Links not working in product description

[Guest grafixster]

I'm still not able to get the links to work in product description. Here is the lates thing I've tried.

<td>	

{TXT_DESC}

<div class="txtOutOfStock">{TXT_OUTOFSTOCK}</div>

</td>

I've modified it to be;

<td>	

<a href="{TXT_DESC}">Play</a>

<div class="txtOutOfStock">{TXT_OUTOFSTOCK}</div>

</td>

When I add a product, I put the path to the "public" folder like /demos/genre/sound.mp3 in the description field.  This works fine and the link becomes availaible in the product listings as well as the product detailed info (if you click on more).



If I view HTML source of the shopping cart I see this

<td>	

<a href="/demos/beats/rap/1.mp3&hellip;">Play</a>

<div class="txtOutOfStock"></div>

</td>

The … makes the link come;

/demos/beats/rap/1.mp3%E2%80%A6

I hope that sheds some light on the prob.

Thanks!

[Guest estelle]

Hi there,

So you want to modify the category view to have the product descriptions as a link?

Firstly, the reason why it is displayed as a link when you view the full product info, but not in the category view, is because in the category view all the HTML tags such as <a href...> are being stripped. Also, as you noticed, &hellip; is being added to the end.

Here is the code that does this. Its in includes/content/viewCat.inc.php

$view_cat->assign("TXT_DESC",substr(strip_tags($productResults[$i]['description']),0,$config['productPrecis'])."&hellip;");

So you could either keep the current solution that you are working on, and just get rid of the &hellip; that is getting added to the end (and also the possible chopping of the end of the text):

$view_cat->assign("TXT_DESC",strip_tags($productResults[$i]['description']));

Or you could also get rid of the strip_tags(), so that any HTML tags will also used to markup the text in the category listing, and then you could undo your other change in viewCat.tpl.

$view_cat->assign("TXT_DESC",$productResults[$i]['description']);

Hope this helps!

Estelle.