Quote Originally Posted by kdwhd View Post
Having similar problem once upgraded to 1.5.3 ...

[10-Nov-2014 12:18:51] PHP Fatal error: 1054:Unknown column 'status' in 'where clause' :: select countries_id, countries_name
from vrz_countries where status != 0 order by countries_name ==> (as called by) /home3/XXX/public_html/XXX/includes/functions/functions_lookups.php on line 47 <== in /home3/XXX/public_html/XXX/includes/classes/db/mysql/query_factory.php on line 155
Zen Cart v1.5.3 was updated to include "Selectable Countries", which added the 'status' column to the Zen Cart "countries" table. It sounds like you didn't run the database upgrade script when you performed the upgrade.