textarea modification

[Pablosan]

I found this thread in archives http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13398

Explaining how to add a text box as an attribute rather than just a line.
Only problem is in 1.3.7 there is no includes/modules/pages/product_info/main_template_vars_attributes.php file

I do look before I come begging for help
So it isn't working for me.

I just need to add a text box as an attribute for detailed instructions and the one liner doesn't work.

Just like the comment section in checkout but it needs to be an attribute for the specific product as they may be getting more than one product at a time.

Any ideas?

[Pablosan]

Ok I was confused by that last thread ( geared towards olders versions )
In 1.3.7 you just make option values longer ( 255 ) and add rows.

But now I'm presented with two more problems.

1) the long text attribute makes checkout run off the page. It displays all 255 characters in a row.

In this thread http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=38386
There is this solution

You're welcome! One other tip - I removed the <nobr> that was wrapping the attribute option value in tpl_checkout_confirmation.php around line 110 so that long message values wrap rather than push the page out.

However my file is named tpl_checkout_confirmation_default.php and there no reference to <nobr> in there. So where would I fix that?

2) The comments in product name are truncated when displyed on the page I think to 64.

Thanks.

[Pablosan]

Solved problem two

Seems your comment is being cut of because it is being stored in products_options_comment in the table products_options. The field is only set to VARCHAR(64) and will truncate anything beyond 64 characters. You could increase the size of that field with something like:

Code:
ALTER TABLE `products_options` CHANGE `products_options_comment` `products_options_comment` VARCHAR( 128 ) NULL DEFAULT NULL;
which would give you 128 characters.

Still have problem 1 I don't know where to edit to keep the page from running in checkout.

[Pablosan]

Maybe some pictures will illustrate the problem.

Still haven't found out what to edit. It happens in checkout after you input 255 characters into the text box on the product info page. The above solution doesn't work.

Thanks.

[Ajeh]

Other than supercalifragilisticexpialidocius what large words are you expecting to be added?

[Pablosan]

Instructions that may be long. They need to be specific for the product as an attribute. The comment oncheckout wont work because there may be several products and thats just confusing.

There was a solution as described above but like I said that code isn't in my tpl.

[Ajeh]

I always add a space between my words so that it is clearer to read ...

Try the 250 characters and breath between every 6th to 12th character ... see if that doesn't look nicer ...

[Pablosan]

Darn!!! I beat my brains tryin to figure that out.

It was the lack of spaces.

Thanks. I would have been diggin at it forever.

[Ajeh]

Wonder how I know about that nasty little test?

Thanks for the update and happy testing!!