product extra fields

[lions1855]

I'm not an expert on PHP programming. But, my question is how hard is it to add extra fields to product display.

For example, I started using tabbed_products which seems to work for manual entering product information.

However, for large scale products addition, it takes many hours to make any data entry into the database.

My inventory supplier has given me an excel sheet with all the information that I will need to populate my database. But, there are a few additional columns that contains valuable information (Technical and Warranty information ). These new columns do not exist on zen cart and it will not match with zen-cart importing system.

I need to add just two new areas:

Technical Information
Product Warranty

Any help on this matter is gladly appreciated. You can email me at [email protected]

Thanks

[CoolCarPartsOnline]

Check out this mod: http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?ma...roducts_id=271

You can use it out of the box or you can change the places where it reference to short description and duplicated as many times as you want. I personally have 5 additional fields added using this simple mod.

You will also need to edit the sql patch accordingly.

If you are using the tabbed mod and want the text to be displayed on the description tab you need to edit tabbed product module and call the field from database in there. Description tab content is found around line 465 on tabbed pro.

[lions1855]

As I mentioned above, I'm PHP programmer challenge. You may it sound like so simple. However, I do not know where to even start.

Which files needs to be modified?

[CoolCarPartsOnline]

You start by downloading the mod and explore all the files in it, they will reference to short description in different ways as this mod allow you to display the additional field in multiple pages such as product_listing, new_products, product_info etc.

This mod does exactly what you want out of the box if you find hard to understand then you might want to look for a developer to install it for you.

[lions1855]

If I create two extra columns, on the same product table, in theory I should be able to point these php files to the new column(s)?

Or, on the other hand, could you be this developer?

you can send a quote at my email address.

Thanks

[CoolCarPartsOnline]

You can email me a quote request on my web development website with more details and examples of what you need done. I see if I can get it done for you.

[DML73]

Check out this mod: http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?ma...roducts_id=271

You can use it out of the box or you can change the places where it reference to short description and duplicated as many times as you want. I personally have 5 additional fields added using this simple mod.

You will also need to edit the sql patch accordingly.

If you are using the tabbed mod and want the text to be displayed on the description tab you need to edit tabbed product module and call the field from database in there. Description tab content is found around line 465 on tabbed pro.

Would you know how to make the short text description longer than only 255 characters? And also make the text field on the products page in admin larger?