How to create a text area/combo box

[laszlo_m]

Hi,

 

I added some custom fields to the product table and I want one of them as a text area, same type as the product description combo box.

 

I found the code in catalog/admin/categories.php how the product description box is created but for some reason I can not convert it to my new field. I know the 'tep_draw_textarea_field' function is sitting in html_output.php but I have a hard time to setup the parameters the same way as the function requests it.

 

Can somebody help me with this? Or is there an easier way to create a text area, combo box?

 

I want to create the text area for products_compatibility field (defined as text). Content could be 300-500 character length.

 

Here is the code I found for the production description:

 

<tr>

<td class="main" valign="top"><?php if ($i == 0) echo TEXT_PRODUCTS_DESCRIPTION; ?></td>

<td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">

<tr>

<td class="main" valign="top"><?php echo tep_image(DIR_WS_CATALOG_LANGUAGES . $languages[$i]['directory'] . '/images/' . $languages[$i]['image'], $languages[$i]['name']); ?> </td>

<?php

?></td>

<td class="main"><?php if(HTML_AREA_WYSIWYG_DISABLE == 'Enable') {

echo tep_draw_fckeditor ('products_description[' . $languages[$i]['id'] . ']', '550', '300', (isset($products_description[$languages[$i]['id']]) ? stripslashes($products_description[$languages[$i]['id']]) : tep_get_products_description($pInfo->products_id, $languages[$i]['id']))) . '</td>';

} else {

echo tep_draw_textarea_field('products_description[' . $languages[$i]['id'].']','soft','70','15',(isset($products_description[$languages[$i]['id']]) ? stripslashes($products_description[$languages[$i]['id']]) : tep_get_products_description($pInfo->products_id, $languages[$i]['id']))) . '</td>';

}

// EOF: MOD WYSIWYG Editor ?>

</tr>

</table></td>

</tr>

 

 

This is the function:

 

// Output a form textarea field

function tep_draw_textarea_field($name, $wrap, $width, $height, $text = '', $parameters = '', $reinsert_value = true) {

$field = '<textarea name="' . tep_output_string($name) . '" wrap="' . tep_output_string($wrap) . '" cols="' . tep_output_string($width) . '" rows="' . tep_output_string($height) . '"';

 

if (tep_not_null($parameters)) $field .= ' ' . $parameters;

 

$field .= '>';

 

if ( (isset($GLOBALS[$name])) && ($reinsert_value == true) ) {

// LINE CHANGED: MS2 update 501112 - Added: tep_output_string_protected(...)

$field .= tep_output_string_protected(stripslashes($GLOBALS[$name]));

} elseif (tep_not_null($text)) {

// LINE CHANGED: MS2 update 501112 - Added: tep_output_string_protected(...)

$field .= tep_output_string_protected($text);

}

 

$field .= '</textarea>';

 

return $field;

}

 

Thanks,

 

Laszlo_M

[dittones]

Mayer,

 

This is the code you should use...you need a for loop to wrap your code since there are three

languages...

 

<?php

for ($i=0, $n=sizeof($languages); $i<$n; $i++) {

?>

<tr>

<td class="main" valign="top"><?php if ($i == 0) echo TEXT_PRODUCTS_DESCRIPTION; ?></td>

<td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">

<tr>

<td class="main" valign="top"><?php echo tep_image(DIR_WS_CATALOG_LANGUAGES . $languages[$i]['directory'] . '/images/' . $languages[$i]['image'], $languages[$i]['name']); ?> </td>

<td class="main"><?php echo tep_draw_textarea_field('products_description[' . $languages[$i]['id'] . ']', 'soft', '300', '500', (isset($products_description[$languages[$i]['id']]) ? stripslashes($products_description[$languages[$i]['id']]) : tep_get_products_description($pInfo->products_id, $languages[$i]['id']))); ?></td>

</tr>

</table></td>

</tr>

<?php

}

?>

 

 

I hope this helps

Roman

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