How can I edit the length of product name?

[Genet]

Hello,

I have edited "truncates" in product-list.tpl, but nothing has changed.

Where can I change the length ?The product name is not showing completely.

 

Thank you!!!

[dannyd]

Is there anyone who can help with this very important issue. I think I've browsed through entire forum looking for solution. So far nada.

 

Editing product-list.tpl from themes/prestashop doesn't change a thing. I'm on prestashop 1.4.4.1

 

I find this unbelievable that there is no one who can provide a solution for this.

[dannyd]

Home page of prestashop says: "Best Open-Source E-commerce Application".

 

My question: IS IT REALLY ???

 

Since apparently it can't even properly display product titles and there is no way to change it. I've tried editing many lines with 'truncate' and it doesn't help. Apparently many other people on this forum face the same issue.

 

Maybe one of the developers can answer this one???

[PrestaShopDeveloper]

The product names are limited to 128 characters. You can always remove that limitation, but you'll need some knowledge of SQL & PHP - it can't be changed just my removing thte "truncate" modifier from the template.

[dannyd]

Thank you for your answer.

 

But there's one thing I can't understand. The original value of 'truncate' in product-list.tpl is '35'. And whether I change it to 60, 80 or 100, it's like prestashop doesn't see this and titles' length doesn't change at all. The weird part is that titles are sometimes cut at 29 characters, other time it's 24 or 33 characters.

 

I honestly give up. I really wished the product names were limited to 128 characters. That would be all I need. But I can't come anywhere near that value.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Mike Kranzler]

Hi danny,

You should be able to change the value in the "name" field of the ps_product_lang table of your database. After that, just replace the value with your new value in your classes/product.php file and that should take care of it for you.

 

I hope this helps.

 

-Mike

[dannyd]

That value is set to "varchar(128)" in my database as well as in classes/Product.php. I set "truncate" to 128 in product-list.tpl

 

So it is my understanding that product names should be 128 characters long. However, they are shortened at around 30 characters.

 

Does language version of prestashop have anything to do with it? Mine is polish.

 

Thx.

[Mike Kranzler]

Hi danny,

 

In your theme's product-list.tpl file, locate the following line (should be around line 42 in v1.4.6.2)

{$product.name|truncate:35:'...'|escape:'htmlall':'UTF-8'}

 

and increase the truncate value from 35 to whatever you would like it to be.

 

Please let me know if this works for you.

 

-Mike

[emanuelt]

I am a novice in Prestashop but this worked for me:

You have to force Smarty to recompile the new changed values.

Go to Back Office > Preferences > Performance. In Smarty force compile. Check if is OK now, and them disable force compile for speed.

 

I hope I was helpful.

[dannyd]

I am a novice in Prestashop but this worked for me:

You have to force Smarty to recompile the new changed values.

Go to Back Office > Preferences > Performance. In Smarty force compile. Check if is OK now, and them disable force compile for speed.

 

I hope I was helpful.

 

It seems like that was it !!!

Thank you big time.

 

I would put 'SOLVED' in the topic's title but I'm not the author.

[Mike Kranzler]

 

It seems like that was it !!!

Thank you big time.

 

I would put 'SOLVED' in the topic's title but I'm not the author.

 

If we can get Genet to confirm that this worked for him as well, I'll be happy to mark this thread as solved.

 

-Mike

[mobilafitness]

worked for , thanks!

[nspinheiro]

Hi. I get this old post because for incresing the truncate value does not solve it, i need it to continue to a second line.

 

How can i add this second line?

 

Thanks

[vekia]

what ps version, what theme ?

[nspinheiro]

This is solved, thanks

[vekia]

how you solved it? where the problem was?

[nspinheiro]

I had to change the global.css:

 

From

 

ul.product_list h5{

    overflow: hidden;

    white-space: nowrap;

    font-size: 1.2em;

 

To 

 

ul.product_list h5{

    overflow: hidden;

    white-space: wrap;

    font-size: 1.2em;

min-height : 44px;

    max-height: 44px;

 

 

This way it didnt wrap the text. The Height has to be set like this for all products to be align.

[StrangeAttractor]

The product names are limited to 128 characters. You can always remove that limitation, but you'll need some knowledge of SQL & PHP - it can't be changed just my removing thte "truncate" modifier from the template.

 

I have removed (just increasing the numbers did seemingly no effect) all and every truncate thing I could find and changed `ps_product_lang`.`name` (as well as `ps_product_lang`.`meta_title`) type from VARCHAR(128) to VARCHAR(255). Although removing the truncates has improved the things greatly,the 128-character product title limitation is still there (I have got a couple of goods that don't fit: one with 133-symbol-long name and another with 152-symbol-long). PrestaShop still refuses longer titles (via CSV import as well as via the products catalog interface). There seem to be some validation stuff with this limit hard-coded somewhere, I am going to try to find it...

[StrangeAttractor]

There seem to be some validation stuff with this limit hard-coded somewhere, I am going to try to find it...

 

Looks like it's in the \classes\Product.php file...

'name' => array('type' => self::TYPE_STRING, 'lang' => true, 'validate' => 'isCatalogName', 'required' => true, 'size' => 128),

PS: Thanks G-d (and the authors) PrestaShop has source code and database structure this sane, it really is the best thing I like about PrestaShop (although there still are things that seem mysterious to me like some parameters (like ggoods additional shipping costs) keeping their old values (where the heck is this data remembered? I have turned all the caches I could find off!) after I change them in the database using SQL). Edited October 7, 2014 by StrangeAttractor (see edit history)