How-To: Add new Properties to your Products

[DrByte]

Dr, I followed the step by step guide religiously and updated all the pages mentioned. The setup works when its written as an input field, but when I try to set this up as a text area, it disregards the data and nothing is listed.

Does it actually store the data fine, but just doesn't re-display it on the Edit screen again?

[DrByte]

The syntax for zen_draw_textarea_field() is different than for zen_draw_input_field()

zen_draw_input_field($fieldname, $defaultValue)

vs

zen_draw_textarea_field($fieldname, 'soft', '100%', '5', $defaultValue)

where 'soft' should be left as 'soft'
'100%' is the width setting
'5' is the number of rows the field should display

So, you can't just change "input" to "textarea" unless you also change the parameters list.

[dharrison]

Hi Doctor

I made the following change:

<?php echo zen_draw_textarea_field('products_tinfo[' . $languages[$i]['id'] . ']', 'soft', '100%', '10', $pInfo->products_tinfo, zen_set_field_length(TABLE_PRODUCTS, 'products_tinfo')); ?>

and adjusted the products_tinfo to the products table as 'text' and 'null' which for input was 'varchar (32)'

Apologies for the confusion. I did post all this info on a new thread which quite rightly, got removed (I was unsure if anyone would respond to a thread that was several years old).

[dharrison]

Does it actually store the data fine, but just doesn't re-display it on the Edit screen again?

It doesn't re-display on the edit screen, the website or the MySQL record. It just completely disregards it.

[DrByte]

<?php echo zen_draw_textarea_field('products_tinfo[' . $languages[$i]['id'] . ']', 'soft', '100%', '10', $pInfo->products_tinfo, zen_set_field_length(TABLE_PRODUCTS, 'products_tinfo')); ?>

Are you intending to treat this field as language-specific?
If not, then remove the [ and ] and the stuff in between.

[dharrison]

It works!!! That was the issue.

Thankyou so much.

[MCS_Computers]

I know this is over 2 years old but here is my situation.

I'm running the latest Zen Cart and using the Responsive Sheffield Blue template.

I have successfully imported 10,000 products into my database of my new site and have it laid out well thanks to this community. I have used EP4 to import the data and have set my options in EP4 to include a user defined product field and I have imported the data I want to that field, that it working fine.

What I would like is to include this data (if possible) in the details tab like this ...



Obviously not in red LOL. After the : I would like it to get the data from the new field in the products table, the extra field is ink_ml and as said before already has the data relevant to the product.

I have followed this thread that was done back in 2015 by crazy_chris but ended up with an error on the product page so I`m not sure if anything has changed since that was written. Has anyone done a step by step guide to achieve this ??

Many thanks in advance to any help ;)

[mc12345678]

I know this is over 2 years old but here is my situation.

I'm running the latest Zen Cart and using the Responsive Sheffield Blue template.

I have successfully imported 10,000 products into my database of my new site and have it laid out well thanks to this community. I have used EP4 to import the data and have set my options in EP4 to include a user defined product field and I have imported the data I want to that field, that it working fine.

What I would like is to include this data (if possible) in the details tab like this ...



Obviously not in red LOL. After the : I would like it to get the data from the new field in the products table, the extra field is ink_ml and as said before already has the data relevant to the product.

I have followed this thread that was done back in 2015 by crazy_chris but ended up with an error on the product page so I`m not sure if anything has changed since that was written. Has anyone done a step by step guide to achieve this ??

Many thanks in advance to any help ;)

What is the error?

[MCS_Computers]

When the product was clicked all I got was a white screen with the word error at the top.

I went and checked I had put the code on correctly and made sure there was no spaces after the code, everything seemed to be in order, my first reaction was that maybe one of the files had been taken over by the theme.

[mc12345678]

When the product was clicked all I got was a white screen with the word error at the top.

I went and checked I had put the code on correctly and made sure there was no spaces after the code, everything seemed to be in order, my first reaction was that maybe one of the files had been taken over by the theme.

Thought this had been provided previously in another thread related to a different issue, but follow the below instructions when presented with a blank screen or partial blank screen. Even if the issue is a little different than that, you can expect to find assistance in following it: http://www.zen-cart.com/content.php?124-blank-page