[FX.php List] Error 958: Parameter missing in query

Wed May 21 08:42:56 MDT 2008

That error I get too, on some occations, it's not really an error but
a warning, in an FMNew() the new record is always created,
but there was something wrong with the UTF-8 encoding.

ggt667

2008/5/20 Erik Andreas Cayré <erik.cayre at dagkort.dk>:
> Hi all,
>
> Recently, a problem has come to my attention, which has (unfortunately)
> bugged a site I have built for just over a year.
>
> In some rare cases, when a customer attempts to place an order on the site,
> FX throws a 958 error.
>
> I have been digging for possible causes, and now have a theory which I'd
> like your comments on.
>
> Last year this issue came up on the list, and it was identified as caused by
> the webpage containing the form to be POSTed lacking the following:
> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
> I have checked my source code, and it does indeed have this META tag
> included:
>
>> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
>> "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
>> <html lang="da">
>> <head>
>>        <link media="screen" href="admin/files/css/structure.css"
>> rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
>>        <link rel="StyleSheet" href="inc/the_sheet.css" type="text/css"
>> media="screen">
>>
>>        <link rel="icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
>>        <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
>>
>>        <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"
>> src="inc/functions.js"></script>
>>        <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
>>        <title>Dagkort.dk - Kvittering: Ugekort, Jels
>> Fiskeriforening</title>
>>        <meta name="generator" content="BBEdit 8.0">
>>        <meta name="author" content="Erik Cayr&eacute;">
>>        <meta name="keywords" content="dagkort.dk, dag-kort.dk, dagkort,
>> ...
>
> When I catch errors in the site's operation, I have it send an email with
> information which might be used to identify and fix the problem.
> Looking over 145 instances of this error, I have found only one common
> factor: the string ".NET CLR 1.1.4322" in the user-agent identification.
> Complete sample here:
>                Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1;
> SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.2)
> You may notice that in my source HTML, the META tag appears before the title
> tag.
> My current theory is that the .NET framework (or whatever) which is common
> to all the errors I have seen, somehow doesn't like my HTML source.
> Before writing this message, I have amended my code to swap the positions of
> the tags, such that the TITLE tag appears before the META tag.
> Unfortunately, I have no ready access to a Windows PC with the exact same
> .NET framework installed to test the problem. So I'll have to wait and see.
>
> All comments are welcome;-)
> regards
> ---
> Erik Andreas Cayré
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