Increasing text field?

[OmarC]

I can't seem to find an answer to this question:

 

How can I increase the size of the text field when a customer goes to create an account?

 

It's apparently set to a length of 32 but I'd like to make it 50.

 

Thanks for your help....

[OmarC]

Does anyone know how to make the textfields longer when you signup for an account?

[ozcsys]

Does anyone know how to make the textfields longer when you signup for an account?

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If you want to increase the text field then access your database via phpmyadmin and find the field you want to change, click on edit and make your changes.

[OmarC]

I've actually tried that but am not sure if I am changing the right things. I've tried going into address_book, customers, customer_info and changed them all to a length of 255 but am not seeing any changes when I go to the "create account page".

 

Which one should I change via phpmyadmin?

[ozcsys]

I've actually tried that but am not sure if I am changing the right things.  I've tried going into address_book, customers, customer_info and changed them all to a length of 255 but am not seeing any changes when I go to the "create account page".

 

Which one should I change via phpmyadmin?

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Which fields do you want to be longer? You need to change each one seperatly. If you want to allow for a longer first name then you need to change the customers_firstname field.

[OmarC]

I'd like to make them all a bit longer...

 

Here is what I have set in my customers table:

 

customers_id int(11)

purchased_without_account tinyint(1) -- I installed PWA v0.82

customers_firstname varchar(60)

customers_lastname varchar(60)

customers_email_address varchar(60)

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.

.

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I've basically set every varchar to a length of 60 (as opposed to the original 32) but am not seeing any changes in the length of the text fields when I try to create an account.

 

Do you think this is something I need to hardcode or am I just missing something? Am I changing the info in the wrong table?

[OmarC]

I basically want to make the boxes where people enter their info wider. I just can't seem to get those darned text fields longer.

[ozcsys]

I basically want to make the boxes where people enter their info wider.  I just can't seem to get those darned text fields longer.

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Are you wanting to change the amount of charcaters that a customer can type in or how wide the boxes on the page are? These are two different things.

[OmarC]

I am wanting to do the later...

 

make the boxes on the page wider.

 

How do you do that?

[Guest]

I am wanting to do the later...

 

make the boxes on the page wider.

 

How do you do that?

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Yea i would also like to make the textboxes wider... How??? Any idea?

[OmarC]

Works like a charm!

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If all you are trying to do is change the width of the input fields, find this code in includes/functions/html_output.php

 

// Output a form input field 
function tep_draw_input_field($name, $value = '', $parameters = '', $type = 'text', $reinsert_value = true) {

 

The next line is:

$field = '<input type="' . tep_output_string($type) . '" name="' . tep_output_string($name) . '"';

 

Change it to:

$field = '<input type="' . tep_output_string($type) . '" name="' . tep_output_string($name) . '" size="XX"';

 

where XX is the desired width.

 

Jack