messageStack output not returning value sitewide

[patmanami]

Another impossible search it seems.

messageStack->output doesn't appear to be returning values/text although the size() method is getting tripped. Is there an admin value that I need to turn on/off for these values to be returned, or is there something else evil underneath the rug?

For example, on an unsuccessful login attempt, this call:

$messageStack->output('login')

did not return anything, so I had to override that value with plain text in the template. This is not the only page that is failing, all of the messageStack output calls are not happy.

Thanks much

[DrByte]

There are no admin settings for messageStack operation. If it's not working properly, then you've broken your code somewhere, often via a bad template, or PHP errors caused by syntax errors when altering code.
This is the best approach: http://www.zen-cart.com/wiki/index.p...Obscure_Issues
This may be useful too: https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=82

[patmanami]

I opted to add additional logging to the messageStack functions themselves to see if the add() and output() methods were returning useful data. I used the following statement to output the arrays where the messages were being stored (in the respective functions):

error_log(print_r($theAlert, true), 0);

error_log(print_r($output, true), 0);

So, indeed I was getting the correct array information and errors were being logged (error_log writes to your /cache directory at this point). That led me immediately to the tpl_message_stack_default.php file in which I had commented out the return logic so that the client would be happy while Authorize net was in testing mode.

Removed my local copy of the edited file and error messages are now appearing. Fantastic.

Likely doing a diff comparison of the entire directories would have eventually led me to this conclusion.

Thanks much Dr. Byte

Patrick