Limiting number of char in ProductDescription field

[royhink]

Thought I saw a way somewhere to limit the number of characters displayed when placing a PRODUCT.ProductDescription field?

I want to display just the first 25 characters of the field, then put a "...More Info" link.

Can this be done?

Thanks,

Roy

[Jim]

It can for search results pages but not for regular pages.

Preferences > Search settings > Search Layout > Maximum number of characters displayed for the product description: Default value is 85.

[JeremeD]

If you have PHP support, you can use this:

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<?PHP

$productDescription = <<<PRODUCTDESCRIPTION

[-- Product.ProductDescription --]

PRODUCTDESCRIPTION;

echo substr_replace($productDescription, "... <a href=\"[-- Product.MoreInfoURL --]\">More Info</a>", 25);

?>


[royhink]

I'm back trying to solve this problem after putting it on the back-burner.

We've got php, but I don't know anything about it.

So, I'm wanting to limit ProductDescription to 25 char. Would the code look like:

<?PHP
$productDescription = <PRODUCTDESCRIPTION>
[-- Product.ProductDescription --]
PRODUCTDESCRIPTION;
echo substr_replace($productDescription, 25);
?>

And would the page need to be renamed .php for the script to work?

Any help wildly appreciated.

Roy

[JeremeD]

Just paste the code I provided in my post above wherever you want the description to be.

And yes, would need to have a .php extension on the page.