disable the product price

fireslug

Hi all,

I need some help to disable a mandatory price field, so that a user can enter a price and weight. eg. $3.50 per kg.

At the moment, a user can only enter a price without the dollar sign eg. 4.50. But most users will want to enter a price, and even a special offer.

Can anyone please give me an idea of what code i need to find in order to change it to allow other types of entries?

regards

ric

Ashley_Sheridan

What is the existing code you're using? Is it part of a CMS or a home-brew system? Without knowing that, it's impossible to give any specific help. It's a bit like asking how to use your car stereo, without mentioning what the car is and if it's had a new stereo system installed.

Aside from that, would it not be better to add a couple of extra fields in for things like discount, or price per unit (whether the unit is a whole unit or a weight, etc) It could be that if you're using an existing CMS system then the price could be used for calculations in other parts of the code, and it's highly likely it's stored in the DB as a numerical field, which wouldn't let you use strings in it anyway.

jorgepinho

Probably the field is being validated by javascript... you have to remove that...

And like Ashley said, you have to make sure that the DB table is ready to accept text value. And then... it wont allow calculations... so I think you need more thinking on this.

Ashley_Sheridan

Bear in mind that any decent CMS won't be relying on Javascript-only form validation (i.e. checking for mandatory fields) so there will most likely be a secondary level of validation being done in PHP as well too.

fireslug

I think I've found the file that allows for entries in the original, and special price fields, and the special offer.

Is this the right file? and the code that covers the subject?

			<div id="addProductAreaCategorySelect">
				<select id="categoryid" name="categoryid" class="addProductAreaInputSelect" >
					<option value="category">please select category</option>
					<?php if (( isset($param['categoryid']) || isset($formValue['categoryid']) ) && ( @$param['categoryid'] > 0 || @$formValue['categoryid'] > 0 ) ) : ?>
						<?php echo @$param['categoryid'] > 0 ? generateCategorySelectList(TRUE, @$param['categoryid']) : generateCategorySelectList(TRUE, $formValue['categoryid']); ?>
					<?php endif; ?>
				</select>
			</div>

			<?php if ($type == 'special') : ?>
			<label for="originalprice" class="addProductAreaInputLabel">
					Original price 
			<span class="addProductInLabelSpan">(only number, without dollor sign, eg. 113.5)</span></label>
			<input type="text" name="originalprice" value="<?php echo my_set_value('originalprice'); ?>" class="addProductAreaInputText" 
			onfocus="this.className='addProductAreaInputTextFocus'" onblur="this.className='addProductAreaInputText'" />
			<?php endif; ?>

			<label for="nowprice" class="addProductAreaInputLabel">
				<?php if ($type == 'special') : ?>
					Special price
				<?php else: ?>
					List price 
				<?php endif; ?>
			</label>
			<input type="text" name="nowprice" value="<?php echo my_set_value('nowprice'); ?>" class="addProductAreaInputText" 
			onfocus="this.className='addProductAreaInputTextFocus'" onblur="this.className='addProductAreaInputText'" />

			<?php if ($type == 'special') : ?>
			<label for="specialoffer" class="addProductAreaInputLabel">Special offer <span class="addProductInLabelSpan">(eg. buy 2 get 1 free, get 25% off all items.)</span></label>
			<input type="text" name="specialoffer" value="<?php echo my_set_value('specialoffer'); ?>" class="addProductAreaInputText" 
			onfocus="this.className='addProductAreaInputTextFocus'" onblur="this.className='addProductAreaInputText'" />

			<label for="starttime" class="addProductAreaInputLabel">Start time</label>
			<input type="text" id="starttime" name="starttime" value="<?php echo date("Y-m-d", strtotime(my_set_value('starttime'))); ?>" class="addProductAreaInputText" 
			onfocus="this.className='addProductAreaInputTextFocus'" onblur="this.className='addProductAreaInputText'" />

			<label for="endtime" class="addProductAreaInputLabel">End time</label>
			<input type="text" id="endtime" name="endtime" value="<?php echo date("Y-m-d", strtotime(my_set_value('endtime'))); ?>" class="addProductAreaInputText" 
			onfocus="this.className='addProductAreaInputTextFocus'" onblur="this.className='addProductAreaInputText'" />
			<?php endif; ?>
			<!-- 
			<label class="addProductAreaInputLabel">Publish now <span class="addProductInLabelSpan">(If select no, this item will only dispaly in your "My <?php echo $type; ?>".)</span></label>
			<div id="publishradio">
				<label for="publish1" class="addProductAreaRadioLabel">Yes</label><input type="radio" id="publish1" name="publish" value="1" <?php echo my_set_radio('publish',1, TRUE); ?> />
				<label for="publish2" class="addProductAreaRadioLabel">No</label><input type="radio" id="publish2" name="publish" value="2" <?php echo my_set_radio('publish',2); ?> />
			</div>
			 -->
	</div>

	<div>
		<button id="updateProductSubmitButton" type="button">Save</button>
	</div>
</div>
<?php echo form_close(); ?>

</div>
<?php
$this->load->view('common/userpanel_right_normal_end');

$this->load->view('common/content_normal_end');
$this->load->view('common/footer_normal');

Ashley_Sheridan

That looks like a view file from some sort of MVC framework (CodeIgniter?). Basically, thats just a chunk of the output for the form, not any of the code that actually uses it. There's no client-side Javascript code (at least shown there) that handles the form validation to enforce the type of input you use, so it would be all in the controller. If this is CodeIgniter, then the controller file will most likely be named the same as the first 'directory' in the URL path, and will be in the /application/controllers directory.

Now, as for changing it to allow for anything you want to be put in it, are you still really sure you want to do that? If there are any calculations which use that value, they will all break. If the database that stores these prices is storing them as a number, then inserting anything else will break. I'm assuming that this is the case because of the way there's a note on the form instructing people not to use the dollar sign in the input.

Are you just wanting to change the look of the price field in the products listing/page?

fireslug

Thanks again Ashley.

I will try and find the controller in question and post the section that contains the code.

I am very grateful for your taking the time to comment.

ric

fireslug

You're right Ashely, it's codeigniter.

Problem is I have looked in the controller folder, but cant find it. i guess i need to look at bit harder.

fireslug

COuld this be the code that needs to be changed?

				'field' => 'originalprice', 'label' => 'Original price',
				'rules' => 'trim|numeric'
				),
			array(
				'field' => 'nowprice', 'label' => 'Special price',
				'rules' => 'trim|numeric'
				),