updating category name doesn't work

[seventech]

Hi,

 

I am fairly new to OSCommerce but I seem to have figured my way around most of it.

 

I am having some problems with an installation that was working fine and I can't think what has been changed.

 

When adding products I get the following errors when I try to preview it:

 

Warning: reset(): Passed variable is not an array or object in /usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs/porta-charge.co.uk/osc/admin/includes/classes/object_info.php on line 17

 

Warning: Variable passed to each() is not an array or object in /usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs/porta-charge.co.uk/osc/admin/includes/classes/object_info.php on line 18

 

Also, it ignores changes I makwe to category names. I assume the problems are related.

 

I've been trying to get to the bottomof the problem updating category names as this seemed the easier one to debug and I thought it might lead to a solution for the other problem.

 

I've checked the SQL code exected on the DB as a result of an update and it updates the categorie name to '' (blank string) where category_id = 0 (even though that is not the id of the category)

 

Lines 61 and 62 of /admin/categories.php read

 

for ($i=0, $n=sizeof($languages); $i<$n; $i++) {
         $categories_name_array = $HTTP_POST_VARS['categories_name'];

 

I can't see how this could possibly pick up the category name as the form input filed is called 'category_name[1]' not 'category_name'. I understand that the 1 represents the language id but I don't see where categories.php is readin in this value from the post.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks.