How can I make the product names longer?

11 Mar 2011, 7:27 PM

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ttmb33

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How can I make the product names longer?

Some of my products have longer names. Please show me how to make it fit. Thanks for your help.

11 Mar 2011, 8:19 PM

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Re: How can I make the product names longer?

This may help http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=41634

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6 Apr 2011, 8:10 AM

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Re: How can I make the product names longer?

You will need to go to your database via myphpadmin and change the table character length from what i think its set at 64. I changed mine to 255.

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29 Apr 2011, 8:15 AM

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Re: How can I make the product names longer?

Note that you'll want to do this in the admin side in orders so it'll be the same if you care for that.

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29 Apr 2011, 7:06 PM

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Re: How can I make the product names longer?

willie bee:

Note that you'll want to do this in the admin side in orders so it'll be the same if you care for that.

Good point... You need to make sure that ALL fields in the DB that use the Product Name, must have identical VARCHAR lengths.

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1 May 2011, 2:14 AM

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Re: How can I make the product names longer?

I changed mine to 255 through phpmyadmin....I'm not sure where to go to change the VARCHAR length "on the admin side" Please explain....thx

1 May 2011, 2:17 PM

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Re: How can I make the product names longer?

It is in the database tables ...

Check the table for:
orders_products

the field:
products_name

in that table needs to be changed too ...

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