Removing the ellipsis from a product's description

[Guest james_starkie]

But it's not quite that simple, I only want the ellipsis to be removed when the product description is blank.

So it looks like this:

It's a minor detail, but I've been asked by a client if it's possible to do. I imagine it is, using an if statement, but my php knowledge isn't up to that standard.

Any help is appreciated.

(using latest version of CC btw.)

[Guest]

Ok, this fix is off the top of my head and has not been tested, but it should work.

In /includes/content/viewCat.inc.php find this line:

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

Replace that line with these lines:

$tmpdesc = substr(strip_tags($productResults[$i]['description']),0,$config['productPrecis'])."…");

if($tmpdesc == "..." ) {

	$view_cat->assign("TXT_DESC","");

} else {

	$view_cat->assign("TXT_DESC",$tmpdesc);

}

:w00t:

[Guest xpc]

Ok, this fix is off the top of my head and has not been tested, but it should work.

In /includes/content/viewCat.inc.php find this line:

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

Replace that line with these lines:

$tmpdesc = substr(strip_tags($productResults[$i]['description']),0,$config['productPrecis'])."…");

if($tmpdesc == "..." ) {

	$view_cat->assign("TXT_DESC","");

} else {

	$view_cat->assign("TXT_DESC",$tmpdesc);

}

Nice Sir William, the "..." were buging me to. But there is an small error in this line:

$tmpdesc = substr(strip_tags($productResults[$i]['description']),0,$config['productPrecis'])."…");

the correct its this:

$tmpdesc = substr(strip_tags($productResults[$i]['description']),0,$config['productPrecis']."…");

[convict]

I think the correct is following:

$tmpdesc = substr(strip_tags($productResults[$i]['description']),0,$config['productPrecis'])."…";

OR just another condition

$tmpdesc = substr(strip_tags($productResults[$i]['description']),0,$config['productPrecis']);

if(empty($tmpdesc)) {

	$view_cat->assign("TXT_DESC","");

} else {

	$view_cat->assign("TXT_DESC",$tmpdesc."…");

}

SW made just programmer's typo, useless copied end parenthesis :w00t:

[Guest james_starkie]

Yep, that works convict.

Thanks for the help guys :D

[Guest meezyart]

you guys are really helpful. how about removing the ellipsis all together? Still keeping the description ofcourse.