Quote by shetzel:Could someone else try this as described and see what happens?
well, I tried it. I wasn't able to reproduce that oddity. It worked properly for me and after all cats were disabled, there "was nothingness."
Only thing I can think of without actually being able to reproduce the problem, is that the value didn't get set on that category in the table. but that should never happen.
a quick way to see which cats are actually enabled without going into the db is to go to the add quote page. the categories are displayed there with disabled ones greyed over and all others are still bold black. you can check up on the miscellany cat there.
the "Status" field in the quotes table as well as the categories table are for moderation, while it is the "Status" field in the lookup table that is responsible for enabling/disabling categories. that means that a category will only be enabled or disabled if there is a quote belonging to that category (just an aside).
maybe if you can tell me how the miscellany category was created at first??? It isn't created by default, but once it is created (either by you or by the script under certain circumstances), then it functions ever so slightly different then all other categories. eg, not being able to be deleted.
hope some of that helps.. Let me know, K?
on the good side, disabling all cats did show me a problem with the cached quote function. an oversight that continues to show the cached quote though all categories it may belong to are disabled.