How do you make the short description longer?

AB · #1 07-06-2006, 01:13 AM

Hi, does anyone know how you can make the short description text longer for products? I am running version 4.1.2 (lastet)

Thanks
AB

balinor · #2 07-06-2006, 02:39 AM

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AB · #3 07-06-2006, 02:26 PM

Hi Ryan,
Sorry about that, thanks. I have changed the details as you can see. Changing over to another system that I don't know is hard work and you just don't think of the small stuff

balinor · #4 07-06-2006, 03:09 PM

Thanks! So where would you like the short description to appear longer?

AB · #5 07-07-2006, 01:58 AM

Hi Ryan,

I would just like more text to show up where the short description appears, there must be a setting that I can adjust to show more charters?

balinor · #6 07-07-2006, 02:20 AM

Use phpMyAdmin to change the field type from VARCHAR(255) to just a TEXT field on the short description table.

AB · #7 07-07-2006, 01:34 PM

Hi Ryan,

Thanks, I was looking in the wrong place.

AB · #8 07-07-2006, 08:59 PM

Hi Ryan,

I have been to phpMyAdmin and I found the two tables descr and fulldescr however they are both set to text already, do you know if there is a setting in xcart?

vulcan-works · #9 07-08-2006, 07:10 PM

in skin1/customer/main/products.tpl

look for something like this :

Code:

{$products[product].descr|truncate:300:"...":true}

and change the # in there to something bigger(i changed mine to 300)

AB · #10 07-09-2006, 12:55 AM

Excellent, that works, I changed mine to 2000 and it makes the page layout better. Thanks.