Hi all, I would like to limit the length of product list descriptions so that my pages become more consistent in length. An older post (2009) describes how to do acheive this (http://www.pricetapestry.com/node/3156), but the PT code has changed somewhat since then. What would be up-to-date code to limit descriptions to a given amount of characters? (and also give clean breaks after the last word).
Thanks!
Hi,
You can now use the tapestry_substr() function which will break the description on the next space following the length specified, so if you edit html/product.php and look for the following code at line 44:
<p><?php print $product_main["description"]; ?></p>...and REPLACE with:
<p><?php print tapestry_substr($product_main["description"],200,"..."); ?></p>(the third parameter is an optional postfix string that the function will add if the string is truncated)
Hope this helps!
Cheers,
David.
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