Telephone field type wont appear ?

[Niall Boylan]

When adding a listing field for Telephone number. I select field type as telephone number and use 3, 7 as the field. When i go back to the listing fields. The field type is gone and is just blank. On the site it asks for the telephone number with no box for you to add the number. Any ideas ?

In the picture telephone is named "Mobile"

Mobile blank .jpg

[Viktor]

Hello Niall,

Yes this problem exist, You should go to mysql through phpMyAdmin or through any other program working with mysql and find table: fl_listing_fields click on it then click Structure, find field Type and click edit:

you should add new value in this field: 'phone' and save. Please see my screenshot.

Then you may add new phone field and check again,

[Alejandro andres Donato]

Hello to all, do you anyone know how to add more lenght to telephone? I don't know how yo do it and in my country there is more numbers like in flynax form allow to field.
I think the change must be in SQL but how?
Thank you.

[Viktor]

Hello Alejandro,

But you can change phone through admin panel >> Listing fields >> edit phone field and set as big as you want phone format:
Code - 3 digit
Area length - max 9 digit
Number length - max 9 digit

Do you want more?

[Alejandro andres Donato]

Hi Victor, I need more lenght because In my country ( Argentina ) the telephone number are more larges por example:
Cell phone: 011(province code)-154-123-4567890

can you please tell me steps to put more?
thank you.

[Viktor]

Hello Alejandro,

You can try to change 1 line in ftp yourself. Go to ftp://admin>>tpl>>blocks>>fields>>add_edit_form.tpl

find line:

Only registered members can view the code.

and change to:

Only registered members can view the code.

save and check again.

[Alejandro andres Donato]

Great victor however, see the atach, I need the last field with 3 more numbers, how can I do it?

[Viktor]

Hello Alejandro andres Donato,

If you implement my changes then you should go to Admin Panel >> Listing Fields find your phone field click edit icon and change length for phone number.

[Alejandro andres Donato]

Ahhhh yessss I seee!!!!, yes very great.! thank you very much!!!!.