what does this mean? Fatal error

[DrByte]

Are you saying I need to change this
include_once(DIR_WS_LANGUAGES . $_SESSION['language'] . '.php');
to
[COLOR=Red]include_once(DIR_WS_LANGUAGES . $_SESSION['language'] . 'english.php');

No. I'm saying that the error message you quoted is telling you that the include_once() line is LOOKING FOR the /includes/languages/english.php file on your server, but when it's going out to find it, it's not found.
Nothing wrong with the software code. You just have a missing file, which you'll need to put back onto the server.
Or, maybe it's still a permissions problem, and it can't find the file because permissions are set so low (ie: 000 or something bizarre) such that it can't even see the file, let alone try to open it.

Do you think this could be the problem of me being not able to add/update product descriptions

No idea.
Usually if english.php is missing you'll see all kinds of TEXT_BLAHBLAH and ENTRY_SOMETHING_BLAH etc stuff on the screen.

[maxy007]

No. I'm saying that the error message you quoted is telling you that the include_once() line is LOOKING FOR the /includes/languages/english.php file on your server, but when it's going out to find it, it's not found.
Nothing wrong with the software code. You just have a missing file, which you'll need to put back onto the server.
Or, maybe it's still a permissions problem, and it can't find the file because permissions are set so low (ie: 000 or something bizarre) such that it can't even see the file, let alone try to open it.

That's strange because english.php is there and the permissions are 644.

No idea.
Usually if english.php is missing you'll see all kinds of TEXT_BLAHBLAH and ENTRY_SOMETHING_BLAH etc stuff on the screen.

No I'm not getting that I just can't update my product descriptions. any text that has ; or . or : or ' etc after it does not stick

[DrByte]

Very odd. This is where I usually go at this point:
http://www.zen-cart.com/wiki/index.p...Obscure_Issues