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Trying to add a Category Description Field to products_results page

Thread began 11/25/2015 9:47 am by Charles | Last modified 12/07/2015 2:50 pm by Ray Borduin | 3241 views | 12 replies |

Charles

Trying to add a Category Description Field to products_results page

My company wants to add a field to the products_results page(attached) that shows a Category Description above the listed products results. So I added a Category_Description field to the 'category' table in the DB, entered some text in that field, and added that field to the SQL Select statement on the products_results page line 98 and then mimicked the code that properly renders the Category Name at the top of the products_results page line 336 but with it calling the Category_Description field - line 341. You can see the result at the test page
http://outofchaos.net/gsc/www/products_results11-24.php?Category_ID=6&Search=1
They want the Category_Description where you see 'Description goes here' on the test page above but it's not pulling the Category_Description field data. What would you suggest? Thank you.

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products_results11-24.php
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Ray BorduinWebAssist

You are using this when displaying your category description:

<?php echo((strpos($WADbSearch1->whereClause,"Category_Description"))?$row_WADAproducts['Category_Description']:"Descrption goes here"); ?>

I think you want:
<?php echo((strpos($WADbSearch1->whereClause,"Category"))?$row_WADAproducts['Category_Description']:"Descrption goes here"); ?>

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Charles

That worked to display the Category_Description text. Lesson for me in avoiding ambiguous table v field names. The only tweak left is that the text pushed out the Container way off to the right - see link below. Can you suggest where in the /style css on the page that we can contain the width, wrapping the text, to align with the right edge of the nav bars like the 2nd link below. Updated product_results.php attached. Thank you.

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mrsam5266

http://outofchaos.net/gsc/www/webassist/forms/fd_compact_default.css line 322 you have:

white-space: nowrap;

You probably want:
white-space: normal;

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Charles

That did it! Thanks for the assist. Have a great holiday.

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Charles

With your help, I successfully added the Category_Description field which you can see displayed at the link below. Now I am trying to to change the category_update.php in the Admin so the company can manage/add/edit the Category_Desreption. Attached is a copy of category_update.php for which I have 2 issues I hope you can help me with:
1> I added code to the Select statement and other places on the page for category_update and the screen displayed(attached) looks right except I need to make the Form Box that displays the text larger => 1024 characters so the Admin can really see it or most of it.
2> When I make an edit and click the Update button, I get the following error: "You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MariaDB server version for the right syntax to use near 'WHERE `Category_ID`='6'' at line 1" - I'm having trouble seeing the problem.
Your help would be much appreciated.

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Ray BorduinWebAssist

1) use a <textarea> instead of an <input type="text"> field and you can make it much larger and allow scrolling.
2) Try updating lines 85 and 86 to:

$WA_columnTypesStr = "',none,''|',none,''|',none,''|',none,''|',none,''|',none,''";
$WA_comparisonStr = " LIKE | LIKE | LIKE | LIKE | LIKE | LIKE ";
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Charles

OK - so for
1> On, Category_update2.php, I changed line 208's 'input' from 'type="text" to "textarea' but I'm not sure this is the right place for that change as it did not enlarge the small Category_Description text box displayed
<input id="Category_Description" name="Category_Description" type="textarea" value="<?php echo((isset($_GET["invalid"])?ValidatedField("categoryupdate","Category_Description"):"".$row_WADAcategory["Category_Description"]."")); ?>" class="formTextfield_Medium" tabindex="5" title="Please enter a value.">

2> On, Category_update2.php(updated file attached), I changed 85 and 86 as you suggested adding a missing '|' on 85, When you click 'Update' now, it completes the operation but just removes or blanks out the text that you entered in the Category_Description field from the DB so that a blank now appears in that field in the DB and products_results page.
What would you suggest? Thank you

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Ray BorduinWebAssist

1) You should have updated the field to:

<textarea id="Category_Description" name="Category_Description" tabindex="5" title="Please enter a value." ><?php echo((isset($_GET["invalid"])?ValidatedField("categoryupdate","Category_Description"):"".$row_WADAcategory["Category_Description"]."")); ?></textarea >



2) Line 84 also has an issue... it should be:

$WA_fieldValuesStr = "".((isset($_POST["Category"]))?$_POST["Category"]:"")  ."" . $WA_AB_Split . "".((isset($_POST["Category_Code"]))?$_POST["Category_Code"]:"")  ."" . $WA_AB_Split . "".((isset($_POST["Schofield_Stone"]))?$_POST["Schofield_Stone"]:"")  ."" . $WA_AB_Split . "".((isset($_POST["Stone_Center"]))?$_POST["Stone_Center"]:"")  ."" . $WA_AB_Split . "".((isset($_POST["3North"]))?$_POST["3North"]:"")  ."" . $WA_AB_Split . "".((isset($_POST["Category_Description"]))?$_POST["Category_Description"]:"")  ."";
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Charles

Thanks for your patience. That worked. I was able to successfully modify the category_insert page as well with the code you suggested. Thank you!

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