Formating Text Area Attribute

[mdegeiso]

I'm using a text attribute of 35 characters max and 3 rows and having two problems with it.

First: The carraige returns are being counted as characters. I can explain spaces being counted to customers but not carraige returns. I am not charging per letter but I do want to allow for an acurate entry.
http://storefront.gwrradea.org/index...&products_id=2


Second: The format of the entry when sent to email, packing slip, invoice or viewed through the order details in the administrator are not justified properly. Attached is a picture of how they are being formatted with lines 2 and 3 left justified under line 1. Is there any way to have lines 2 and 3 line up under line 1?



Thanks
Mike

[Ajeh]

This would be an unexpected feature ...

Some call it a bug ...

I am moving this to the Bug Reports ...

Thanks for spotting this, no one else has up until now and that has been there for a long, long time ...

[Ajeh]

The solution to this is to backup your file:
/includes/functions/functions_prices.php

Find the four functions for calculate letter or words and add as the first line to them:

    $string = str_replace(array("\r\n", "\n", "\r", "\t"), "", $string); 

NOTE: each are commented with:
// calculate words
// calculate letters

See if this doesn't fix the calculations for you ...

This is a temporary solution at this time ... but will result in the correct pricing for you ...

[mdegeiso]

okay, I tried that and nothing worked. Below is one of the functions along with the code I inserted:

// calculate letters
function zen_get_letters_count($string, $free=0) {
$string = str_replace(array("\r\n", "\n", "\r", "\t"), "", $string);
while (strstr($string, ' ')) $string = str_replace(' ', ' ', $string);
$string = trim($string);
if (TEXT_SPACES_FREE == '1') {
$letters_count = strlen(str_replace(' ', '', $string));
} else {
$letters_count = strlen($string);
}
if ($letters_count - $free >= 1) {
return ($letters_count - $free);
} else {
return 0;
}
}


I wasn't sure if the line you sent needed to be the first line after the function call or if it needed to be directly after the comment but I tried both, refreshed the page and nothing changed. As a matter of fact. I'm noticing it is actually two characters that are used for the carraige return. I type in 1234 with the 35 limit and when I hit the return the count drops from 31 to 29. Sorry for the miss on that.

Mike

[Ajeh]

  function zen_get_word_count($string, $free=0) {
    $string = str_replace(array("\r\n", "\n", "\r", "\t"), ' ', $string); 

  function zen_get_letters_count($string, $free=0) {
    $string = str_replace(array("\r\n", "\n", "\r", "\t"), ' ', $string); 

Note: the java counter also needs an update in the:
/includes/modules/pages/product_info/jscript_textarea_counter.js

/* javascript function to update form field
 *  field		form field that is being counted
 *  count		form field that will show characters left
 *  maxchars 	maximum number of characters
*/
function characterCount(field, count, maxchars) {
  var realchars = field.value.replace(/\t|\r|\n|\r\n/g,'');
  var excesschars = realchars.length - maxchars;
  if (excesschars > 0) {
		field.value = field.value.substring(0, excesschars);
		alert("Error:\n\n- You are only allowed to enter up to"+maxchars+" characters.");
	} else {
		count.value = maxchars - realchars.length;
	}
}

The functions fix the price ...

The java fixes the counter in the box ...