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#1 2006-03-01 03:50:38
- zem
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Tags that should produce an error, but don't
Most of Textpattern’s tags were written before we had a useful way of displaying error messages (debug/test/live mode didn’t appear until after the 4.0 release). This means there are a bunch of tags that fail silently when something goes wrong, rather than alerting the user that there’s a problem.
We don’t need detailed test or bug reports for these, since the symptoms are the same (expected result is an appropriate error message; actual result is no tag output). Instead, all we need for most of these is a clear example of a tag that should produce an error (but doesn’t).
Here’s a few to get the ball rolling:
In a non-article context (e.g. on a section or category list page):
<txp:title />
<txp:excerpt />
<txp:body />
<txp:permlink>plink</txp:permlink>Anywhere:
<txp:section name="no_such_section" />
<txp:category name="no_such_category" />Alex
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Re: Tags that should produce an error, but don't
txp:output_form without a form attribute dies too silently, IMHO. I have a habit of assigning form and name attributes deliberately and scratch my head for minutes afterwards.
Last edited by wet (2006-03-07 19:50:40)
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