Additional Customers Fields

Text boxes and TextArea boxes gathers all data from the database. Pull down menus and radio buttons still gathers the data from the database by masking the original values with your questions used with _content['your_field'] at the end related with the _title['your_field'] by using the arrays.

TheOracle:

Text boxes and TextArea boxes gathers all data from the database. Pull down menus and radio buttons still gathers the data from the database by masking the original values with your questions used with _content['your_field'] at the end related with the _title['your_field'] by using the arrays.

I've decided to give up trying to install this mod. A shame because I can see the value in it, but after 5 days I'm admitting defeat.

Well, if you ever decide to keep it, you can always send me an installation note by email (see the installation text file) so that I could implement the first field for you for a small fee.

Hi Oracle,

Fantastic Mod. I'm having issues with pull down Menu's. The age sample is not working correctly, it displays an empty textbox instead of a pulldown with the age list.

Could you verify the php command in includes/templates/my_template/templates/tpl_account_edit_default.php to be

<?php echo zen_draw_input_field('customers_age', $account->fields['customers_age'], 'id="customers_age"'); ?>

For drop down menu's, I am not a PHP programmer but I have a hunch that the command is not correct. Should we be using zen_draw_pull_down instead?

Bjorn

It wasn't a coding error actually. My personal example was simply stated under input type for the customers age field. However, if you wish to reform that entry into a dropdown selection form, you can use the built-in function from the DEV team called: zen_draw_pull_down_menu function. There's a good example you can use from your overrided tpl_modules_create_account.php file you can use. :wink2:

Thanks Oracle. Perhaps you could help me with the pull down function?

Sample provided;

zen_draw_pull_down_menu('zone_id', zen_prepare_country_zones_pull_down($selected_country), $zone_id, 'id="stateZone"');

Altered;

zen_draw_pull_down_menu('customers_age', $account->array['customers_age'], 'id="customers_age"');

Dropdown shows XX, I know the altered drop down is incorrect. Any ideas?

Bjorn

$account->array['customers_age']

Array ? :mellow:

As stated from my template example, both shows as:

$account->fields['customers_age']

Not sure what you mean. Template example is as follows;

<?php echo zen_draw_input_field('customers_age', '', zen_set_field_length(TABLE_CUSTOMERS, 'entry_customers_age', '40') . ' id="customers_age"'); ?>

I'm obviously not understanding something here?

Why would the customers_age example be a textfield if we're using a dropdown function in the admin? This is just confusing? Was the age sample not meant to be a dropdown but rather a textfield?

Sorry. I do not give support for template customization. This problem is not related to the MOD specifically. You're simply trying to switch from an input type into a SELECT list. Please see the wiki documentation, FAQs, PDF Documentation for more info on how to customize these forms within your template files.

Was the age sample not meant to be a dropdown but rather a textfield?

Incorrect. They were meant to be one of them (your choice between those two - which is why arrays were built in the first place).

Thanks.

Odd. I'm not looking for custom template support but rather how to get the drop down working for the sample. The customer_age sample on my create account screen does not show a drop down but a textfield for input.

Everything else works except the dropdown.

Bjorn

Everything else works except the dropdown.

If it involves the SELECT list form, then like I said before, you must use the function: zen_draw_pull_down_menu. There's an example from tpl_modules_create_account.php file you can use. If you do encounter anything odd like a field that doesn't load correctly (either from the admin equally as the store-front and physically), then I would wonder but since it is just a presentation issue and that you do see the field, this is not a problem from my MOD.

Orders Order ID: Status: All OrdersPending [1]Processing [2]Delivered [3]Update [4] LEGEND: TEXT_BILLING_SHIPPING_MISMATCH TABLE_HEADING_ORDERS_IDTABLE_HEADING_PAYMENT_METHODCustomersOrder TotalDate PurchasedStatusAction 117GV/DC
free[IMG]http://cristaltech.co.za/mall/admin/images/icons/preview.gif[/IMG] R0.0006/06/2007 17:10:27Processing[IMG]http://cristaltech.co.za/mall/admin/images/icon_info.gif[/IMG] Orders Order ID: Status: All OrdersPending [1]Processing [2]Delivered [3]Update [4]
I have installed this module and now I have the above problem in my admin panel. The description of the orders is gone and also in the description of the tables have an error.

Can you assist me with that ??

Can you assist me with that ??

There is no way to assist for this if no specifications are being mentioned. Exacly 'where' does this problem occurs in the admin ? For now, this problem seem to come from bad incorporation in admin/customers.php file. Althought, this MOD should not affect orders in any ways since it is not related . . .

If you're not sure, then please post a screenshot.

Update:

Very important fixes were applied today. You may download the package from my site. For those who upgrades, please read the upgrade and changelog text documentation.

There were encountered problems (also reported) regarding the pull-down menus under the admin's customers core page. Even I couldn't find the source of the problem instantly. These issues has been fixed under this release.

Additional note: To those who wonders if it will alter any in the database, fortunitely - it won't. Althought, the bad news, for the first times (until you make the corrections for each of these users from the admin's customers core page), the content might show different results comparing to phpmyadmin from your TABLE_CUSTOMERS table.

My sincere apologize for these errors and hope that you like this MOD.

Update:

In order to avoid future confrontation with this MOD in the future, I have now updated the admin/includes/languages/<your_language>/extra_definitions/additional_customers_fields.php file's documentation (with the word: update in the guideline) so that everyone won't fall into the same issues again. :wink2:

admin, customers, orders

Sorry. This MOD is not related to that page on anywhere. I can only suspect this is an incorporation error somewhere.

Hello All,
I have completely installed the additional_customer_fields MOD, I've gone in Admin>Customers>Add Customer Fields and created a new customer field and enabled it. Now I just don't see the new field on the login/register page. I have just opened the ZEN CART account and everything is pretty much the default values (including template). Can anyone help me on getting this field to show up?

Secondly, once I get this field to show up I want to make it a drop down list with two option (Mel Kimmel and Boyd Thomas). Can anyone help me with this also.

Can anyone help me on getting this field to show up?

Once you added + activated the field from the admin section, you must manually code the design from your template overrides files by following the example from my package.