My first ZenCart tip

Finito!

And you’re done. Go to any product in your cart, and you will see a secondary products description field. Of course, *both* fields have the same title: “Product Description”. You can change that easily, but it’s not a big deal. For those of you that it *will* irritate to have both fields named the same thing, simple open up the “collect_info.php” file, and in that BIG section I had you copy (the one with the table cells), find this:

<td class="main" valign="top"><?php if ($i == 0) echo TEXT_PRODUCTS_DESCRIPTION; ?></td>

and change it to this:

<td class="main" valign="top"><?php if ($i == 0) echo TEXT_PRODUCTS_DESCRIPTION2; ?></td>

..and save the file. Then open up zencart/admin/includes/languages/english/product.php and do a search for “TEXT_PRODUCTS_DESCRIPTION”. When you find it, copy the line and paste a second one below it, and edit. So that this:

define('TEXT_PRODUCTS_DESCRIPTION', 'Products Description:');

Becomes this:

define('TEXT_PRODUCTS_DESCRIPTION', 'Products Description:');
// YOUR NAME HERE
define('TEXT_PRODUCTS_DESCRIPTION2', 'Secondary Products Description:');

Once you use this tip to add your second field, you’re preview is going to look a bit funky (meaning, the two descriptions will run into each other on the preview screen) - but it’s not a big deal because people aren’t going to see your preview screen. My preview screen never looks like what it’s going to on the site, anyway. But the information is there, and that’s what matters (if the secondary description doesn’t show up, then you’ve missed something.)

You may then style and code as needed.

A little disclaimer here - this method worked for me. I will stress the need to back up your files and your database, and never do experiments like this on a working store. Test it out first. This post is here for informational purposes only - you don’t have to do it. But doing it is your choice, and I can’t be held responsible if things get royally screwed!

So keep a backup. At least that way it’s fixable.

Now…I just need to edit the Easy Populate contribution so I can do the double descriptions through that route, rather than one-by-one in the admin panel. Than I’m golden!

Enjoy!

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Posted by admin
April 25th, 2007