Virtuemart flypage: textarea instead of input

We'ld like to sell wedding cards in our Virtuemart shop using the furniture-store template.

The customer should be able to add the individual text to be printed on the card. For this purpose we add an individual attribute "Your text:" on the product status page. Unfortunatly the attribute is presented to the customer as input field on the flypage with only single line to enter.

My question: Is there a solution to change the single-line inputfield into a textarea, so the customer has enough space to edit his desired text?

You can try this:

Open

components\com_virtuemart\themes\hot_furniture\templates\product_details\includes\addtocart_custom_attribute.tpl.php

change:
<input type="text" class="inputboxattrib" id="<?php echo $attribute ?>_field" size="30" name="<?php echo $attribute.$attribute ?>" />


to

<textarea type="text" class="inputboxattrib" id="<?php echo $attribute ?>_field" size="30" name="<?php echo $attribute.$attribute ?>" />

Note that this will change all of your displayed custom attributes output element from input to textarea so if you need to control tahat you will have to add some if - then -else logic to this.
Also you mat need to chage:

components\com_virtuemart\themes\default\templates\product_details\includes\addtocart_custom_attribute.tpl.ph

This works fine. However, when I look at the shopping cart all the text entered in the text area is on one line.

Normally in PHP you would add nl2br(), I suppose, but where do I enter this? Or, is there another way?

Not sure there is \n (newline) there at all, because that is made by virtue-mart developers. Anyway why not try:

..<?php echo nl2br($attribute.$attribute); ?>..

Unfortunately that doesn't help. I’ll try to explain what happens:

If I enter the following text (each number on a new row):

1
2
3

It will show as follows on the shopping cart page (where I can see all my items in the basket):

1n2n3

All text on one line and with an ‘n’ after each ‘Enter’.

Any ideas?

try str_replace instead of nl2br():


..<?php echo str_replace('\n','<br/>',$attribute.$attribute); ?>..