help FX_error message

[mlindal]

Fatal error: Cannot use object of type FX_Error as array in D:Apachehtdocsnewpubs_e.php on line 107

This error message just started appear on our newsearch page.

[mlindal]

This has been solved for the record:

Cause - a bad character had been entered into the database. FX.php didn't like it and choked. Most likely this happened because someone copied some text from MS Word that contained the bad characters and pasted it into filemaker. This may be fixed in UTF-8.

Next point made by Chris Hansen is that all FX.php users should invoke error checking in their data.

Here is his note:

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The only way you'd see this is if you're not performing error

checking on the data that comes back from FX.php. (Gasp!) Even though you want to assume that things will always work properly, you should always do a check like this in your code:

if (FX::isError($myReturnedData)) {

...handle errors gracefully here...

}

This is a general heads up to the list: _always_ perform error checking! HTH

--Chris Hansen