(SOLVED) Product truncate in category - possible to set height to 2 lines?

[robbie007]

When increasing the truncate of product-list.tpl titles display on 1 or 2 rows/lines. Short ones on 1 row and longer ones on 2 rows. It's doesn't look great on the screen because there are differences in height.

 

So you can increase truncate, but why not increasing titles default to 2 rows as well???

 

Edited January 12, 2015 by robbie007 (see edit history)

[PascalVG]

robbie, can you give a link to your site? You can normally change things with css to give the product boxes a fixed height, but easiest to help when seeing the site.

 

What PS version do you use?

 

pascal.

[vekia]

 

 

So you can increase truncate, but why not increasing titles default to 2 rows as well???

truncating is not based on rows but on number of chars, some chars are wider that others, for example "W" is much wider than "i".

this is why it generating problems related to "width" of the title.

you have to use monospaced font...

[robbie007]

Thanks for the replies guys! As PascalVG mentioned you can solve it the easy way with CSS and tweek a bit with the truncate.

 

Will mark this one as solved

[henryyao]

how can I use truncate with unicode characters? I set truncate to 20, but it doesn't seem the same across these names....

Edited January 26, 2015 by henryyao (see edit history)

[vekia]

can you show what is the difference? i don't understand the problem you have well

[henryyao]

Hi Vekia,

 

Here is a link to my website (sorry for the chinese), but I think it should be clear enough to show my issue: some of the products show the name a lot longer than the others. I set the truncate all to 20 and I expect them to show the same number of unicode characters before "...".

 

http://www.yaoay.com/zh/31-%E6%8A%A4%E8%82%A4%E4%BF%9D%E5%85%BB?p=2

[henryyao]

Also, on a related topic, as you can see there are so many results with "mediheal" in the title, but when I search for "mediheal", only 6 results show. Do you have any clue how to fix that?

[PascalVG]

Henry,

 

Truncate by default tries to truncate by whole word. So if you have for example a var $productName with some long words, like:

 

(Truncate at 15: {$productName|truncate:15:"..."}    )

 

   "Green automobile",

 

it will show only

 

   "Green..."

 

as when including the word automobile, it would be too long (16 characters))

 

If you want to truncate by exactly the amount of characters, you can add a third parameter, like:

 

   {$productName|truncate:15:"...":true}

 

In above sample, this would result in 

 

   "Green automobil..."

 

For more info, see here

 

Hope this helps,

pascal.

[PascalVG]

Henry,

About the search: Prestashop indexes words or product names (and description etc). When searching, it looks for words that start with the search string:

 

 

say Product name:  "Green Automobile"

 

PS indexes the words:

1) Green

2) Automobile

 

When searching for : "Aut" this product will be found

but when searching for "mobi"

This product won't be found, as no indexed word starts with mobi

 

To solve it, maybe you can add a space character before the English words, so that they will be indexed separately, instead of together with the Chinese characters before them.

 

if that won't work, there is some workaround here:https://www.prestashop.com/forums/topic/280306-native-prestashop-search-module-issuessolved-casesimprovementsother/?do=findComment&comment=1434584

 

But be careful, as the solution might slow down search considerably with databases with many products/long descriptions etc. (Read the whole thread to get an idea of the problems encountered then)

 

 

Hope this helps,

pascal