DB choking on duplicate category names

[anonymousbugger]

I was making sub-cats for a section of my blog when I tried to make a "Funny" category. I already had one, and instead of a nice "Sorry, name already taken" error, I got "BLARGHHGRHHRHGHRHHGH DATABASE ERROR YOU FOOL!!!!!"

bascially, it's just not premptivly checking for duplicates and returning a nasty error.

• Jeff Minard

[idanso]

Added a patch to check if a category named $cat_name already exists. If so, die nicely

[anonymousbugger]

there is no "dieing nicely" ;)

Probably should be patched to simply return false an then echo a message at the top of the pane in a *red* highlight box (much like the blue one that you get on a successful operation) that reads: "Duplicate category names aren't allowed. Please, be a little more original."

(ok, so maybe that's not the right wording for the error message...)

Jeff

[filosofo]

Fixed in 2.0 and later, which versions allow you to create more than one category of the same name, with no db error.