Longer Product Name

How do I increase the length of the product name field?

The product name field can be lengthened by running these two commands in the Tools > Install SQL Patches page:

ALTER TABLE products_description MODIFY COLUMN products_name varchar(191) NOT NULL default '';
ALTER TABLE orders_products MODIFY COLUMN products_name varchar(191) NOT NULL default '';

Note that the product name data is stored in two tables. The same is true of other fields in Zen Cart; when you expand a field, be sure to do all locations. Other similar examples:

  • Company name is in the address book table and the orders table (and is stored three times in the orders table, since customer, shipping and billing can all be different).
  • Products Model is in the products and orders_products tables.


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Last modified September 28, 2022 by Scott C Wilson (94e6826c).