error logging: does ZC generate any error logging anywhere?

[cyberbaffled]

That's the question. Before I spring for a cPanel hosted account, does ZC have any capability to log errors? The information in the Cache file is useless for tracking errors.

[gilby]

That's the question. Before I spring for a cPanel hosted account, does ZC have any capability to log errors? The information in the Cache file is useless for tracking errors.

When you say its useless...
What sort of errors are you trying track?
php?
mysql?
payment processing?
logic?
etc?

Lat9 has created a number of addons that enhance error tracking...

[mc12345678]

Also, what version of ZC are you trying to refer? For any version >= 1.5.1 I would agree that the cache directoryis useless for tracking errors. :)

[cyberbaffled]

Part of the problem is that I can't tell what variety the error is. Is it php syntax or database related? For example, my site -not yet formally released- crashes, but the debug log specifies a line of code that's syntactically correct. However, "useless" is probably a categorical misnomer, because what I need is the succession of code executed before the troublesome line is reached. Also, I now realize that although my shared hosting account doesn't give me php.ini privileges, it doesn't prevent me from writing successions of informative strings to a new file I create, which I'm now attempting. I will check out lat9's addons. I'm using version 1.50 Thanks greatly for your prompt response.

[lat9]

You could try installing myDEBUG Backtrace (http://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=1879), which updates Zen Cart's debug logging to include exactly what it says ... a backtrace on all errors/warnings.