Magento & vertnav extension

Question

Hi all,

I'm working on a magento project (v1.3.2.3) and i've installed the vertnav extension.

Contents vertnav.xml:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<layout version="0.1.0">
    <default>
        <reference name="left">
            <block type="vertnav/navigation" name="catalog.vertnav" template="vertnav/left.phtml" before="-" />
        </reference>
    </default>
</layout>

This should show the vertnav on every page (correct me if im wrong)

Something weird is happening when changing error reporting from "E_ALL | E_STRICT" to "E_ALL | ~E_STRICT" in index.php

When set to E_ALL | E_STRICT the vertnav is NOT showed in the left bar.

When set to E_ALL | ~E_STRICT vertnav becomes visible.

I think this is really weird behaviour, hoping someone knows more about it.

Other blocks behave like normal.

Another issue we run into, and proberly related to this. We get a strict warning (only variables can be passed by reference; something like that) when accessing the admin directory (only on the live server), this is why we're considering to set error_reporting to ~E_STRICT.

Offcourse our goal is to leave error_reporting set to E_ALL | E_STRICT but vertnav should be visible and admin accessible.

Going crazy :-)

// Roland

Answer 1

I'm not sure how this could be related to this at all.

But just one quick hint: if you want to set error reporting to E_ALL but not E_STRICT use:

E_ALL & ~E_STRICT

instead of:

E_ALL | ~E_STRICT

It might not make any difference, but that's the proper way to work with bitmasks(for more informations see this).

Also have you checked the contents of the Magento log file?

Path: install_dir/var/log/system.log