Creating NEW Description Box

[clampdown]

Hello,

I'm looking at creating a new description box in the manufacturer page below the products.... please see attached image.


I know I will have to change the manufacturer.tpl theme page and add the following

div class="description_box clearfix rte">
					{$manufacturer->description-new}
				</div>

I would also have to change the AdminManufacturerController.php in controllers/admin/ and add the following

array(
					'type' => 'textarea',
					'label' => $this->l('description-new'),
					'name' => 'description-new',
					'lang' => true,
					'cols' => 60,
					'rows' => 10,
					'col' => 6,
					'autoload_rte' => 'rte', //Enable TinyMCE editor for description
					'hint' => $this->l('Invalid characters:').' <>;=#{}'

$this->fields_value['description_'.$language['id_lang']] = htmlentities(stripslashes($this->getFieldValue(
				$manufacturer,
				'description-new',
				$language['id_lang']
			)), ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8');
		}

and add a new row called "description-new" in the ps_manufacturer_lang database table.

 

 

Is their anything else I would need to change to make this work?

Thank you

Edited April 26, 2016 by clampdown (see edit history)

[vekia]

what kind of issue you've got?

you can't save it on manufacturer edit page? or you cant display it on front office

or maybe both? :-)

[clampdown]

I can save short description and long description

 

but I want to add a new description box - so I have 3 in total

[vekia]

have you added new "field" to manufacturer class?

there is a static variable $definition

    public static $definition = array(
        'table' => 'manufacturer',
        'primary' => 'id_manufacturer',
        'multilang' => true,
        'fields' => array(
            'name' =>                array('type' => self::TYPE_STRING, 'validate' => 'isCatalogName', 'required' => true, 'size' => 64),
            'active' =>            array('type' => self::TYPE_BOOL),
            'date_add' =>            array('type' => self::TYPE_DATE),
            'date_upd' =>            array('type' => self::TYPE_DATE),

            /* Lang fields */
            'description' =>        array('type' => self::TYPE_HTML, 'lang' => true, 'validate' => 'isCleanHtml'),
            'short_description' =>    array('type' => self::TYPE_HTML, 'lang' => true, 'validate' => 'isCleanHtml'),
            'meta_title' =>        array('type' => self::TYPE_STRING, 'lang' => true, 'validate' => 'isGenericName', 'size' => 128),
            'meta_description' =>    array('type' => self::TYPE_STRING, 'lang' => true, 'validate' => 'isGenericName', 'size' => 255),
            'meta_keywords' =>        array('type' => self::TYPE_STRING, 'lang' => true, 'validate' => 'isGenericName'),
        ),
    );

it is necessary to add there field that will store your new description

 

 

 

attention!

instead "-" in the name of field use "_"

 

description-new bad

description_new good

[clampdown]

OK thank you I will have a go and see how I get on.

I will also change description-new to description_new - thanks

[clampdown]

OK.... I've got the text box appearing on the front end - however the text box is not appearing in the back office > manufacturer

At the moment to make the text appear.... i'm having to edit the field in MySql

[clampdown]

Still can't get the text box to appear in the BO - any ideas from anybody ? 

[vekia]

 

 

however the text box is not appearing in the back office > manufacturer   At the moment to make the text appear.... i'm having to edit the field in MySql

let's clarify

this means that you cant save it from edit page? instead of this, you have to edit in directly in db ?

[clampdown]

let's clarify

this means that you cant save it from edit page? instead of this, you have to edit in directly in db ?

 

Yes - there is no new text box in the edit page

[vekia]

you added also public $description_new at the top of the manufacturer object definition ? (classes/manufacturer.php)

[clampdown]

Yes
 

/** @var string A extra description */
	public $description_new; 

and in the LANG Fields as well...

public static $definition = array(
		'table' => 'manufacturer',
		'primary' => 'id_manufacturer',
		'multilang' => true,
		'fields' => array(
			'name' => 				array('type' => self::TYPE_STRING, 'validate' => 'isCatalogName', 'required' => true, 'size' => 64),
			'active' => 			array('type' => self::TYPE_BOOL),
			'date_add' => 			array('type' => self::TYPE_DATE),
			'date_upd' => 			array('type' => self::TYPE_DATE),

			// Lang fields
			'description' => 		array('type' => self::TYPE_HTML, 'lang' => true, 'validate' => 'isCleanHtml'),
			'short_description' => 	array('type' => self::TYPE_HTML, 'lang' => true, 'validate' => 'isCleanHtml'),
			'description_new' => 	array('type' => self::TYPE_HTML, 'lang' => true, 'validate' => 'isCleanHtml'),
			'meta_title' => 		array('type' => self::TYPE_STRING, 'lang' => true, 'validate' => 'isGenericName', 'size' => 128),
			'meta_description' => 	array('type' => self::TYPE_STRING, 'lang' => true, 'validate' => 'isGenericName', 'size' => 255),
			'meta_keywords' => 		array('type' => self::TYPE_STRING, 'lang' => true, 'validate' => 'isGenericName'),
		),
	);