a, 2)[];
>       my @b = (split /        /, $b, 2)[];
>       my $r;
> return 0
> }
>
> syntax error at (eval 39) line 2, near "[]"
> syntax error at (eval 39) line 3, near "[]"
>                         

DOes anyone know what to do? Mike?

Would anyone be willing to try similar code on your server to see if it
may be a local problem for me?

Hopefully-

Pat Santucci


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