[SOLVED] how to truncate the short description text on the product listing page and the product page itself?

[Melinda]

Hi,

How do you truncate the short description text on the product listing page and the product page itself?

I tried changing this to 200 in the themes/*/product_listing.tpl file but it didn't work. If I try to change the amounts in classes/Product.php file it gives me an hack attempt error in the admin on that product.

{$product.description_short|strip_tags:'UTF-8'|truncate:200:'...'}

Thanks!

[Melinda]

I was editing the wrong page so the product_listing.tpl file makes the text shorter on the product listing page but I cannot find how to truncate the text in the short description box on the product page itself.

[rocky]

The short description on the product page is on line 144 of product.tpl (in PrestaShop v1.3.1):

{$product->description_short}

Change it to the following to truncate it to 200 characters:

{$product->description_short|truncate:200}

[Melinda]

Thanks Rocky! It works great!