Adding additional Product Values

Hi folks

First off, my apologies if this is posted in the wrong forum. I have tried to search extensively for the answer to my question, but just absolutely can't figure it out, and I figured its related to a product attribute.

I have put up some products on my site, and everything is looking fine. Near the bottom of the product page, it shows product weight and number of units in stock, with little bullet points. I like this.
I want one more piece of info here - product size/dimensions.

Please bear in mind I don't want this as an option (customers can't choose between "Large", "Medium" "Small" etc) - I want it as a "standard description" part in the form, just like the weight and number of items in stock are quick product description points. These are standard product properties that will not change, but are handy for the customer to see at a glance.

So my question is - how can I add this? Must I go via product attributes? I had a quick look, and it would appear that attributes isn't exactly what I'm looking for - it's TOO customised.

Essentially I guess I would like to know how I can edit the "add product" page to include additional product property values.

Hope this question makes sense, and I really appreciate any help regarding this!

Seven

You would need to hijack an existing product item (maybe URL) OR create a new spot in the database for the new item .

Either would involve some serious work with database and tpl_ files.

Might want to post in commercial help wanted for this one.

shudder

Ok, never mind then! I'll just be happy to keep it in the description part of things, dont want to start dabbling in all of that. Thanks for the reply!

check out the thread on how to add new properties to your products.

stitchnkitty:

check out the thread on how to add new properties to your products.

Ah, thanks for that stitchnkitty, good advice.

I forget that Zen Cart forums have the "related topics" section at the bottom of posts. For anyone reading this post in the future, the most accurate related post is here, and the mod they are talking about, the Tabbed Products Pro (TPP) can be found in the downloads section here.

This is probably the simplest way to go about doing what we are looking for, unless you are up to doing "surgery" as per dbltoe's suggestion.

Huh, talk about coincidence.

Was searching on the forums for something else, and came across the "how to" to add new properties to general products.

Hopeful this forum posting will be helpful for some reading this message.