Dynamic Drop Downs for SBA

**laurenjj** · 22 May 2009, 08:11 AM

There isn't an official thread for this mod...so in desperation to find help....here it is. Currently there is no way to use this mod if any one of your products is a radio, checkbox, text box..... It's really frustrating because this mod would be great for 99 products in my store, but I have ONE that involves an 'engraving' option so I need to have the TEXT box work there. The mod in question is: http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?ma...roducts_id=953

**laurenjj** · 22 May 2009, 11:24 PM

I mean I'm even willing to perhaps just make the actual engraving text box part of an independent pop-up or something.... it would just need to pass back to the customers order.... I don't think it would be ideal (if they wanted to make changes or something) but??? Does no one use these dynamic dropdowns with anything else? Not giftwrapping options etc???? I'm willing to pay someone...

**laurenjj** · 23 May 2009, 10:19 AM

OK....I have an idea but I'm not sure what to do as far as coding the javascript goes..... I need to take this line:

Code:

 function _draw_nonstocked_attributes() {
      $out='';
      $nonstocked_attributes = $this->_build_attributes_array(false, true);
      foreach($nonstocked_attributes as $nonstocked)
      {
        $out.='<tr><td align="right" class=main><b><em>'.$nonstocked['oname'].":</b></td><td class=main>".zen_draw_pull_down_menu('id['.$nonstocked['oid'].']',$nonstocked['ovals'],$nonstocked['default'])."</td></tr>\n";
      }
      return $out;
    }

and more specifically...this bit of that code:

Code:

<td class=main>".zen_draw_pull_down_menu('id['.$nonstocked['oid'].']',$nonstocked['ovals'],$nonstocked['default'])."</td>

and make that a text input field instead of a pull down....???

**laurenjj** · 23 May 2009, 10:42 PM

OK...not that anyone here is actually reading this....but just incase. I came up with a sort of solution....I changed the:
.zen_draw_pull_down_menu
TO
.zen_draw_textarea_field

for those nonstocked items and then went into the database manually and changed the "1" in the 'products_options_track_stock' column that was created in the 'product options' table.

Now the problem seems to be that it's treating one of the other dropdowns that's totally independent. For example:

product: picture frame

size: (2 options) 1-5x7, 2-4x6
color: (2 options) 1-black, 2-white
and an engrave option.

Now the problem is that when you go to the product page, it's treating the dropdown option directly above the 'text' option (the color in this case) as if it's being ignored...but if I add another option for testing sake (let's say I add an 'icon' choice with 2 choices of either heart or flower) then the size and color are fine but the 'icon' option is ignored.

Any ideas?