How do I turn off the "Pros" and "Cons" fields?

[bob weaver]

I want all review comments to be typed into one text field, rather than split up into several fields such as "Postitive aspect..." "Negative aspect..." and the review field itself. Is there an easy way to turn these off, so that when a user adds a review, the "Positive..." and "Negative..." fields are not on the form, and they don't appear in posted reviews?
Thank you

[Chuck S]

Not without you removing those fields from the reviews template in admin edit templates

[bob weaver]

Thank you for your reply. I did that, and that eliminated them from the review form. However, the pros/cons box still shows up in reviews that are displayed for a product, even if the pros/cons box is empty. What do I edit to eliminate showing pros/cons box? Would I edit the showproduct.php file, or a template?
Thank you

[Chuck S]

You would do the same pretty much in the showproduct template

[bob weaver]

Thank you, that worked. This is a related question. I am using one extra field in the product description called "Video link." It works correctly for the product description. If nothing is typed into that field when a new product is uploaded, the field does not appear when the product is shown.

I am also using one extra field in the reviews, also called "Video link." It is not required, and if the user does not type anything into it, I want it to not display at all when showing that user's review. As it is right now, a table does show in the review even if they typed nothing into that field. Here is a page that shows what I am talking about:

http://fireworksland.com/ultimate/sh...hp?product=100

The user did not type anything into the "Video link" field when they entered their review, yet there is still a table in their review that says, "Video link". Ideally, I would like for that table to not show up at all in their review, if they did not type anything into that field. Is this possible, and if so what would I need to do?

Thank you.

[Chuck S]

The extra additional fields always show up that I see as its the way they are coded as arrays

[bob weaver]

Thank you - is it possible to surround that part of the code with an "If" statement?

This code in showproduct.tmpl:

<br />&nbsp;
<table width="100%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1" align="left" class="{$Style['tableborders']}">
{$reviewextras[$x]}
</table>


If that code was inside an "If" then it would only appear if that condition was met... what would the "If" say?
Thanks

[Chuck S]

Well the question is if what? The way things are stored it is impossible to surpress things other than the way we do it I would think here but you can look at showproduct.php and see if you can experiment with somethings where the html for that variable is defined. We do not show anything if the title is empty pretty much the same way we do the descriptions additional extras as well

There is a big difference on the way extra fields and additional extra fields are stored and done.

[bob weaver]

Thanks. When a user adds a review, I have an extra field on the reviews input page called "Video link." The user can either type something in there or skip that and just give a rating and review. I assumed that the database would have a record of whether they typed in something to that field, or just left it blank. The "If" would be to check if that field was empty, for that product and that user.

It seems like that information is stored somewhere, because if they did type something into "Video link" then that text would have to be retrieved to display in that table in their review. So, it seems like if there is a way to retrieve the text they typed in that field, use the same way to merely check the text to see if the text exists and is not just null, or else check the length of it to see if it is longer than 0 characters, and if it is null or 0 characters, to just skip the table for it.

Maybe I'm not understanding how it stores what the user types in for a review. I assumed that everything the user types in for a review will go into the database somehwere, each field in one column or something.

[Chuck S]

Bob your free to try and modify the code to suit your needs but the way the additional extras are stored as arrays that is the way they display

[bob weaver]

ok thanks

[Chuck S]

Not a problem have a good weekend.