How to truncate title by # of characters, instead of # of words?

[noesac]

I have been modifying the truncate variable in homefeatured.tpl:

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

It works most of the time, but occasionally it's not enough:

http://i48.tinypic.com/rap3lc.jpg


I think that truncating based on characters and not words might help with this issue, so I'm interested in experimenting.

EXAMPLE:

FULL TITLE: "LEVIS JEANS LARGE SIZE BLUE COLOUR"

CURRENTLY TRUNCATED LIKE: "LEVIS JEANS LARGE..."

WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO EXPERIMENT WITH: "LEVIS JEANS LA..."

Any ideas how I do this?

[eltitos]

you changed the truncate of the link's title not of the display text

{$product.name|truncate:32:'...'|escape:'htmlall':'UTF-8'}

[noesac]

Hi there, yes it's the title that I want to truncate (on the front page, Featured Products)

[eltitos]

copy my previous code, it will be ok

[noesac]

thanks Eltitos, is it possible that you pasted the wrong code? that's the same one as mine

[eltitos]

no it's working, i just tried again.

empty your browser cache.

[rocky]

You can use code like the following:

<a href="{$product.link}" title="{$product.name|substr:0:32|escape:'htmlall':'UTF-8'|trim}{if $product.name|strlen > 32}...{/if}">{$product.name|substr:0:27|escape:'htmlall':'UTF-8'|trim}{if $product.name|strlen > 27}...{/if}

This code will truncate the product title to 32 characters and link text to 27 characters, then trim any spaces, then add '...' on the end.

[noesac]

Thanks Rocky, is there an IF tag missing from the front of that?

I got this error:

Fatal error: Smarty error: [in /home/testsite/public_html/modules/homefeatured/homefeatured.tpl line 25]: syntax error: unclosed tag \{foreach} (opened line 24). (Smarty_Compiler.class.php, line 317) in /home/testsite/public_html/tools/smarty/Smarty.class.php on line 1095

[rocky]

The PrestaShop forums deleted part of my code again. :roll:

I've fixed my code above.

[noesac]

That did the trick, thanks again Rocky!

To everyone else - I didn't know how this would look...but I just tested it with 20 products on my front page and it looks fine (I was worried truncating words in half might look unusual but nothing to worry about)

[noesac]

Hi Rocky I also want to apply this to the "in same category" slide bar (productscategory.tpl).

I think I would need to change:

getProductLink($categoryProduct.id_product, $categoryProduct.link_rewrite, $categoryProduct.category)}" title="{$categoryProduct.name|htmlspecialchars}">
           {$categoryProduct.name|truncate:15:'...'|escape:'htmlall':'UTF-8'}

To:

getProductLink($categoryProduct.id_product, $categoryProduct.link_rewrite, $categoryProduct.category)}" title="{$categoryProduct.name|substr:0:32|escape:'htmlall':'UTF-8'|trim}"{if $categoryProduct.name|strlen > 32}...{/if}">{$categoryProduct.name|substr:0:22|escape:'htmlall':'UTF-8'|trim}{if $categoryProduct.name|strlen > 22}...{/if}

Does that look right?

[rocky]

The forum deleted some of your code, but otherwise it looks fine.

[noesac]

Fantastic thanks Rocky, I just tried to edit the post in case anyone else wants to use it in the future. Hopefully that fixed it.

[rocky]

It didn't work. The trick is to rewrite <a href as <a href

[noesac]

I just updated the site and the code above:)

I had an extra < in the code that I needed to delete. It should be working now hopefully:)

[noesac]

UPDATE: Oh it's working now, even a shift + refresh didn't seem to work. I had to navigate out of the page then back in again!



This is really unusual, I went to clean up the code and add some comments and now it doesn't work! Any idea's what's gone wrong? Code remains as above