FAQ Manager

Hi,

I am running 1.38a and I have installed the "FAQ Manager", everything seems to work fine but when I go to "Submit A Question" the "Text Area" has a number written :shocking:

Thats what I see: http://homebasedgateway.com/~aktis/i...ge=faqs_submit

Anyone have any ideas about what could be causing this ?

Thank you
Alex

Hi Alex123,

your link provided shows 404 page not found.

regards,
kruna

I have fixed the error where a '5' shows in the submit form field. Thank you for reporting it. I also fixed a file naming error and repackaged the FAQ. It is attached.

Hi,

Sorry for my mistake with the link.

Here the correct one:
http://homebasedgateway.com/~aktis/index.php?main_page=faqs_submit

Hi Alex123,

I know the number is annoying and may confuse, but i guess it doesnt harm anything. You may have seen the previous post from mikedeezy33 that he fixed this issue. Try his zip...

hope this helps.

regards,
kruna

Hi Alex123,

off topic right now, but I would suggest you to delete or rename your zc_install folder as it says for security reasons.

regards,
kruna

Thank you for your suggestion Kruna. I just deleted the install directory.

I seem to be having a similar problem with the "News & Article Management"
I posted on their thread but there was no help.

Here is the problem:

http://homebasedgateway.com/~aktis/index.php?main_page=news_comments&article_id=2

I am getting a number inside the TextArea, plus the Text Area is very long and I have no idea where to look for fixing this.

If anyone could help me on this, I would be very grateful.

Thanks again
Alex

Hi Alex123,

as for the number I really have no clue, but must be in the fix from mikedeezy33, if he could point you into the right direction how he did in FAQ, should be same issue.

As for the texta area too long, you could change that in you stylesheet in line 84 it says

textarea (line 84)
{
margin-top: auto;
margin-right: auto;
margin-bottom: auto;
margin-left: auto;
display: block;
width: 95%;
}

just add

height: 25em;

after width. If it is still too long tha go less than 25em, if it is too short go more than 25em.

regards,
kruna

Alex123:

plus the Text Area is very long and I have no idea where to look for fixing this.

The output of the text area is in: /includes/templates/[your template]/tpl_faqs_submit_default.php on line 89 -

 echo zen_draw_textarea_field('faqs_description', 25, 5)

25 stands for the number of columns, 5 for the number of rows. If the text area is too wide, try changing the 25 to something else, like 15.

Has anyone had a chance to try my updates to the FAQ Manager? I am going to post it to the downloads section soon.

Okay, I installed this today...had the problem with the error 1054 and used andrew's fix that's waaaaaaaaay back in the thread. Got everything working fine....except for one minor annoyance.

Whenever you click a category now the main page shows up on top of the category you clicked. If people don't scroll down they'll think they just refreshed the page.

My site is http://www.serendipitydeals.com

Just click any category to see what I mean

BTW....since I forgot to mention....

I am running Zen-Cart 1.38a

Well, I temporarily fixed the problem by deleting faq_application_top.php and turning off the sidebox.

Obviously it doesn't FIX the problem since I can't use the FAQ manager due to this.

Anyone know a permanent solution?

NFM:

Okay, I installed this today...had the problem with the error 1054 and used andrew's fix that's waaaaaaaaay back in the thread. Got everything working fine....except for one minor annoyance.

Whenever you click a category now the main page shows up on top of the category you clicked. If people don't scroll down they'll think they just refreshed the page.

My site is http://www.serendipitydeals.com

Just click any category to see what I mean

NFM -
Did you use the version I modified? I am taking a look at your site now.

mikedeezy33:

NFM -
Did you use the version I modified? I am taking a look at your site now.

Yes, I used your version but had to modify three pages to get it to work. I don't remember which ones exactly but they are the three that andrew (a_berezin) said to modify. When I did that I got the FAQ sidebox to finally work. Then, I had the problem with the categories, the issue was that if you clicked a top level category it would load the "main page" over the top level category. In order to solve that problem I had to delete the faq_application_top.php file and turn off the sidebox, thereby setting me back at square one.

I did get your PM letting me know that the faqs_all page works, and I don't mind just using that....but now I gotta figure out how to get that link into the Information sidebox.

I seem to like to make things difficult....but I fixed my problem after quite a bit of searching for the last day or so....here's what I did

Read my last post....yea....I did all of that....next step was to get the General FAQ to show in the Information Sidebox....and to do that you'd have to hack a few files....I didn't feel like screwing up my site....soooo....

I turned EVERY link in my Information Sidebox into an "EZ Page" including the faqs_all page. I then removed the "Information" sidebox and put in the EZ Pages one which reads "Important Links".

Problemo solved!

NFM:

Yes, I used your version but had to modify three pages to get it to work.

Yeah I am not a fan of having a faq application top page, but then again I think the entire structure of this mod should be cleaned up. Since I don't have the time to do that right now I just added some minimal functionality and fixes. I will add the new files to the download section.

mikedeezy33:

I have fixed the error where a '5' shows in the submit form field. Thank you for reporting it. I also fixed a file naming error and repackaged the FAQ. It is attached.

Hi could you please explain what it is that is making this number to appear inside the text area?

I am having the same situation with the "News & Article Management ", I ask for help on the contribution's support thread but there was no answer.

I would greatly appreciate it, if you could lead me to the right direction in order to try and fix it.

Thank you,
Alex

The problem is likely in the call to:

 zen_draw_textarea_field('field_title', 25, 5);

This function is expecting the format of the values in the parenthesis to be:

function zen_draw_textarea_field($name, $width, $height, $text = '', $parameters = '', $reinsert_value = true)

Soo.... if you have too many numbers (arguments) listed, it is going to think that one of them is the text that should show in the area as text rather than what it was originally intended for - in this case to make the height of the text area 5 rows.

Thank you for the explanation.

I will look in to this to see if I can fix it and report back for others that might have similar problem

Thanks
Alex