Input width size in Admin

[DrByte]

Sorry, I missed where you changed topics. :)

You started out specifically asking about how to increase the size of Products Name. Then you changed it to be talking about completely NEW fields. So, that suggests that your problem is in your custom code.

Is it possible that your custom programming is missing the code that tells it how long to make the fields?

I just duplicated the products_model code, after creating fields f1 and f2 with size 32 and 64, and it displays fine:

            <td class="main"><?php echo zen_draw_separator('pixel_trans.gif', '24', '15') . '&nbsp;' . zen_draw_input_field('products_model', htmlspecialchars(stripslashes($pInfo->products_model), ENT_COMPAT, CHARSET, TRUE), zen_set_field_length(TABLE_PRODUCTS, 'products_model')); ?></td>
            <td class="main"><?php echo zen_draw_separator('pixel_trans.gif', '24', '15') . '&nbsp;' . zen_draw_input_field('f1', htmlspecialchars(stripslashes($pInfo->f1), ENT_COMPAT, CHARSET, TRUE), zen_set_field_length(TABLE_PRODUCTS, 'f1')); ?></td>
            <td class="main"><?php echo zen_draw_separator('pixel_trans.gif', '24', '15') . '&nbsp;' . zen_draw_input_field('f2', htmlspecialchars(stripslashes($pInfo->f2), ENT_COMPAT, CHARSET, TRUE), zen_set_field_length(TABLE_PRODUCTS, 'f2')); ?></td>

[Kevin205]

It is very much possible. I will give it try.

[Kevin205]

Thank you DrByte.

I had it as

<td class="main"><?php echo zen_draw_separator('pixel_trans.gif', '24', '13') . '&nbsp;' . zen_draw_input_field('f1', $pInfo->f1, ''); ?></td>

so when I revised them to what you suggested, it expanded:
the 32 character field to 30 characters input box and
the 96 character field to 45 characters input box.


Also Product Name shows only 45 characters instead of 64? Following is the code:

<?php
    for ($i=0, $n=sizeof($languages); $i<$n; $i++) {
?>
          <tr>
            <td class="main"><?php if ($i == 0) echo TEXT_PRODUCTS_NAME; ?></td>
            <td class="main"><?php echo zen_image(DIR_WS_CATALOG_LANGUAGES . $languages[$i]['directory'] . '/images/' . $languages[$i]['image'], $languages[$i]['name']) . '&nbsp;' . zen_draw_input_field('products_name[' . $languages[$i]['id'] . ']', htmlspecialchars(isset($products_name[$languages[$i]['id']]) ? stripslashes($products_name[$languages[$i]['id']]) : zen_get_products_name($pInfo->products_id, $languages[$i]['id']), ENT_COMPAT, CHARSET, TRUE), zen_set_field_length(TABLE_PRODUCTS_DESCRIPTION, 'products_name')); ?></td>
          </tr>
<?php
    }
?>

It seems to limit them to a maximum of 45 characters!

Any way to view all characters?

[DrByte]

Zen Cart is not limiting those fields. You'll see that the generated HTML is not doing the limiting.
The browser is probably to blame. Or maybe you have some CSS rules that are limiting the displayed size.

[Kevin205]

I will look around and will let you know if I discover anything. Thank you.

[Kevin205]

Another questions

I have created an additional field in the zen_products called products_ship_info with the following attributes:
Type: text
Collattion: utf8_general_ci
Null: Yes
Default: NULL

I can not get it to display properly in admin>Product Description. I am using the following in admin/includes/modules/product/collect_info.php :

<?php
    for ($i=0, $n=sizeof($languages); $i<$n; $i++) {
?>
          <tr>
            <td class="main" valign="top"><?php echo 'Product Ship Info: ' ?></td>
            <td colspan="2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
              <tr>
                <td class="main" width="25" valign="top"><?php echo zen_image(DIR_WS_CATALOG_LANGUAGES . $languages[$i]['directory'] . '/images/' . $languages[$i]['image'], $languages[$i]['name']); ?>&nbsp;</td>
                <td class="main" width="100%"><?php echo zen_draw_textarea_field('products_ship_info[' . $languages[$i]['id'] . ']', 'soft', '100%', '30', htmlspecialchars((isset($products_ship_info[$languages[$i]['id']])) ? stripslashes($products_ship_info[$languages[$i]['id']]) : zen_get_products_ship_info($pInfo->products_id, $languages[$i]['id']), ENT_COMPAT, CHARSET, TRUE));  ?></td>
              </tr>
            </table></td>
          </tr>
<?php
    }
?>

When I load this the page breaks after displaying Product Ship Info: and error log shows the following:

[03-Jul-2013 19:06:16 UTC] PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function zen_get_products_ship_info() in path\Store\admin\includes\modules\product\collect_info.php on line 331 

Line 331 is the beginning of the PHP code.
.

[DrByte]

? stripslashes($products_ship_info[$languages[$i]['id']]) : zen_get_products_ship_info($pInfo->products_id, $languages[$i]['id']), ENT_COMPAT, CHARSET, TRUE))

Why are you using zen_get_products_ship_info( as a function?

[Kevin205]

No I am trying to show the field products_ship_info, there is no function involved.

I have added 3 other fields to the zen_products table, without any issues. The only difference here is products_ship_info field type here is text and the other 3 i added were varchar() type with different lengths.

I wanted the products_ship_info to be an expandable text field, not limited by the number of characters. That is why i followed the products_description method to display the data in admin.

[Kevin205]

When I use:

<td class="main"><?php echo 'Product Ship Info: '; ?></td>
<td class="main"><?php echo zen_draw_separator('pixel_trans.gif', '24', '15') . '&nbsp;' . zen_draw_input_field('products_ship_info',
 htmlspecialchars(stripslashes($pInfo->products_ship_info), ENT_COMPAT, CHARSET, TRUE), zen_set_field_length(TABLE_PRODUCTS, 'products_ship_info')); ?></td>

I get a 5 character input text box, but I need to display a text area under admin and finally in product_info_display.

[Kevin205]

Fixed it. I replaced zen_draw_input_field by zen_draw_textarea_field

<td class="main"><?php echo 'Product Ship Info: '; ?></td>
<td class="main"><?php echo zen_draw_separator('pixel_trans.gif', '24', '15') . '&nbsp;' . zen_draw_textarea_field('products_ship_info',
 htmlspecialchars(stripslashes($pInfo->products_ship_info), ENT_COMPAT, CHARSET, TRUE), zen_set_field_length(TABLE_PRODUCTS, 'products_ship_info')); ?></td>

Thank you DrByte