Increase amount of text shown in product description
Submitted by paddyman on Sat, 2007-02-10 18:20.Price Tapestry
Would like to increase amount of text shown in the product description. Currently showing 255 characters. Have changed code in html\product.php to
<?php
print substr($mainProduct["description"],0,800);
?>
See in the feeds table in my database that field_description is varchar(255). The products table has description field set as text.
Wondering if I change field_description field to text attribute and reregister, would this increase the amount of text I have, or is there another way?
Cheers
Paddyman
Hi Paddyman,
The description should be unlimited so i'm not sure why you are seeing it being cropped to 255 characters. The description is only stored in the products table, in a text field that is in theory unlimited. The field_description only holds the name of the description field (which you select during registration), so there is no need for this to be text - varchar(255) is fine.
Is it possible that the feed has descriptions that have been limited to 255 characters by the merchant?
Cheers,
David.