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Title: Cut category description after x words
Post by: TerraZone on October 02, 2009, 02:25:18 PM

Hey there,

is it possible to "cut" the category-description in the category overview, after a few words?
I have some really long descriptions that won't fit into my list. 
So it would be great if just the beginning is shown and the rest be replaced by ". . . " or something like that.

Any idea of how to do this?

Title: Re: Cut category description after x words
Post by: impss on October 02, 2009, 04:09:32 PM

Give this a try, it is untested

In /includes/functions.php  

Find:

Code: [Select]

"cat_description" => format_text($cat_cache[$category_id]['cat_description'], 1),
After add:

Code: [Select]

"cat_description_short" => (strlen($cat_cache[$category_id]['cat_description']) > 20) ? Cut_String($cat_cache[$category_id]['cat_description'], 20)."..." : $cat_cache[$category_id]['cat_description'],
***In the above code the 20 represents the max length of description in characters, you can change this (twice)  to fit your need ***

Above:

Code: [Select]

?>
Add:

Code: [Select]

function Cut_String($string, $max_length){  
    if (strlen($string) > $max_length){  
        $string = substr($string, 0, $max_length);  
        $pos = strrpos($string, " ");  
        if($pos === false) {  
                return substr($string, 0, $max_length)."...";  
        }  
            return substr($string, 0, $pos)."...";  
    }else{  
        return $string;  
    }  
}
In your category_bit.html

Find:

Code: [Select]

{cat_description}
Replace with:

Code: [Select]

{cat_description_short}

Title: Re: Cut category description after x words
Post by: TerraZone on October 06, 2009, 04:13:20 PM

thanks for your help, but there seem to be a bug in your code.  after changing everything, the description for the first category ist displayed for EVERY category.  But it IS cut ;)

Title: Re: Cut category description after x words
Post by: V@no on October 06, 2009, 04:23:45 PM

Code: [Select]

"cat_description_short" => Cut_String($cat_cache[$category_id]['cat_description'], 20),should do it.

Title: Re: Cut category description after x words
Post by: impss on October 06, 2009, 05:38:40 PM

Sorry about that, forgot to change that.

My post above is updated

Title: Re: Cut category description after x words
Post by: V@no on October 07, 2009, 02:36:20 AM

@impss:

Code: [Select]

(strlen($cat_cache[$category_id]['cat_description']) > 20) is not needed, as it's already implemented into the new function ;)

Title: Re: Cut category description after x words
Post by: AKIN on October 15, 2009, 03:10:41 PM

hi
how do {image_name_short} ?
which change code?

Title: Re: Cut category description after x words
Post by: V@no on October 15, 2009, 03:16:07 PM

category_bit.html

Title: Re: Cut category description after x words
Post by: AKIN on October 15, 2009, 03:17:05 PM

image name:  this picture in istanbul
image_name_shor:      this picture

how do :)

Title: Re: Cut category description after x words
Post by: V@no on October 15, 2009, 03:38:08 PM

Oh, completely misunderstood your question. Sorry.

Same deal, in includes/functions.php find:
    "image_name" => format_text($image_row['image_name'], 2),


insert below:
    "image_name_short" => Cut_string(format_text($image_row['image_name'], 2), 20),


[EDIT]

Just found a nice code snippet that should only count and cut text, disregarding HTML tags, and supposedly should not break HTML in the text either:
http://www.gsdesign.ro/blog/cut-html-string-without-breaking-the-tags/

Title: Re: Cut category description after x words
Post by: AKIN on October 15, 2009, 03:57:44 PM

Warning: Missing argument 2 for Cut_String(), called in C:\wamp\www\includes\functions.php on line 454 and defined in C:\wamp\www\includes\functions.php on line 1811

Warning: Missing argument 2 for Cut_String(), called in C:\wamp\www\includes\functions.php on line 454 and defined in C:\wamp\www\includes\functions.php on line 1811

Warning: Missing argument 2 for Cut_String(), called in C:\wamp\www\includes\functions.php on line 454 and defined in C:\wamp\www\includes\functions.php on line 1811

Warning: Missing argument 2 for Cut_String(), called in C:\wamp\www\includes\functions.php on line 454 and defined in C:\wamp\www\includes\functions.php on line 1811



in 454 line:     "image_name_short" => Cut_string(format_text($image_row['image_name'], 2)),
in 1811 line:    function Cut_String($string, $max_length){       if (strlen($string) > $max_length){   
        $string = substr($string, 0, $max_length);   
        $pos = strrpos($string, " ");   
        if($pos === false) {   
                return substr($string, 0, $max_length)."...";   
        }   
            return substr($string, 0, $pos)."...";   
    }else{   
        return $string;   
    }   
}

Title: Re: Cut category description after x words
Post by: V@no on October 15, 2009, 04:02:02 PM

too early for me  :oops:...code fixed.

Title: Re: Cut category description after x words
Post by: CodeMan on April 20, 2013, 01:58:53 AM

V@no,

Can this also be done for image description?

Thanks!