Text Area Product Attribute?

[Guest]

I run a site that sells wedding invitations. blissink.com

 

I am looking for a contribution that allows my customers to input the text they want on their wedding invitations.

 

So far I have found Option Type Feature here:

 

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,160

 

The limitations are that I can only have one or a series of 32 character lines.

 

What I am looking for is something like this:

 

http://www.blissink.com/paradise_invitation_order.html

 

where my customers can type their text in a box and have it show up as an attribute in the cart and in the order.

 

I am thinking that I could just use a series of these 32 character lines, which may work but it would be easier for the customer to just type away in a box, much like the comments box in OsC.

 

Anyone know of a contrib that could handle this? Or how to mod the Option Type Feature to allow a textarea instead of a text input form field?

 

Cheers

[defender39]

I believe the triple listing is a language problem...are you using 3 languages?

 

Someone in the thread posted a fix I think.

[♥ecartz]

I've made a 255 character text area before. I'll see if I can find the code. If so, I'll add it to the File Upload contribution.

 

Basically, you need to change the option value name field in customers_basket_attributes and orders_products_attributes to be varchar(255) and add an option type for text areas.

 

Hth,

Matt

[Guest]

defender39 - I am only using 1 language - English

 

ecartz - Thanks. If you could post the code when you find it I think I'll understand more clearly. I am really green on php but am willing to get in over my head :blink:

 

So you think I will be able to get a text area like in this example?

 

http://www.blissink.com/paradise_invitation_order.html

 

I guess I will need a few differnt named text areas like:

1.)invitation text

2.)reception card text

3.)save the date text

4.)return address

 

You may be wondering why I need a new cart system if I already have one that works?

 

I really like the modules and contribs in OsC - especially the fed-ex and payflow link contribs plus the ability to NOT have to write an HTML page for every product.

 

Anyways- this is a great shopping cart system (and much more) and I thank you for your replies.

 

Steve