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Tutorial Problems (Similar to others mentioned)

Jan 15, 2001, 3:24 AM

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I am new to the entire Interchange product as of this morning. I installed
everything correctly (to my knowledge) and was able to get the demos
working without any trouble. I made it to section 12 of the tutorial
without any trouble as well. After creating my
special_pages/needfield.html page, I tried to test it without entering any
data. The needfield.html page loaded, but no errors were listed. I
entered all the data correctly, clicked Finished, and had the same
result. I restarted the server ... same problem. At the suggestion of
another that I saw in the archives, I removed all the Credit Card code in
hopes that would eliminate the problem. It did not. I verified that my
OrderProfile is correct in the cfg file. My profiles.order file also seems
to be in order (pardon the pun) according to the tutorial. I would
appreciate any help someone could provide. Thanks!

das

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das_Monkey at yahoo

Jan 15, 2001, 4:19 AM

Post #2 of 3 (634 views)

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Possible solution.

For whatever reason, the "pragma" in the profiles.order file don't appear
on the HTML version of the tutorial. Consequently, I didn't have __NAME__
and __END__ in my file. I noticed this when on a whim I decided to check
the pdf tutorial and see if there was a typo or something. I had to
restart the server, but it fixed the problem. You might consider fixing
that in the tut - it caused me hours of frustration.

Now if I could only figure out why I get the popular crypt() error :)

das

At 05:24 AM 1/15/01 -0500, you wrote:
>I am new to the entire Interchange product as of this morning. I
>installed everything correctly (to my knowledge) and was able to get the
>demos working without any trouble. I made it to section 12 of the
>tutorial without any trouble as well. After creating my
>special_pages/needfield.html page, I tried to test it without entering any
>data. The needfield.html page loaded, but no errors were listed. I
>entered all the data correctly, clicked Finished, and had the same
>result. I restarted the server ... same problem. At the suggestion of
>another that I saw in the archives, I removed all the Credit Card code in
>hopes that would eliminate the problem. It did not. I verified that my
>OrderProfile is correct in the cfg file. My profiles.order file also
>seems to be in order (pardon the pun) according to the tutorial. I would
>appreciate any help someone could provide. Thanks!
>
>das

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jon at akopia

Jan 15, 2001, 10:38 AM

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On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, das Monkey wrote:

> Possible solution.
>
> For whatever reason, the "pragma" in the profiles.order file don't appear
> on the HTML version of the tutorial. Consequently, I didn't have __NAME__
> and __END__ in my file. I noticed this when on a whim I decided to check
> the pdf tutorial and see if there was a typo or something. I had to
> restart the server, but it fixed the problem. You might consider fixing
> that in the tut - it caused me hours of frustration.

I apologize for the problems with both PDF and HTML documentation. There's
a new PDF up with the correct left brackets. Please download a new copy
before spending any more time on the tutorial.

The online HTML docs are fixed as well. The problem was that we are
serving the pages through Interchange and it actually interpolated
__NAME__ and __END__, which were nonexistent variables, and thus were
rendered as nothing. Thank you very much for finding that problem!

Jon