Increasing amount of characters in desciption

[kiwiacw]

I want to increase the amount of characters in the short description for as product. Is this possible and if so where do I change it?

Cheers
Anna

[Guest]

You may be able to do it from the DB side...

[Cronos]

I want to increase the amount of characters in the short description for as product. Is this possible and if so where do I change it?

Cheers
Anna

Hi Anna,

You can write as much as you want in your short description. There is no restriction to it.

However, if you want to increase the count of the characters displayed in a title of a product, in a featured listing, then you need to do the following

Find the string in the homefeatured.tpl;

{$product.name|escape:htmlall:'UTF-8'|truncate:75}

Yeah, if there is anything else, do let us know.

Cheers..
Cronos
There are

[kiwiacw]

You can write as much as you want in your short description. There is no restriction to it.

Then why am I getting this error message when I enter text into my short description?

1 error
the field description_short (English (English)) is too long : 400 chars max (count now 416)

[Cronos]

Hi Anna,

Can you post a screenshot of your error.

Meanwhile let me look into the error you posted.

Cheers..
Cronos

[Cronos]

Hi Anna,

Can you please check the following code in your Rootfolder\Adminfolder\tabs\AdminProducts.php

Go to line 630

/* Check description short size without html */
       foreach ($languages AS $language)
           if ($value = Tools::getValue('description_short_'.$language['id_lang']))
               if (Tools::strlen(strip_tags($value)) > 400)
                   $this->_errors[] = $this->l('the field').' '.call_user_func(array($className, 'displayFieldName'), 'description_short').' ('.$language['name'].') '.$this->l('is too long').' : 400 '.$this->l('chars max').' ('.$this->l('count now').' '.Tools::strlen(strip_tags($value)).')';

You can change that 400 to which ever number greater than 400 you wish.
Lets say 600.

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Please check the following code in Rootfolder\classes\Product.php

Go to line 332

public function validateFieldsLang($die = true)
   {
       foreach ($this->description_short as $k => $value)
           if (Tools::strlen(strip_tags($value)) > 400)
           {
               if ($die) die (Tools::displayError().' ('.get_class($this).'->description: length > 400 for language '.$k.')');
               return false;
           }
       return parent::validateFieldsLang($die);
   }

Change 400 to 600 as we have done previously..

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Cheers..
Cronos

[kiwiacw]

Hi Chronos

Thats exactly what I needed...many thanks

Cheers
Anna

[Cronos]

You are welcome Anna.

Happy Prestashopping..

Cronos