Quote Originally Posted by Woodymon View Post
Good detective work Q.

If my memory serves me well, someone reported the varied success of Tools > Install SQL Patches has to do with how magicquotes is configured/supported on the host.

Similar issues plague the patch install process for other mods. I don't recall observing these kinds of issues on 1.2x. Only on 1.3x. I'm hoping an expert could chime in and explain the issue and suggest best practice workarounds.

Woody
Oddly, I thought I remember removing the magic quotes back in version 3.1 because they allegedly aren't needed. But I dl'd v3.8 today from the zen-cart downloads area, and the magic quotes were still there. But even when i did remove them and try it again, it still errored until I manually added the prefix.

I guess the best way would be to just make an installer.php file like Easy Populate has. Then it can do logic checks for what database stuff is there or not and populate it the more stable way.