Additional Customers Fields

[TheOracle]

Text boxes and TextArea boxes gathers all data from the database. Pull down menus and radio buttons still gathers the data from the database by masking the original values with your questions used with _content['your_field'] at the end related with the _title['your_field'] by using the arrays.

[esugrue]

Text boxes and TextArea boxes gathers all data from the database. Pull down menus and radio buttons still gathers the data from the database by masking the original values with your questions used with _content['your_field'] at the end related with the _title['your_field'] by using the arrays.

I've decided to give up trying to install this mod. A shame because I can see the value in it, but after 5 days I'm admitting defeat.

[TheOracle]

Well, if you ever decide to keep it, you can always send me an installation note by email (see the installation text file) so that I could implement the first field for you for a small fee.

[Bjorn]

Hi Oracle,

Fantastic Mod. I'm having issues with pull down Menu's. The age sample is not working correctly, it displays an empty textbox instead of a pulldown with the age list.

Could you verify the php command in includes/templates/my_template/templates/tpl_account_edit_default.php to be

<?php echo zen_draw_input_field('customers_age', $account->fields['customers_age'], 'id="customers_age"'); ?>

For drop down menu's, I am not a PHP programmer but I have a hunch that the command is not correct. Should we be using zen_draw_pull_down instead?

Bjorn

[TheOracle]

It wasn't a coding error actually. My personal example was simply stated under input type for the customers age field. However, if you wish to reform that entry into a dropdown selection form, you can use the built-in function from the DEV team called: zen_draw_pull_down_menu function. There's a good example you can use from your overrided tpl_modules_create_account.php file you can use.

[Bjorn]

Thanks Oracle. Perhaps you could help me with the pull down function?

Sample provided;

zen_draw_pull_down_menu('zone_id', zen_prepare_country_zones_pull_down($selected_country), $zone_id, 'id="stateZone"'); 

Altered;

zen_draw_pull_down_menu('customers_age', $account->array['customers_age'], 'id="customers_age"'); 

Dropdown shows XX, I know the altered drop down is incorrect. Any ideas?

Bjorn

[TheOracle]

$account->array['customers_age']

Array ?

As stated from my template example, both shows as:

$account->fields['customers_age'] 

[Bjorn]

Not sure what you mean. Template example is as follows;

<?php echo zen_draw_input_field('customers_age', '', zen_set_field_length(TABLE_CUSTOMERS, 'entry_customers_age', '40') . ' id="customers_age"'); ?>

I'm obviously not understanding something here?

Why would the customers_age example be a textfield if we're using a dropdown function in the admin? This is just confusing? Was the age sample not meant to be a dropdown but rather a textfield?

[TheOracle]

Sorry. I do not give support for template customization. This problem is not related to the MOD specifically. You're simply trying to switch from an input type into a SELECT list. Please see the wiki documentation, FAQs, PDF Documentation for more info on how to customize these forms within your template files.

Was the age sample not meant to be a dropdown but rather a textfield?

Incorrect. They were meant to be one of them (your choice between those two - which is why arrays were built in the first place).

Thanks.

[Bjorn]

Odd. I'm not looking for custom template support but rather how to get the drop down working for the sample. The customer_age sample on my create account screen does not show a drop down but a textfield for input.

Everything else works except the dropdown.

Bjorn